{"id":744760,"date":"2026-07-05T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744760\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:12:33","slug":"this-data-center-is-everything-that-everyone-hates-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744760\/","title":{"rendered":"This Data Center Is Everything That Everyone Hates About AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

But O\u2019Leary\u2019s promises have done nothing to dampen local opposition to Stratos. In fact, opposition intensified throughout the month of May<\/a> until Utah Governor Spencer Cox\u2014who had initially backed the project<\/a> when O\u2019Leary met with him in January 2026\u2014signed an executive order on May 29<\/a> to ensure that the state properly evaluates data center proposals. While the Stratos Project was not specifically mentioned in the order, the timing of the announcement, coupled with the significant statewide pushback to the project, showed it was clearly an inflection point. Less than a week later, O\u2019Leary agreed to significantly scale back<\/a> the proposed data center from 40,000 acres to just over 20,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are concerned about data centers,\u201d Cox said<\/a> in a press conference, \u201cthey\u2019re concerned about the lake, they\u2019re concerned about resources, and they should be concerned.\u201d <\/p>\n

So, six months after the supposed \u201cindustrial marvel\u201d of the Stratos Project was introduced, the results have been an angry local community, an embarrassed investor, and a local state government belatedly searching for a sensible framework with which to govern data center growth. The backlash has not stopped yet, either. On June 23, Utah state Senate President J. Stuart Adams<\/a>, who was also the chairman of the Utah agency that initially approved Stratos, lost his Senate seat to a rival who explicitly criticized his support of O\u2019Leary\u2019s project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But O\u2019Leary\u2019s promises have done nothing to dampen local opposition to Stratos. In fact, opposition intensified throughout the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-744760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}