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Who decides here: the City Council of Honeyville City votes on zoning. The Box Elder County may review big projects too.

Local votes and rules

⏸️ Pause on new data centers · Box Elder County

County commissioners unanimously paused new applications for data centers and data center power plants on unincorporated county land for 180 days (Ordinance 654). The pause does not cover the Stratos project, because the state's MIDA controls that land.

June 10, 2026Source

⚖️ Court case · Box Elder County

Residents (Box Elder Accountability Referendum, BEAR) asked for a public vote on the county's Stratos approvals. In May 2026 they filed two referendum applications. The county attorney said no: he called the votes 'administrative', which cannot go to a vote of the people. BEAR appealed to the 1st District Court. The county and O'Leary Digital asked the judge to throw the case out. As of mid-September 2026 the judge had not ruled, so there was no vote in November.

June 3, 2026Source

⚖️ Court case · Box Elder County

The group Alliance for a Better Utah and five unnamed residents sued MIDA, the Box Elder County Commission and two state senators who sit on the MIDA board. They say the MIDA law is unconstitutional because once a county agrees to a MIDA area, voters cannot undo it by referendum. They ask the court to stop the Stratos project.

June 3, 2026Source

✅ Approved · Box Elder County

County commissioners voted 3-0 to let the state's Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) set up the Stratos project area, about 40,000 acres in western Box Elder County, for a huge data center and power campus. They also approved a 50-year deal (interlocal agreement) with MIDA. After this vote, MIDA, not the county, controls land use there.

May 4, 2026Source
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Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Utah.