A massive data center in Utah has gained approval.
“The three-member Box Elder County Commission voted unanimously Monday to approve the massive energy and data campus backed by Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority and celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary,” The Salt Lake Tribune reports.
The multibillion-dollar ‘hyperscale’ project would be constructed on 40,000 acres in unincorporated Box Elder County, where every private landowner has agreed to the use of their land.
The project would also utilize an additional 1,200 acres that include a section of the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), which is a Department of Defense site, and property owned by the Utah Trust Lands Administration.
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MIDA approved the project late last month. The commission’s vote allows MIDA to create the project area — which is mostly made up of privately owned, unincorporated land within the county — where
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