# Source: Box Elder County Ordinance 654 — Data Center Moratorium

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** High
**Source Type:** government-record
**URL:** https://www.boxeldercountyut.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2318/Ordinance-654---Data-Center-Moratorium
**Publisher:** Box Elder County, Utah
**Retrieved:** 2026-08-12
**Raw:** raw/stratos-box-elder-county-moratorium-ordinance-654/2026-08-11-54b98b6c696e.txt
**Updated:** 2026-08-11

## Summary

Box Elder County's published Ordinance No. 654 document establishes a temporary land-use regulation covering data centers, data-center power plants, and associated applications in unincorporated Box Elder County. The document says it was passed and adopted June 10, 2026 and was to remain effective for 180 days unless repealed, extended, or replaced.

## Useful Claims

- Document identifier: **Ordinance No. 654**.
- The ordinance document prohibits the county from accepting or processing covered land-use and development applications for 180 days.
- Complete applications determined complete before the effective date are excepted; submitted but incomplete applications are suspended.
- The stated purpose is to give the county time to prepare land-use regulation for data centers, their power plants, and associated infrastructure.

## Reliability Notes

This is the ordinance PDF served by Box Elder County and is primary evidence for its text. The posted copy's voting, chair-signature, and notarization fields are blank. It states that it was passed and adopted on June 10, 2026, but the PDF alone does not show the votes or a signed execution copy. Current effect should be checked against later county enactments because its own term was temporary.

## Verbatim

Section 2, temporary land-use regulation:

> For a period of one hundred eighty (180) days following the effective date of this Ordinance, Box Elder County shall not accept for filing or process any land use application, business license application, building permit application, administrative appeal, administrative land use permit, conditional use permit, subdivision approval, zone change application, site plan application, development agreement, or any other land use or development approval associated with uses related to data centers and/or data center power plants.

## Related Pages

- [Stratos Data Center](stratos-data-center.md)
- [Box Elder County Stratos project page](stratos-box-elder-county-project-page.md)