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Box Elder data center making progress despite protests

Cooling fans for the data center of the Davis Landfill’s Bitcoin mining site in Layton on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Utah lawmakers are grappling with different ways to power high energy users like data centers.
Trent Nelson
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The Salt Lake Tribune
Cooling fans for the data center of the Davis Landfill’s Bitcoin mining site in Layton on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Utah lawmakers are grappling with different ways to power high energy users like data centers.

KUER reporter Hugo Rikard-Bell joins KPCW's Grace Doerfler to recap all of the developments in the progress of the contentious Box Elder data center. Both Doerfler and Rikard-Bell have been following the story from the beginning. Listen to learn what we know so far and where the project is expected to head next.

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