EPISODE · May 14, 2026 · 10 MIN
It's Illegal To Say No. They Won.
from Loyal Moses on Odysee · host Loyal Moses
We can't stop what's coming! 1,100 people drove to and packed a county fairgrounds in rural Utah. The commissioners went into a back room, voted in private, and broadcast the result on a projector screen like it was a movie.Join our community: https://community.loyalmoses.comThe vote: Unanimous. 3–0.The Stratos Project is a proposed 40,000-acre data center campus in Box Elder County, Utah — larger than Bryce Canyon National Park, powered by its own natural gas pipeline, and designed to consume 9 gigawatts of electricity. The entire state of Utah currently uses about 4.This isn't a video about whether data centers are good or bad. They are the future. AI is not a trend — it's a disruptive technology, the same way the internet was 30 years ago. We need this infrastructure. This is about what happened when 1,100 people showed up to be heard — and a commissioner said from the podium that their vote didn't matter anyway."If I vote no, this project could still move forward using different means to accomplish their goal." — Commissioner Boyd Bingham, May 4, 2026---SOURCES:Commissioner Bingham's full quote — Utah Public Radio:https://www.upr.org/politics/2026-05-06/box-elder-data-centerSenator Sandall's property tax quote — ABC4:https://www.abc4.com/news/northern-utah/box-elder-county-commissioner-speaks-data-center-vote/"What happened at that meeting wasn't civic engagement. It was something closer to theater." — Utah Stories:https://utahstories.com/2026/05/stratos-data-center-box-elder-mida-utah-ai-project/Morning of the vote — ABC4:https://www.abc4.com/news/northern-utah/box-elder-county-data-center/Salt Lake Tribune — full meeting recap:https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-final-vote-box/Utah News Dispatch — full coverage:https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/04/box-elder-commissioners-approve-data-center/Elevate Utah — tax structure breakdown:https://www.elevateutah.news/p/the-little-data-center-on-the-prairieSalt Lake Tribune — pre-vote explainer:https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/hyperscale-data-center-project/--Chapters00:00:00 - YouTube Suppressed This Video00:00:21 - The Scale Nobody Is Talking About00:01:23 - How They Pulled It Off00:01:48 - The Vote That Didn't Matter00:02:07 - The Stratos Project Exposed00:02:57 - Draining the Water Supply00:04:01 - You Have No Say00:05:52 - When Data Centers Work00:06:49 - The Documented Success Story00:08:28 - What You Can Actually Do00:08:55 - The Other Side of the Argument00:09:21 - MIDA: The Authority Above Your Vote#Utah #DataCenter #StratosProject...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf0uj2zUrKE
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