Data center: New water rights law gives less weight to pushback citing broad impact

If backers of a massive proposed data center re-up their bid to use water from a stream for the project, they’ll do so under a new rules.

By: Annie Knox

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: May 18, 2026

Words: 817

Last Updated: 2 months, 1 week ago

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If and when sponsors of a massive proposed data center re-up their bid to use water from a stream north of the Great Salt Lake for the project, they’ll do so under a new set of rules.

The project’s backers withdrew their request to use the water for industrial purposes instead of irrigation earlier this month after thousands of Utahns wrote to the state’s Division of Water Rights in protest. But Bar H …

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