Box Elder County

closed 1 data center project, 1 scorecard row

9 GW disclosed across 1 project. A rating belongs to the scorecard row for this county; the events beneath it are what it rests on.

Last verified September 13, 2026

Projects on the record: 1
waiting on permits: 1
How much power is disclosed: 9 GW
What officials said: 0 statements
Sources read here: 1

Every figure above is computed from the records on this page at build time. Power is summed only where a project disclosed it; nothing is estimated.

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Pin radius is 7 pixels where capacity is not disclosed, and scales from 7 to 18 pixels between 0 and 1,000 MW where it is.

The outline is the U.S. Census Bureau boundary for Box Elder County. Pin color is status. Pin size is disclosed capacity. Hollow pins are approximate, placed at a city or county centroid because a more precise location is not in the public record.

What has been disclosed in Box Elder County

Figure	Disclosed total	Disclosed	Not disclosed	Basis
Power	9 GW	1	0	1 the developer's figure
Water, stated per day	Not disclosed	0	1
Water, stated per year	Not disclosed	0	1
Permanent jobs	Not disclosed	0	1
Tax each year	Not disclosed	0	1

Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends. Nothing here is modeled or estimated by the record.

By what the facilities are for

Use	Records	Power	Water	Jobs	Tax each year
AI, type not stated	1	9 GW	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
Cloud	1	9 GW	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed
Government and defense	1	9 GW	Not disclosed	Not disclosed	Not disclosed

A record that lists several uses counts once under each; 1 does here. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.

Third party figures on the same metrics

Numbers from outside sources on the same metric and place, shown beside the record's sums for comparison and never added to them. A figure a project disclosed about itself is in the sums above, not here. Where several sources give the same figure for the same place and year, it is one row with every source behind it (16 sources on 14 rows).

Power

400 MWSpanish Fork, Utah County, UT, 2026
2 sources
- The proposed Volition project would be a billion dollar, self powered data center that would generate between 250 and 400 megawatts of its own power using natural gas. FOX 13 News Utah (fox13now.com)
- The proposed Volition data center would generate between 250 and 400 megawatts of its own power using natural gas. KSL News (ksl.com)
9 GWStratos Project, Box Elder County, UT, 2026At full build, the Stratos Project estimates it would consume 9 gigawatts of electricity. The Christian Science Monitor (csmonitor.com)
2 GWBeaver County, UT, 2026Fervo is permitted for up to 2 gigawatts at Cape Station site. datacenterrichness.substack.com (datacenterrichness.substack.com)
1,085 MWUtah, statewide, 2026Virginia already has 7 large data center sites with a capacity of 1,085 megawatts. Cache Valley Daily (cachevalleydaily.com)
600 MWBeaver County, UT, 2026Google has option to expand agreement by 600 megawatts pushing total toward nearly 1 gigawatt by June 2030. datacenterrichness.substack.com (datacenterrichness.substack.com)
400 MWUtah, statewide, 2026Meta data center in New Albany, Ohio powered by 400MW of dedicated natural gas turbines. Utah News Dispatch (utahnewsdispatch.com)
396 MWBeaver County, UT, 2026Google signed PPA with Fervo Energy for 396 megawatts of geothermal power. datacenterrichness.substack.com (datacenterrichness.substack.com)
250 MWSpanish Fork, Utah County, UT, 2026The proposed data center would generate 250 megawatts of power on site. YouTube (youtube.com)

Water, stated per year

250,000 gal/yrSpanish Fork, UT, 2026water use, proposed closed loop site. Daily Herald, Cougar Chronicle (heraldextra.com)

Permanent jobs

10,000 jobsStratos Project, Box Elder County, UT, 2026Project backers cited roughly 10,000 construction jobs and 2,000 permanent positions. Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com)
5 percentUtah, statewide, 2026A Brookings Institution study of more than 700 data centers nationwide found that counties receiving their first large data center experienced a 4 to 5 percent increase in total private employment over five to six years. Cache Valley Daily (cachevalleydaily.com)

