Utah's economy and environment will suffer if Stratos Data Center is built

 Collected impacts of Stratos project exposed-a random collection

Thank you creator of this infographic. Weber County Women's Caucus

Data centers AND gas-powered power plants use a LOT of water.  Yet: 

Utah's water situation is in crisis.  We are in severe to extreme drought across the entire state.

Roughly 2000 Utahns came to have their voices heard in opposition to the Stratos Project.  their leaders disrespected them, threatened to have them arrested, and then fled their own public meeting.

Desiccated lakes look like this.  IT is grim.

NOTICE:  None of these MIDA people have technical or environmental or hazards training. Call them out.  They have been allowed to act without oversight.

MIDA built a luxury hotel using our tax moneys.  They pretended to be helping the military.  

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Stuart Adams "just happened" to get his largest ever political donations 7 days after latest MIDA fraud plan was approved.

See Reporting by Bryan Schott here.

The bottom line.  Utah's GOP leadership hatched the project plan before they shopped it around and asked O'Leary to lead it.

Cox, Adams, Stevenson, and many others in the Utah legislature assumed that you and I would roll over to yet another scam that harms the state, steals our tax money for the SOLE benefit of insiders.

Thank you to the creator of this graphic.

Utah's GOP LEADERSHIP is steeped in corruption and fraud: Stratos reveals a pattern of self-dealing

 Stratos Project in a nutshell:

SOURCE: centers https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/pro-con-moratorium-needed-to-pause-the-attack-of-data-centers

Summary: Public statements by Stratos boosters are:

• aspirational boasts,

• magical thinking,

• unscientific,

• physics-defying claims,

• engineering “misunderstandings”,

• in conflicts with prior claims and documents,

• and mostly a lot of down-right lies.

• Promises of economic benefits appear to be very overblown when one considers the CONSIDERABLE experience of other communities.

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• Very little actual insight or technical planning appears to support the wild claims and propaganda being pushed by boosters. 

• Check the information HERE.

   

Sign an open letter opposing the Stratos project here:

Military benefits appear to be a ruse:

• CRITICALLY: There is zero military land in the footprint of the project that was revealed originally to the public (map created on April 27, 2026).  

A later updated map MAY include a tiny smidge of land about 45 miles to the south.

Stratos Project was reported to be entirely north of the Great Salt Lake.....

Until the press and or public dug into the false-claim of military land being in the project area. 

At that point, it appears, the smidge of Utah Trust land and maybe military land (????) ~45 miles away was hastily added.  

Kevin O'Leary exposes that Utah Leader came to him with this outrageous plan about 5 months ago.  That was roughly in November of 2025. 

Negative impacts of the Stratos Project on Utah and our region are so enormous that no infographic can capture them all.  Here is one attempt:

Weber County Women's Caucus shared this and maybe created the infographic.  Let us know the creator if this is incorrect.

This definitive web site exposes true facts

 and information through April 30, 2026.  CLICK THROUGH OTHER MENUS to see the money trail, the questions that remain unanswered, and much more.

The single (not really public) meeting about MIDA was on April 24th, 2026.  A recording of the meeting reveals almost no technical insights, zero environmental discussions and PLENTY OF SELF-CONGRATULATORY DISCUSSION ABOUT HOOD-WINKING THE UTAH PUBLIC. 

Here is the recorded meeting.  Start at about minute 30.

They claimed that military land was in the footprint to the Stratos Project.

See the official release of information here:

The Salt Lake Tribune's editorial board explains the problem extremely well:

"Even if the data center isn’t as dreadful as feared — or if it never is actually built — the stench attached to the rushed and secret political process will take a very long time to dissipate. If it ever does."

We completely agree.

Utah's GOP leadership must be voted out of office.

DATA CENTER CORRUPTION AND FRAUD EXPLAINED: General view

 

DID UTAH POLITICIANS USE THIS PLAY BOOK?

CHARLIE BERENS AND DANIEL VAN DIRK EXPLAIN:

 

HOW AI DATA CENTERS WERE INVENTED

THIERE IS ZERO MILITARY ASPECT OF THE STRATOS PROJECT.  Claims of a military role are faked. 

GOVERNOR COX MUST THINK THAT UTAH VOTERS ARE IDIOTS AND SUCKERS.

UTAH GOP LEADERSHIP MUST THINK THAT UTAH VOTERS ARE IDIOT AND SUCKERS.

ARE WE?

KEY POINTS:

MASS SURVEILLANCE ISN'T FREE