{"id":23405,"date":"2026-06-07T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/suit-filed-against-controversial-planned-stratos-datacenter-project-in-utah\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T09:37:23","slug":"suit-filed-against-controversial-planned-stratos-datacenter-project-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/suit-filed-against-controversial-planned-stratos-datacenter-project-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plan backed by Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary had footprint reduced but concerns remain over its health impacts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/utah\">Utah<\/a> residents have teamed up with a progressive non-profit organization to sue over an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/jun\/04\/how-the-insatiable-thirst-of-datacenters-is-leaving-communities-across-the-us-high-and-dry\">under-development AI datacenter<\/a> backed by celebrity investor Kevin O\u2019Leary, claiming the planned Stratos project facility \u201cirrevocably\u201d cuts off citizens\u2019 rights by not allowing sufficient public input.<\/p>\n<p>Filed by the Alliance for a Better Utah and five unnamed residents of the Box Elder county area where the center is being developed, the lawsuit comes as Shark Tank co-host O\u2019Leary agreed to scale back the physical footprint for the project.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/06\/stratos-datacenter-utah-suit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c718370b4e39a4654e250c2a7a1d75898c0823e3\/333_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f804b4bcaa5e178cd085c1898f4b0ee5\" title=\"Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah\" \/>Plan backed by Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary had footprint reduced but concerns remain over its health impacts<br \/>\nUtah residents have teamed up with a progressive non-profit organization to sue over an under-development AI datacenter backed by celebrity investor Kevin O\u2019Leary, claiming the planned Stratos project facility \u201cirrevocably\u201d cuts off citizens\u2019 rights by not allowing sufficient public input.<br \/>\nFiled by the Alliance for a Better Utah and five unnamed residents of the Box Elder county area where the center is being developed, the lawsuit comes as Shark Tank co-host O\u2019Leary agreed to scale back the physical footprint for the project. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan backed by Shark Tank\u2019s Kevin O\u2019Leary had footprint reduced but concerns remain over its health impacts Utah residents have teamed up with a progressive non-profit organization to sue over an under-development AI datacenter backed by celebrity investor Kevin O\u2019Leary, claiming the planned Stratos project facility \u201cirrevocably\u201d cuts off citizens\u2019 rights by not allowing sufficient &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/suit-filed-against-controversial-planned-stratos-datacenter-project-in-utah\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}