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The Stratos Project

A proposed 9 GW data-center and natural-gas power campus on 40,000 acres in western Box Elder County.

The project, in numbers
62 square miles 40,000 acres
9 gigawatt power system
4.24B gallons of water / year = 13,000 AF/yr · actual demand not published
Stratos vs. every Utah data center combined
3× bigger at Phase 1
10× bigger at full buildout
All 48 Utah data centers combined draw ~920 MW. Stratos Phase 1 = 3,000 MW. Full = 9,000 MW.
Prior completed data-center or power projects by the private developers 0
Still publicly unresolved
Actual water demand Not published
Environmental impact Not published
Military use Not identified
Job & revenue clawback Not identified
County authority after consent Unclear
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Current concerns

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Final consent on the Stratos Project Area sits with three Box Elder County commissioners. Personally written messages from constituents are part of the record commissioners are expected to consider; form letters and AI-generated boilerplate dilute that record.

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Dig into the details.

The infographic above is the summary. Each topic below has its own page with the full breakdown, primary sources, and meeting citations.

Map

See the 40,000-acre footprint and the parcels MIDA has identified, on an interactive Box Elder County map.

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Scale

How big is Stratos in power, gas, water, and emissions, and how does it stack up against every other Utah data center combined?

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Money

The $108M-per-year revenue claim, the tax breaks granted, and what happens to land-use control if the county consents.

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Developers New

Who is actually behind Stratos. A look at West GenCo, S&P Data Center Development, O'Leary Digital, and the four named principals: what they've built, what they haven't, and how their public web presence pre-dates the project by only weeks.

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Government New

MIDA, the state authority that becomes the land-use authority once consent is granted; SB 132 (2025), the law that makes the off-grid power model legal; and the local-tier officials at the table.

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Questions

What the Box Elder County commissioners asked at the April 22 and April 27 special meetings, and what they were told.

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Sources

Every number on this page is sourced. The full citation index, meetings, reports, agency filings, lives here.

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