Box Elder planned data center near epicenter of Utah's largest earthquake
News Clip2:25KUTV 2 News Salt Lake City·Box Elder County, UT·5/16/2026
A planned data center in Box Elder County, Utah, is facing significant opposition due to concerns over its proximity to the epicenter of the state's largest recorded earthquake. Dissenters have raised objections regarding potential impacts on water and power resources, and now seismic concerns are being added to their list of worries.
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Gov: Box Elder County, Utah State Government
The planned Box Elder County data center is near the site of Utah's largest recorded earthquake that split the ground and could be felt hundreds of miles away.
"It was a magnitude 6.6 and that's the largest earthquake we've ever observed in Utah," said Emily Morton, Research Scientist at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. "For anybody who remembers the 2020 Magna earthquake, this would be about 22 times stronger than that."
Data center dissenters, who showed up en masse in Box Elder County and at the state Capitol, have key objections over potential impacts to water and power. Now, could seismic concerns be added?
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