“Do I think the data center vote cost me the election? Yes I do” (newsweek.com)
A proposed 9-gigawatt data center in Box Elder County — twice the size of Manhattan, drawing more power than all of Utah uses — is now a live electoral liability. Incumbents who advanced it are losing primaries and naming the project as the reason.
The thread split on what voters are actually angry about: one camp says it's jobs and economic resentment dressed up as environmentalism; Utah locals say water and power bills are the whole story in a drying desert.
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