A proposed 40,000-acre AI data center was approved in rural Utah by a board riddled with undisclosed conflicts of interest. These are the documents you need to file formal complaints — and the instructions to do it.
On April 24, 2026, the Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) unanimously approved the Stratos Project — a proposed 40,000-acre AI data center campus in remote Hansel Valley, Box Elder County. On May 4, the county commission followed.
Both approvals were pushed through despite serious, documented conflicts of interest among the decision-makers. The chair received enormous PAC donations days after he voted. The Governor who championed the project has a family company that owns the fiber routes the project depends on. Board members include a senator who owns a large agricultural business, a county commissioner who owns a real estate brokerage, and a professional lobbyist who gets paid to influence the same kind of boards he sits on.
Utah law provides formal processes for citizens to hold these officials accountable. This site gives you everything you need to use them.
Seven of the nine filings in this package are confidential while under ethics commission review. If anyone publicly discloses the existence of those complaints — including on social media — they will be automatically dismissed and cannot be refiled. The public records requests (GRAMA) have no such restriction and can be discussed freely.
Download the Citizen Briefing Document (Filing 0 below) before doing anything else. It explains every filing in plain language — what to fill in, where to send it, and the recommended timing strategy.
Every field in [BRACKETS]: Complainant 1 name, address, phone — Complainant 2 name, address, phone — date filed. Both signature lines. The document is otherwise complete as drafted.
Every [BRACKET] field: both complainants' names, addresses, phones. Both signature lines. The reporter confrontation video link should be included as a URL in the exhibits.
Every [BRACKET] field: both complainants' names, addresses, phones. Both signature lines. Attach FCC broadband map screenshots as Exhibit C.
Every [BRACKET] field: both complainants' names, addresses, phones. Both signature lines. The ARPA grant records are publicly available at business.utah.gov.
Your name, address, phone, and email only. One complainant is sufficient. The complaint document is fully drafted — you are submitting it as your own statement of concerns.
Your name, address, phone, and email. One person is sufficient. Keep your certified mail receipts — they prove receipt within the statutory period.
Every [BRACKET] field: both complainants' names, addresses, phones. Both signature/confirmation lines. Email filing is fully accepted — this is the fastest complaint to file in the entire package.
Your name, address, city/state/zip, email, and phone in the requestor block at the top of each of the five letters. Agencies have 10 business days to acknowledge and 35 business days to respond. If denied, appeal to the State Records Committee.
All documents are drafted and ready. Fill in the [BRACKET] fields, attach your exhibits, and file. Refer to the How to File section for detailed instructions for each.
The GRAMA records requests are NOT confidential. Unlike the ethics complaints, you can discuss these publicly, share them with press, and post about them on social media. In fact, public attention on GRAMA requests often accelerates agency responses.
The five requests target the single most important unanswered question in this investigation: does CentraCom — the Cox family's fiber company — hold access agreements for the I-84 corridor in Box Elder County, and is it one of the two routes MIDA called "redundant fiber"?
If the answer is yes, the Governor's family company is directly embedded in the site advantage that MIDA used to justify the approval he championed. That connection would be explicit, documented, and in the government's own records.
MIDA cited "redundant fiber availability" as a site advantage. Three federal data sources confirm Hansel Valley is a broadband desert. So what did MIDA actually mean? The GRAMA requests will force them to say specifically which carriers and which routes they were referring to.
Every factual claim in the complaints and on this site is sourced from publicly available records. The links below are exactly what you need to verify the facts before signing as a complainant — and establish your own actual knowledge.
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