Millard County

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1. Oct. 2026 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · The Utah DAQ approval-order layer lists Joule Capital Partners Sites #1 through #6, all within about 4 km of one another northwest of Fillmore. (Utah Division of Air Quality (Utah DEQ ArcGIS), Oct. 2026)
2. Sept. 9, 2026 Delta Gigasite · Utah News Dispatch reported the campus was under construction, with crews building the first phase of a gas connection, and described a company water-recovery technology still being tested. (Utah News Dispatch (republished by KPCW), Sept. 9, 2026)
3. July 23, 2026 Delta Gigasite · Creekstone said it had contracted 43,000 Dth/day of firm Kern River gas transport, enough for about 220 MW of first-phase on-site generation. (Creekstone Energy (press release via Business Wire), July 23, 2026)
4. April 22, 2026 Delta Gigasite · Creekstone announced a lease of about 13,000 acres of state trust land next to the campus for more than 1 GW of solar, with county zoning approved for the first phase. (Creekstone Energy (press release via Utah Business), April 22, 2026)
5. April 9, 2026 Delta Gigasite · The Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity awarded Creekstone a 50% post-performance REDTIF tax credit over 20 years, citing $17.08 billion in planned capital investment and 106 new jobs. (Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity, April 9, 2026)
6. Feb. 18, 2026 Delta Gigasite · POWER reported a December 2025 groundbreaking, a Phase 1 power goal for 2027, and nonbinding MOUs with Zeo Energy (280 MW solar-storage) and EnergySolutions (at least 2 GW nuclear). (POWER Magazine, Feb. 18, 2026)
7. Feb. 9, 2026 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · The Tribune and Grist reported six buildings, each powered by 69 Caterpillar gas generators, with construction slated for spring 2026. (The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist (republished by AOL via Stacker, March 11, 2026), Feb. 9, 2026)
8. Feb. 5, 2026 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · The Sanpete Messenger reported that Joule broke ground in November 2025. (Sanpete Messenger, Feb. 5, 2026)
9. Jan. 22, 2026 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · Utah DAQ issued Approval Order DAQE-AN162810001-26 for Joule's first site: 69 gas-fired generator engines, 69 diesel emergency engines and 69 absorption chillers; no public comments were received. (Utah Division of Air Quality, Jan. 22, 2026)
10. Nov. 13, 2025 Delta Gigasite · KSL reported that Creekstone had closed a Series B round led by Trident Ridge, with Pelion Ventures participating; terms were not disclosed. (KSL.com, Nov. 13, 2025)
11. Nov. 5, 2025 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · Millard County commissioners said Joule and Creekstone got no special treatment or incentives and would supply their own power and water. (Utah Business, Nov. 5, 2025)
12. Oct. 21, 2025 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · Founders said the county had granted the CUP and that a 1.3 GW first phase would break ground in November. (Deseret News, Oct. 21, 2025)
13. Sept. 16, 2025 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · The county commission agenda set a public hearing and possible approval of the C-2 CUP amendment for the data center and generating facility. (Millard County Board of County Commissioners, Sept. 16, 2025)
14. Sept. 3, 2025 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · The planning commission unanimously recommended C-2 CUP #Z-2025-048 for a data center and generating facility at about 11000 N McCornick Road, with a six-building Phase 1 and 19 conditions, including construction by Dec. 31, 2027. (Millard County Planning Commission, Sept. 3, 2025)
15. Aug. 15, 2025 Delta Gigasite · KSL reported the commission had approved the rezoning and, unanimously, Creekstone's conditional use permit for a 20-million-square-foot, 26-hall campus. (KSL.com (republished by Deseret News), Aug. 15, 2025)
16. Aug. 8, 2025 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · Joule, Caterpillar and Wheeler announced a gas-engine and battery package for a campus that could eventually reach 4 GW. (Power Engineering, Aug. 8, 2025)
17. Aug. 5, 2025 Joule High-Performance Compute Campus · The Millard County Commission unanimously rezoned about 4,000 acres of Triple C Farms land for Joule. (ABC4, Aug. 5, 2025; KSL.com (republished by Deseret News), Aug. 15, 2025)
18. July 30, 2025 Delta Gigasite · BluSky AI signed a letter of intent for a 25-acre site with up to 50 MW of power inside the Delta Gigasite; Creekstone and BluSky later announced the agreement. (Data Center Dynamics, July 30, 2025; Creekstone Energy and BluSky AI (press release via Utah Business), Aug. 1, 2025)
19. May 14, 2025 Delta Gigasite · Millard County noticed Fibernet MercuryDelta's request to rezone about 1,144 acres in T17S R6W, Sections 24, 25 and 36 from agricultural to Heavy Industrial, with a commission hearing set for June 3, 2025. (Millard County, May 14, 2025)

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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 →