Brock Marchant

Boxelder County Commissioners Boyd Bingham and Lee Perry were among those who voted last month to let a state agency create the Stratus Project area.

This would give up the county's local land use control over the planned 20,000-acre data center campus, and both conceded defeat to challengers in the Republican primary.

Brigham City resident Brandon Black says the Stratus project pushed him not to vote for either commissioner.

I was pretty disappointed with the...

The planned data center campus has left many in the county and state worried about how much water it will use and how it will impact the environment.

For NPR News, I'm Brock Marchant in Farmington, Utah.