Data Centers

Salt Lake Tribune reporters Samantha Moilanen and Tamarra Kemsley and data columnist Andy Larsen talk about the week’s top stories, including the meeting for the Box Elder County data center project.

Our hosts discuss the Republican Party's political strategy going into the midterm elections, the demise of Spirit Airlines, and the battle over a 63 square mile data center in Box Elder County.

In other news, The King's English Bookshop cancelled its promotion of Gov. Spencer Cox's new book just two days after first announcing it.

On Monday, the Box Elder County Commission voted in favor of a controversial data center project — an undertaking that would create the largest single data center campus in the U.S.

Salt Lake Tribune editor Sean Means and reporter Addy Baird talk about the week’s top stories, including Box Elder County delaying a vote on a hyperscale data center, and more.

About 1,500 data centers are in various stages of planning or development nationwide. Instead of staying in the existing hubs, many are being built in rural areas that don't already have data centers.

This year, Utah passed a law that requires data centers to provide an estimate of their future water use. However, conservationists say that actual water use records are still kept secret.