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Residents urge strict conditions and monitoring as Iron County discusses proposed data center
Summary
A public-comment session at the Iron County Commission focused on a proposed large data center on private land, with residents raising concerns about water rights, air quality, wildlife, noise and the enforceability of conditions. Commissioners said planning staff will draft detailed conditional-use conditions and return to the planning commission for a vote.
Marion Munn, a retired educator and Cedar City resident, told the commission she was worried about health impacts from combustion byproducts and particulate emissions and said, “We shouldn’t be trading money for people’s health.”
Multiple speakers—including Riley Cooper and Nicole Phillips—urged the county to require enforceable monitoring and oversight if the project proceeds, raising questions about water-supply limits for the basin, the number of backup generators proposed, and whether promised local jobs would materialize. “We are in a desert, and I want to live here for as long as I can,” Riley Cooper said, adding concerns…
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