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Data center: New water rights law gives less weight to pushback citing broad impact
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 Ranch, which submitted the application, “fully intends to move forward with the project” and come back with a new application and more information to make its case, a ...
