Project dossier · Kuna, Idaho

Meta Kuna Under construction

Chip types: B300. Epoch AI estimates ~152 MW.

Key facts

Operator: Meta
Owner: Meta
Size: 152 MW
Location: Kuna, Idaho
Stage today: Under construction

Source
read 2026-08-14

What to do next

Next step: Under construction — pull the approved conditions and permits and hold the builder to them; an expansion or a new building reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (12 events)

2021-12-22filing
Idaho Power filed an application with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (Case No. IPC-E-21-42) for approval of a special contract and Tariff Schedule 33 to provide electric service to Brisbie LLC — the shell entity used for Meta's then-unannounced Kuna project. · source
2022-02-16announcement
Idaho Commerce announced Meta would build an $800 million, 960,000-square-foot data center in Kuna, bringing about 100 permanent jobs and up to 1,200 construction jobs, with Meta also funding a $50 million water/sewer system for the city. · source
2022-02-17coverage
Data Center Frontier reported the Kuna facility would be at least 80% more water-efficient than the average data center and would use outside air for cooling at least 50% of the year, and noted Idaho Power developed a new green tariff so Meta could run on 100% renewable energy. · source
2022-02-24construction
Meta awarded Hensel Phelps the $800 million Kuna data center project (preconstruction and construction services), with groundbreaking scheduled for September 2022 and construction expected to continue through 2025. · source
2022-11-01vote
The Kuna City Council formally approved the Urban Renewal Plan for the Kuna East Urban Renewal Project via Ordinance No. 2022-34, establishing the district around the Meta project site. · source
2023-03-30vote
The Idaho Senate passed House Bill 328, legislation explicitly tied to Kuna's creation of an urban renewal area around the Meta data center, restricting data centers claiming the state sales-tax exemption from also sitting in new urban renewal revenue-allocation areas. · source
2023-10-12ruling
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission issued Order No. 35958 in Case No. IPC-E-21-42, giving final approval of the special contract and Schedule 33 tariff for the Brisbie LLC (Meta) Kuna data center facility. · source
2024-05-16filing
Idaho Power filed an application with the IPUC (Case No. IPC-E-24-20) to amend its power purchase agreement with PVS 2, LLC — the Pleasant Valley Solar project developed to supply renewable power for Meta's Kuna load — moving the commercial operation date from December 31, 2026 to May 31, 2026. · source
2024-10-25coverage
Idaho Business Review reported the Kuna data center was running right on schedule per Meta's community development manager, on track for a 2025 completion despite an earlier roughly eight-month redesign pause to accommodate AI infrastructure. · source
2025-12-17coverage
Meta stated it invested over $70 million to build a water and wastewater treatment facility at the Kuna site that has since been gifted to the city of Kuna. · source
2026-03-04coverage
Deseret Magazine reported the Kuna facility would use about 70,000 gallons of water daily in winter months (drawing on water rights for roughly 3 million gallons/day), was in final construction stages, and quoted a nearby resident objecting to the power demands. · source
2026-08-03coverage
Gem State Chronicle reported the Kuna facility's assessed valuation crossed $1 billion in 2025, triggering Idaho's $400 million taxable-value cap for qualifying data centers, and that Meta had separately paid the city an $8.2 million one-time mitigation payment. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 11 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Idaho DEQ — Air QualityThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
Search Idaho DEQ — Air Quality for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search Kuna planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Kuna property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

No organised market covers this statenoteThere is no public queue to read. The record is the utility's integrated resource plan and its filings at the PUC — plus FERC eLibrary for anything federally docketed.
Idaho Public Utilities Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 43.490, -116.420 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Idaho briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Meta Kuna”, aigridwatch.com/projects/meta-kuna, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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