Photographer’s report: What I saw at the ‘hyperscale’ data center site in Utah

Photographer’s report: What I saw at the ‘hyperscale’ data center site in Utah

The sun rises over a part of Hansel Valley, in Box Elder County, near the proposed Stratos Project, a massive data center planned for 40,000 acres of land, on Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) Editor’s note: Utah News Dispatch asked photojournalist Spenser Heaps to document the much debated Hansel Valley in Box Elder County, where a fast-tracked proposal for a large-scale data center has spurred outrage acro…