Data Center Registry
Stratos AI Data Center Campus
Lucin, Box Elder County, Utah
Stratos AI Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Lucin, Utah (Box Elder County), operated by O'Leary Digital. The public record puts it at announced April 2026, 9 GW planned, 40,000 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- O'Leary Digital
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Lucin, Box Elder County, UT
- Coordinates
- 41.5000, -113.5000
- Power capacity
- 9 GW planned
- Land
- 40,000 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- April 2026
- Utility
- Raft Rural Electric Co-op Inc
- Power source
- On site gas
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- April 2026ProposedMIDA Board approved Stratos Project Area on April 24, 2026; Box Elder County Commission approved interlocal agreement May 4, 2026 Source: Box Elder County, UT
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Stratos AI Data Center Campus in Lucin, Box Elder County, Utah is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Community opposition over fast-tracked MIDA process, CO2 emissions (~34M metric tons/year at full build), light/noise pollution, and Great Salt Lake impacts.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
Community opposition over fast-tracked MIDA process, CO2 emissions (~34M metric tons/year at full build), light/noise pollution, and Great Salt Lake impacts. Utah Senate President called for 75% footprint reduction; O'Leary agreed to cut acreage by 50% (remove ~20,000 acres). Governor Cox ordered 'careful consideration' of environmental impacts.
Power and water
Ruby Pipeline (680-mile interstate natural gas line) runs through Hansel Valley; 3,000-acre solar array planned; fully off-grid design
Closed-loop system using on-site saline water described as unsuitable for human or agricultural use; developer states no diversion from Great Salt Lake basin
Notes on the record
Hansel Valley and Locomotive Valley, western Box Elder County near Lucin, UT. 60 planned data centers on initial 10,000-acre phase. 9GW is full-buildout figure; Phase 1 ~3GW. Total cost projected $100B+ at full buildout; only $20M invested as of mid-2026. Designed by Gensler. Environmental permitting via Utah DEQ expected to take ~2 years. MIDA oversight provides state-level approval authority. Coordinates are approximate for western Box Elder County; exact site boundaries unpublished. Subsidies checked at the municipal tier (2026-09-05): no site-level subsidy found. Box Elder County's own Stratos Project Fact Sheet states directly: "No County funds are required to build the project. All funds will come from the developers and private investors." A May 2026 MIDA interlocal agreement covers land-use and permitting review governance (a development review committee, subdivision/site-plan requirements), not a tax-increment or abatement arrangement, and MIDA's own project-area records, which could confirm or rule out a tax-increment component, were unreachable this session (mida.utah.gov redirected to an unrelated login page). Utah's EDTIF programme excludes data centres and the UCA 59-12-104 exemption is self-executing.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Stratos AI Data Center Campus in Lucin?
Yes. Stratos AI Data Center Campus in Lucin, Box Elder County, Utah is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Community opposition over fast-tracked MIDA process, CO2 emissions (~34M metric tons/year at full build), light/noise pollution, and Great Salt Lake impacts.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Stratos AI Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over Stratos AI Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of July 23, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Stratos AI Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Stratos AI Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Stratos AI Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
O'Leary Digital is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 9 GW. The site is recorded at 40000 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Stratos AI Data Center Campus," updated July 23, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stratos-box-elder-ut.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/stratos-box-elder-ut, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Stratos Project Fact Sheet, Box Elder County · Box Elder County, UT · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Renderings show Stratos data center but permits could take years · Utah News Dispatch · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
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