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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah

A gravel road stretches through a prairie with mountains in the distance.
The area where the Stratos project is proposed to be built, in Box Elder county, Utah, on 15 May 2026. Photograph: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Utah residents have teamed up with a progressive non-profit organization to sue over an under-development AI datacenter backed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary, claiming the planned Stratos project facility “irrevocably” cuts off citizens’ rights by not allowing sufficient public input.

Filed by the Alliance for a Better Utah and five unnamed residents of the Box Elder county area where the center is being developed, the lawsuit comes as Shark Tank co-host O’Leary agreed to scale back the physical footprint for the project.

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