Juab County

Moratoriums and bans

1. Dec. 2025 Nephi City: Zoning change. Ordinance 12-02-2025 created an Industrial 4 zone, the only zone where data centers may locate, with rules on setbacks, size, water use, air quality and lighting; KUER reported it requires air-cooled or closed-loop cooling and a state air permit before city approval. (Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Aug. 12, 2026; KUER 90.1, June 17, 2026)

Updates, newest first

1. Oct. 10, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · The Deseret News reported that the appeal was still pending. (Deseret News, Oct. 10, 2026)
2. Sept. 21, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · The Juab County Commission agenda, at a meeting held in Mona, listed an item on the Nebo North LLC data center. (Juab County Commission (Utah Public Notice Website), Sept. 21, 2026)
3. Sept. 15, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · The resident group Mona Cares filed an appeal asking Juab County commissioners to overturn the CUP and restart approval with adequate notice. The filing came after the 30-day appeal window; the group argues the clock should run from when minutes were posted in late August. (KSL.com, Sept. 15, 2026; The Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 16, 2026)
4. Sept. 14, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · The Tribune reported up to 10 buildings of about 300,000 sq ft each on about 361 acres, up to 750 MW from Rocky Mountain Power, and that Nebo North is in PacifiCorp's first large-load cluster study under SB132. (The Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 14, 2026)
5. Sept. 8, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · At a county commission meeting, Mona residents said they had not been notified. Commissioner Clinton Painter apologized for the lack of notice, said the county followed state notice rules, and said commissioners would ask whether the permit could be revisited. (KSL.com, Sept. 8, 2026; ABC4 Utah, Sept. 8, 2026)
6. April 15, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · The Juab County Planning Commission approved the CUP after a public hearing of about four minutes at which no one spoke against it. (The Salt Lake Tribune, Sept. 14, 2026; Deseret News, Sept. 8, 2026)
7. April 2, 2026 Nebo North Data Center Campus · Juab County gave notice of an Apr. 15 hearing on Nebo North LLC's data center campus CUP in Secs. 13-14, T11S R1W. (Juab County, April 2, 2026)
8. Dec. 2025 Nephi City: Zoning change · Ordinance 12-02-2025 created an Industrial 4 zone, the only zone where data centers may locate, with rules on setbacks, size, water use, air quality and lighting; KUER reported it requires air-cooled or closed-loop cooling and a state air permit before city approval. (Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Aug. 12, 2026; KUER 90.1, June 17, 2026)
9. Nov. 19, 2025 DCPC Data Center Campus (north of Mona) · The Planning Commission unanimously approved two more CUPs (Kay and Young Living properties) for a reconfigured footprint. DCPC said the scope, about 1 million sq ft in two buildings, was unchanged, and the first permit's conditions apply. (Juab County Planning Commission, Nov. 19, 2025)
10. Nov. 6, 2025 DCPC Data Center Campus (north of Mona) · Juab County gave notice of a Nov. 19 hearing on DCPC's island-power data center campus CUP covering five parcels in Secs. 5-6 T11S R1E and Secs. 32-33 T10S R1E. (Juab County, Nov. 6, 2025; Juab County Planning Commission (Utah Public Notice Website), Nov. 19, 2025)
11. Nov. 20, 2024 DCPC Data Center Campus (north of Mona) · The Juab County Planning Commission unanimously approved DCPC's CUP with conditions on roads, the rail crossing and water and wastewater. A commissioner raised concerns about a projected workforce of about 1,000. (Juab County Planning Commission, Nov. 20, 2024)
12. Nov. 6, 2024 DCPC Data Center Campus (north of Mona) · Juab County gave notice of a Nov. 20 hearing on DCPC's request for a 'data center campus with island power' CUP in Section 5, T11S R1E. (Juab County, Nov. 6, 2024)

Statewide

Utah exempts purchases of machinery and equipment by qualifying data centers (new operations built since July 2016 with 150,000 sq ft or more) from sales and use tax under Utah Code 59-12-104(84); the qualifying data center definition in 59-12-102 was last amended by S.B. 114 (2020). (Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Aug. 12, 2026) S.B. 132 (2025), Electric Utility Amendments, effective May 7, 2025, created Title 54, Chapter 26 for customers expecting 100 MW or more: utility large-load contracts that the PSC must approve or reject within 60 days, or private generation, with the large customer paying its incremental costs; it covers service starting by Dec. 31, 2034. (Utah Legislature, 2025; Public Service Commission of Utah, May 9, 2025) The PSC opened rulemaking docket 25-R318-01 in May 2025 to write rules for S.B. 132's large-load service requirements. (Public Service Commission of Utah, May 9, 2025) In docket 26-035-05 the PSC on April 10, 2026, approved a settlement and a Rocky Mountain Power large-load service contract with an unnamed customer of more than 100 MW, finding other customers would not bear its costs. (Public Service Commission of Utah (Rocky Mountain Power filing), Feb. 10, 2026; Public Service Commission of Utah, April 10, 2026) H.B. 76 (2026), Data Center Water Transparency Amendments, effective May 6, 2026, requires new data centers withdrawing 75 acre-feet a year or more to report expected and actual water withdrawals to the Division of Water Rights, which must publish the data. (Utah Legislature, 2026) H.B. 507 (2026), effective May 6, 2026, bars political subdivisions from giving incentives to large-load data centers (100 MW or more) from May 6, 2027, unless they sit in a regionally significant development zone, and creates an optional county energy excise tax. (Utah Legislature, 2026; Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Aug. 12, 2026) Operation Gigawatt, launched by Gov. Cox in 2024, aims to double Utah's power generation capacity within a decade. (Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Aug. 12, 2026) Executive Order 2026-03 (May 29, 2026) set a state Data Center Framework covering water, air, wildlife, ratepayers, rural growth and public comment, which agencies must apply. (Utah Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, Aug. 12, 2026; Deseret News, May 29, 2026) H.B. 325 (2013) lets the MIDA board levy an energy tax of up to 6% of the delivered value of energy in MIDA project areas; Data Center Knowledge reported it would apply to the NSA Utah Data Center at Camp Williams. (Utah State Legislature, March 2013; Data Center Knowledge, May 20, 2013) Utah data centers →