QTS Eagle Mountain Under construction
Data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Under construction.
Key facts
- Tenant
- Meta
- Location
- Eagle Mountain, Utah
- 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.
What has happened so far (5 events)
- 2024-10-29construction
Eagle Mountain City announced QTS had broken ground on a new data center campus situated west of the existing Meta facility, calling it a significant economic development win. · source - 2025-10-29construction
Eagle Mountain City reported that construction on the QTS data center campus had resumed after a brief delay to ensure the necessary energy infrastructure and resources were in place, citing an expected 2,000-3,000 temporary construction jobs and 100-200 permanent positions. · source - 2026-04-17construction
QTS and Layton Construction held a topping-out ceremony after placing the final structural beam on the first phase's third building, attended by about 2,000 construction workers. · source - 2026-04-20coverage
A news report detailed the project: a 193-acre campus with an initial three buildings of 579,000-592,000 square feet each, backed by a $6 billion QTS investment, with a closed-loop cooling system needing only an initial water fill with no additional draw for cooling once operational. · source - 2026-04-21coverage
KUTV reported that Utah House Bill 76, passed earlier in 2026, now requires large data centers to report water consumption, but the law applies only to facilities that become operational after July 2026 — potentially exempting already-approved projects. · 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.
- Utah DEQ — Division of Air QualityThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
- Search Utah DEQ — Division of 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 Eagle Mountain 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 Eagle Mountain 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.
- Utah Public Service 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 40.310, -112.010 — 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.
Recent news
- Data centers got tax breaks. Homeowners were asked to pay triple. Here’s how Eagle Mountain’s tax fight shook out.
- Utah Residents Protest Kevin O’Leary’s Proposed AI Data Center Campus
- Kevin O'Leary's Utah data center — 3 times the size of Manhattan — sparks 'Shame!' chants from furious residents
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 headlines archived.
Around here
- Utah briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
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Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “QTS Eagle Mountain”, aigridwatch.com/projects/qts-eagle-mountain, retrieved 2026-10-11.
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
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