State Sen. Stuart Adams declared victory after the flamboyant Canadian investor agreed to use 75 per cent less land for a data centre complex northwest of Salt Lake City, to protect water and wildlife and capture more waste heat. Adams is president of the state senate, in which his Republican party holds 22 of the 29 seats. (The Logic)

Talking point: The data centre is planned for land the U.S. military is opening for commercial developments; it was to be a 7.5-gigawatt twin of O’Leary’s proposed facility near Grande Prairie, Alta., where preliminary work is progressing. The Utah project won approval from county-level legislators in May despite major local protests, but O’Leary told Salt Lake City’s ABC4 that he understood it had angered local residents and needed revising. “We pissed off a lot of people, and that’s not the way I do business,” he told the TV station.