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Lefty Lawless Courtesy Photo How Letty Lawless and the Brine Shrimp Band Beat Big Daddy Cox and His 9 Gigawatt AI Data Center … The word “melodrama” generally isn’t applied in complimentary terms, but sometimes it can hit just right. For playwright Connor Johnson, taking on the subject of the public pushback against the Stratos Project data center in Box Elder County called for just such an approach.

“I think melodrama can offer the ultimate form of catharsis,” Johnson said. “The fact that it can be a pejorative descriptor (because it is so reliant on structure, archetype and telling the…

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