There’s a mysterious Utah agency behind that proposed huge data center. Here’s how MIDA works.

The group has backed projects ranging from a luxury slopeside hotel to an aerospace research park. Its hyperscale plan in Box Elder County is its most contentious ever.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Utah locations that are under MIDA jurisdiction or have received funding, clockwise from top left: The Grand Hyatt hotel at Deer Valley's East Village; the Dugway Proving Ground; the Utah Data Center in Bluffdale; and the Falcon Hill research park at Hill Air Force Base.

There’s a mysterious Utah agency behind that proposed huge data center. Here’s how MIDA works.

The group has backed projects ranging from a luxury slopeside hotel to an aerospace research park. Its hyperscale plan in Box Elder County is its most contentious ever.

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