Trying to get the Stratos data center on the ballot, locals are now appealing to a judge
The group of citizens fighting a proposed hyperscale data center in their rural northern Utah county are taking their case to court.
The Box Elder Accountability Referendum group, or BEAR, wants voters to choose whether the project should go ahead after it got the green light from the county’s governing commission.
The citizen group on Wednesday filed an appeal in Brigham City’s 1st District Court, arguing the Box Elder County attorney got it wrong last week when he concluded he had to deny their applications for a referendum. BEAR alleges he did so “as counsel loyal to his client, the commission.”
“We told you all this fight isn’t over, and we meant it,” Brigette Cottam of BEAR said in a statement shared Wednesday.
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/06/04/stratos-data-center-referendum-group-appeal-to-a-judge/