This Data Center Is Everything That Everyone Hates About AI ^36.6%

The New Republic - By Luke Barnes - 7/5/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 25.9% - Biased Writer Voice 19% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 17.7%

The Stratos Project was supposed to be an industrial marvel for the AI age. The proposal—a massive hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, Utah—was initially slated to be more than 2.5 times the size of the island of Manhattan. Once completed, it would use more than double the state’s average electricity demand and draw power from a... more