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Utah considers changes to laws governing data centers

By Deseret News · August 25, 2026 · 1 min read
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Workers continue to prepare the facility at Valar Atomics in Orangeville on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, for a small modular reactor. New technologies pioneered in Utah allow for less water consumption — or no water consumption at all — to cool data centers, including the Novva Data Center and Valar Atomics's waterless reactor.

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