Box Elder voters may have chance to overturn decision on ‘hyperscale’ data center project, clerk says

Box Elder voters may have chance to overturn decision on ‘hyperscale’ data center project, clerk says

Voters in Box Elder County may have a chance to overturn the county commission’s decision to approve the development of a “hyperscale” data center if enough support is gathered to create a land use referendum — although the county’s top elections official cautions the legality of such a referendum is still being reviewed.

Ordinary People Fear AI, While the Tech Leaders Working to Create a Permanent Underclass Say They're Extremely Psyched About It

Despite a massive campaign by some of the wealthiest companies in the world to push AI as the cure-all for society’s problems, regular working-class people remain resentful of the technology at best, and downright petrified at worst. At a contentious county commission meeting in Box Elder, Utah, for example, sheriff’s deputies held irate community members back after three county commissioners rammed through a hyperscale data center backed by Can…