A progressive nonprofit and five Utah residents have filed a lawsuit against government officials and a special entity overseeing Kevin O’Leary’s planned Stratos Project data center, alleging that Box Elder County residents’ rights were violated.
The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Utah’s 3rd District Court by the Alliance for a Better Utah and the group of anonymous residents.
Attorney David Irvine, who is representing the plaintiffs, alleges that MIDA is exercising powers as an unelected body that “the Utah Constitution never authorized.”.
Utah Senate Deputy Chief of Staff Aundrea Peterson said Adams and his staff are reviewing the lawsuit.
A spokesperson for Box Elder County said that officials have not been formally served with court filings.
The original data center proposal included building a 40,000-acre AI data center campus in Utah’s Hansel Valley.
Two days earlier, Adams had sent him a letter requesting a 75% reduction in the size of the data center. »