Tax each year

2,000,000,000 USDUtah, statewide, 2026
2 sources
- Hypothetical $2 billion data center with $1.5 billion worth of personal property can substantially reduce tax rate of counties during first year. Utah News Dispatch (utahnewsdispatch.com)
- Research from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah found that a $2 billion data center could represent more than 20% of the existing property tax base in 21 Utah counties. Cache Valley Daily (cachevalleydaily.com)
4,000,000,000 USDSpanish Fork, Utah County, UT, 2026Volition CEO Jeff Chavez claimed the facility would have on site value over $4 billion and generate at least $40 million in annual tax revenue. Daily Herald (via Google News) (heraldextra.com)
44,000,000 USDSpanish Fork, Utah County, UT, 2026Volition said the facility would generate around $44 million in tax revenue for the city, school district and taxing entities. KSL News (ksl.com)

What the facilities are for

Use	Facilities	Share of facilities	Attributed MW	Share of attributed MW
AI, type not stated	1	100%	Not disclosed
Cloud	1	100%	Not disclosed
Government and defense	1	100%	Not disclosed
Split between uses not disclosed	1		9 GW	100%

1 facility in Box Elder County. 1 lists more than one use and counts under each, so the facility column can sum past the total. Capacity is attributed to a use only where a source states the share, or where a facility lists a single use. Nothing is divided by estimate.

Projects

waiting on permitsStratos Project
O'Leary Digital and the Military Installation Development Authority propose a data center campus with an onsite natural gas power plant on about 40,000 acres of unincorporated land in Hansel Valley, north of the Great Salt Lake, after Box Elder County commissioners consented to the MIDA project area on 2026-05-04.
Box Elder County · 9 GW · Last verified September 13, 2026

Box Elder County, year by year

On the record as of September 13, 2026.

The chart counts what is on the record: 1 published project in Box Elder County, with 23 dated events, 2 of them jurisdiction actions. A project counts in a year by the status its history shows at the end of that year, and its capacity, water and noise figures are the ones disclosed for it now, applied to every year it is on the record. Capacity is summed only where a source disclosed it; the count of projects without a disclosed figure sits beside every sum. A year with nothing on it has nothing on the record yet, which is not the same as nothing having happened.

Operational Under construction Announced, proposed, permitting or approved Milestone, one dot per flagged event Tap a year or a dot to open that year. Stalled and cancelled projects stay in the yearly totals below and off the bars.

Narrow the events in every year

Use All AI, type not stated 21Cloud 21Government and defense 21

Topics are matched from the words of each summary and are a finding aid, not a fact about the event. Counts in the chart do not change with the filters.

2026 1 project on the record at year end, 23 events

At the end of 2026

Operational: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Under construction: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Announced, proposed, permitting or approved: 1 project, 9 GW disclosed

Capacity, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 1 project on the record.

Water, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 1 project on the record.

Noise, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 1 project on the record.

Sound levels are not summed. The range is the lowest and highest level a source stated.

