Residential and commercial real estate developer, land holder, owner of many, many businesses; a private plane, etc., etc. Oh, and Speaker of the Utah House.
Schultz will be in town Thursday, May 21 speaking at the Women’s Republican Club of Washington County. It’s been suggested that he plans to run for Governor of Utah but has little name recognition across the state. Could this be why he’s down here?
One way he is tackling that name issue, according to the Utah Dispatch, is with videos. “The Utah House has been paying Northbound Strategies $6,000 per month in taxpayer funds to produce videos of him explaining his policy priorities.” (Yes, WE are paying to help him with his name problem!)
Not sure if this was strategic on his part, but what IS helping his name recognition is his involvement in the STRATOS Project. The proposed AI Data Center up in Box Elder County, approved by a handful of commissioners. Schulz, purchased approximately 640 acres of land adjacent to the proposed project in 2025. Thirteen months before the “rumors” were starting about data center deals with landowners.
TogetherWorks Southern Utah (TWSU) announces a peaceful,
May 21, 2026
sidewalk-based protest calling for legislative transparency regarding the push
for AI data centers in Utah, specifically the STRATOS Project.
According to Elevate Utah, Schultz said in May of this year that he “was ‘not made aware of” the Stratos Project’ until just a little over 30 days ago.”
They go on to report that “Kevin O’Leary, for his part, told Fox and Friends on April 27 that he had met with Governor Cox, Speaker Schultz, and Senate President Stuart Adams in late 2025 about the project. Schultz told the Deseret News that “Yeah, I wasn’t a part of that” and that O’Leary had reached out, but his schedule was too busy. We (Elevate Utah) are not in a position to resolve that particular disagreement. We will simply note that by the time that meeting allegedly did or did not happen, Schultz’s company had already been sitting on those 640 acres for the better part of a year.”
Seems like there is a lot going on behind the scenes with the push for AI Datacenters in Utah that We The People are not privvy to. We need transparency!
