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Video: ‘No safe amount,’ experts talk about AI data center air pollution for Box Elder

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Tim Davis, Commissioner for Utah’s Department of Environmental Quality, points out that the developers behind Project Stratos haven’t even approached the department with plans yet for air pollution.

Davis said the monitoring would have to be set up according to state standards, making sure emissions from the data center and power plant do not impact the airshed along the Wasatch Front.

That means air monitoring studies would have to show that emissions wouldn’t move from the airshed in western Box Elder County into the Wasatch Front. Some health experts however are concerned that those standards don’t do nearly enough to protect the community.

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