Events in 2026

May 4, 2026 (content date) Other Box Elder County (jurisdiction): Box Elder County commissioners voted unanimously to consent to the Stratos MIDA project area at a special meeting where about 1,100 people gathered and a referendum effort formed within days. Source, local outlet
May 4, 2026 (content date) Otherapproved Stratos Project : Box Elder County commissioners voted unanimously for two resolutions consenting to a Military Installation Development Authority project area for a 40,000 acre data center campus with its own natural gas power plant, at a special meeting attended by about 1,100 people. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 5, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The first water right change application for the project, filed by the landowner to move water from irrigation to industrial use, was withdrawn, and the company said it would refile with additional supporting information. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 8, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Kevin O'Leary told CNN that developers had invested about 20 million dollars, would seek letters of intent from tenants and further investment for a project that could cost more than 100 billion dollars, and aimed to have the first gigawatt operating within two years. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 11, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The Box Elder Accountability Referendum filed two referendum applications to put the county commission's approval before voters, which would require 5,422 signatures in 45 days if the applications were accepted. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 14, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Demonstrators rallied at the Utah Capitol and delivered a letter signed by about 6,000 people asking Governor Spencer Cox to take binding action on the Great Salt Lake and the project. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 22, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The second water right change application for the project, filed by Murray Hollow L.C., was withdrawn by a notice dated May 22 that gave no reason, after nearly 700 protest letters had been filed against it. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 23, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Hundreds of people rallied on the Utah Capitol steps demanding a halt to the project, with speakers raising air quality, greenhouse gas and water supply concerns. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
May 28, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Box Elder County Attorney Stephen R. Hadfield rejected three referendum applications, finding the commission's resolutions were administrative actions that cannot be referred to voters under Utah law. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
June 10, 2026 (content date) Other Box Elder County (jurisdiction): Box Elder County commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance imposing a 180 day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated land while the county studies zoning and development standards. Source, local outlet
June 10, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Box Elder County commissioners passed a 180 day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated county land, which county officials said does not apply to the Stratos project area under MIDA's land use authority. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 13, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : O'Leary agreed to cut the project by half to 20,000 acres after public outcry Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 13, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The project was initially proposed at 40,000 acres Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 19, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Stratos project was originally pitched at up to 9 gigawatts across a 40,000 acre site near the Great Salt Lake Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
August 20, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Governor Spencer Cox said at his monthly news conference that the Stratos approval process was not good and that he would push legislation to reform the Military Installation Development Authority, including a larger role for the governor's office. Source, local outlet . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 20, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Litigation over referendum challenging Box Elder County Commission's vote to consent to MIDA project area has complicated future of Stratos Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 20, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Cox proposed changes to MIDA in 2025 but they did not pass Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
August 20, 2026 (content date) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The Military Installation Development Authority gave an initial green light to the Stratos data center project in Box Elder County Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 21, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Another fire is burning north of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 21, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The Salt Wells Fire is burning in Box Elder County's Hansel Valley, where the Stratos data center and energy campus is planned Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported August 27, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : A hyperscale data center was proposed in Box Elder County and faced opposition Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported September 1, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : The Stratos Project is set to take over 20,000 acres of desert brush and farmland in Box Elder County, abutting the Great Salt Lake Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital
Reported September 1, 2026 (source date; the content gives no date of its own) Otherwaiting on permits Stratos Project : Kevin O'Leary, backed by investor, plans to rename Hansel Valley to Wonder Valley Source, query feed . Developer O'Leary Digital

Close 2026

2025 0 projects on the record at year end, 0 events

At the end of 2025

Operational: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Under construction: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Announced, proposed, permitting or approved: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed

Capacity, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Water, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Noise, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Sound levels are not summed. The range is the lowest and highest level a source stated.

Events in 2025

No dated event on the record in 2025.

Close 2025

2024 0 projects on the record at year end, 0 events

At the end of 2024

Operational: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Under construction: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Announced, proposed, permitting or approved: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed

Capacity, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Water, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Noise, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Sound levels are not summed. The range is the lowest and highest level a source stated.

Events in 2024

No dated event on the record in 2024.

Close 2024

2023 0 projects on the record at year end, 0 events

At the end of 2023

Operational: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Under construction: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed
Announced, proposed, permitting or approved: 0 projects, 0 MW disclosed

Capacity, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Water, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Noise, by how it was disclosed

Not disclosed for any of the 0 projects on the record.

Sound levels are not summed. The range is the lowest and highest level a source stated.

Events in 2023

No dated event on the record in 2023.

Close 2023

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Scorecard

Each rating is derived from the dated events beneath it, never typed in. Events are listed newest first with their source.

Box Elder Countycountyclosed
Box Elder County commissioners consented to the Stratos MIDA project area on 2026-05-04 over organized opposition, then on 2026-06-10 passed a 180 day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated land that the county says does not reach the Stratos area.
Ordinance imposing a 180 day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated land, June 10, 2026. upr.org, local outlet
1. June 10, 2026 (content date)moratoriumclosed
  Box Elder County commissioners unanimously passed an ordinance imposing a 180 day moratorium on new data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated land while the county studies zoning and development standards.
  upr.org, local outlet
2. May 4, 2026 (content date)agreementrestrictive
  Box Elder County commissioners voted unanimously to consent to the Stratos MIDA project area at a special meeting where about 1,100 people gathered and a referendum effort formed within days.
  utahnewsdispatch.com, local outlet
Last verified September 13, 2026

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Place id: us/ut/box-elder-county
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Census GEOID: 49003
Rating value: red
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