Residents worry proposed Box Elder County data center could transform the ‘mythical American West’
On gravel roads between Interstate 15 and the site of a proposed data center, you see more cows than people.
(Megan Banta | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rhonda Lauritzen points to where the water used to come up to land her family owns on the north arm of the Great Salt Lake during a tour of multiple sites in and near the project area for the proposed Stratos data center project on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.