‘There needed to be a fight here’: How Box Elder County residents plan to stop a massive data center
An effort called the Box Elder Accountability Referendum — or BEAR — hopes to put the decision to build a data center in northern Utah to voters.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) People fill the room as the Box Elder County Commission prepared to meet on a MIDA and Kevin O'Leary data center project in Brigham City on Monday, April 27, 2026.