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Stratos Project

Stratos Project

Announced
Rumored

Jurisdiction: US — Rest of US (composite)

Capacity
9,000 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
$100.0B
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

60.5 /100
60.5/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

80 /100
80/100

Regulatory

70 /100
70/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Stratos Project No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Regulatory baseline 70 Stratos Project No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Stratos Project No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Stratos Project No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

No entity roles recorded for this project.

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    Deseret News — Box Elder County commissioners on May 4 unanimously approved plans for a 40,000-acre data center in northern Utah's Hansel Valley... will require 9 gigawatts of energy... split between

    Deseret News · backs: capacity mw, capex usd, status

    https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/05/12/everything-about-utah-stratos-project-data-center/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E4
    Officials nationwide face death threats and gunfire over AI data center projects — More than 500 towns restrict builds as councils shutter public comment

    · Tom’s Hardware · relevance 0.70

  2. E4
    Most New US Data Centers Are Slated for Drought-Plagued Areas

    · Mother Jones · relevance 0.70

  3. E4
    Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land

    · The Guardian · relevance 0.70

  4. E4
    Suit filed against controversial planned Stratos datacenter project in Utah

    · The Guardian · relevance 0.85

  5. E4
    "We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

    · Ars Technica · relevance 0.70

  6. E4
    How the insatiable thirst of datacenters is leaving communities across the US high and dry

    · The Guardian · relevance 0.70

  7. E4
    A 9-gigawatt data centre outraged a Utah community. The governor just issued new rules.

    · thenextweb.com · relevance 0.85

  8. E4
    Data center battles started in the states. Now it’s Congress under siege.

    · Virginia Mercury · relevance 0.70

  9. E2
    Grist — Kevin O'Leary, the Canadian TV personality, is the main backer of Stratos... MIDA approved the project and created tax incentives... a water rights filing received nearly 4,000 letters of prot

    Grist · relevance 0.70

  10. E2
    Deseret News — Box Elder County commissioners on May 4 unanimously approved plans for a 40,000-acre data center in northern Utah's Hansel Valley... will require 9 gigawatts of energy... split between

    Deseret News · relevance 0.95