What the Box Elder County Data Center could mean for Utah 83%

5/5/2026, 8:17:18 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 27% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 138 faulty-reasoning hits from 141 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75.9% and a BS Rank of 83% (2,854 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.00% of the article peer group.

Dubbed the Stratos Project, the data center is the brainchild of Kevin O'Leary, a Canadian businessman and former "Shark Tank" star, who says the facility will rely on the "best technology." 
When brought fully online, the data center is projected to generate and use nearly double the amount of power already consumed by the entire state of Utah. 
It will also require enough water to support 20,000 local homes. 
Salt Lake Tribune reporter Samantha Moilanen and Atlantic staff writer Matteo Wong will join us to talk about the controversy surrounding the data center and what it means for local communities when hyperscale data centers come to town. 
GUESTS  
Samantha Moilanen | reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune 
Matteo Wong | Staff writer for The Atlantic 
Airdate: May 7, 2026 
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
27%
Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
27%
Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
22%
Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
22%
False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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141 words analyzed.

Analysis

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