Salt Lake County

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1. Oct. 2026 Flexential Downtown Salt Lake City · Flexential lists the site at 44,550 sq ft with 2.65 MW of critical power. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
2. Oct. 2026 Flexential Downtown Salt Lake City · Flexential's Salt Lake City market page lists this as one of four local sites totaling 6.26 MW, though the same page says the company has five data centers in the metro area. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
3. Oct. 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - Fair Park · Flexential lists the site at 22,539 sq ft with 490 kW of critical power. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
4. Oct. 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - Fair Park · Flexential's Salt Lake City market page lists this as one of four local sites totaling 6.26 MW, though the same page says the company has five data centers in the metro area. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
5. Oct. 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - Millcreek · Flexential lists the site at 36,000 sq ft with 1.92 MW of critical power. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
6. Oct. 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - Millcreek · Flexential's Salt Lake City market page lists this as one of four local sites totaling 6.26 MW, though the same page says the company has five data centers in the metro area. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
7. Oct. 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - South Valley · Flexential lists the site at 30,512 sq ft with 1.2 MW of critical power. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
8. Oct. 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - South Valley · Flexential's Salt Lake City market page lists this as one of four local sites totaling 6.26 MW, though the same page says the company has five data centers in the metro area. (Flexential, Oct. 2026)
9. Oct. 2026 eBay Topaz data center · The architecture firm Corgan, on an undated project page, describes fitting out a 42,600 sq ft, 10.4 MW data hall in eBay's 146,700 sq ft SLC03 building in South Jordan and says the campus also has eBay-owned buildings SLC01 and SLC02. (Corgan, Oct. 2026)
10. Sept. 2026 Novva Utah data center campus · Novva's Utah page describes a 100-acre, four-phase campus of about 1.5 million sq ft with an on-site 200 MW substation and 15-30 MW of on-site solar, and posts monthly water-use reports. (Novva Data Centers, Sept. 2026)
11. Sept. 2026 DataBank Granite Point campus (SLC2-SLC6) · DataBank's SLC5 page lists 10 MW of critical IT load and 49,180 IT sq ft, and mentions the campus's 66 MW substation. (DataBank, Sept. 2026)
12. April 2026 Aligned Salt Lake City campus (SLC-01, SLC-02, SLC-03) · A Gardner Policy Institute data summary, later heard by a legislative interim committee, listed SLC-01, SLC-02 and SLC-03 in West Jordan among operating Utah data centers at 34, 48 and 80 MW. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
13. April 2026 Aligned SLC-04 · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Aligned SLC-04 in West Valley City among operating data centers, at 270 MW. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
14. April 2026 Novva Utah data center campus · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Novva West Jordan 1 (31 MW) and 2 (72 MW) among operating data centers and West Jordan 3 (72 MW) as under construction for 2026. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
15. April 2026 DataBank Granite Point campus (SLC2-SLC6) · The Gardner Institute data summary listed SLC2 through SLC6 among operating data centers. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
16. April 2026 DataBank SLC1 (Downtown Salt Lake City) · The Gardner Institute data summary listed DataBank SLC1 Downtown among operating data centers at 1 MW. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
17. April 2026 Flexential Downtown Salt Lake City · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Flexential Downtown (rounded to 3 MW) among operating data centers. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
18. April 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - Fair Park · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Flexential Fair Park (rounded to 1 MW) among operating data centers. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
19. April 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - Millcreek · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Flexential Millcreek (2 MW) among operating data centers. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
20. April 2026 Flexential Salt Lake City - South Valley · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Flexential South Valley in West Jordan (1 MW) among operating data centers. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
21. April 2026 EdgeConneX Salt Lake City (EDCSLC01) · The Gardner Institute data summary listed EdgeConneX SLC01 in West Valley City among operating data centers at 1 MW. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
22. April 2026 eBay Topaz data center · The Gardner Institute data summary listed the eBay data center in South Jordan among operating data centers at 24 MW. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
23. April 2026 Oracle West Jordan data center · The Gardner Institute data summary listed Oracle West Jordan among operating data centers, with capacity unknown. (Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, University of Utah, April 2026)
24. March 2026 EdgeConneX Salt Lake City (EDCSLC01) · EdgeConneX's Q1 2026 data sheet places SLC01 in West Valley City and describes a 25,000 sq ft facility with 4,875 sq ft of raised floor and 500 kW of N+1 power, planned to grow to 2 MW. (EdgeConneX, March 2026; EdgeConneX, Oct. 2026)
25. Feb. 24, 2026 DataBank Granite Point campus (SLC2-SLC6) · DataBank posted a summary of a Yahoo News article on Utah data centers, saying Granite Point used 7.7 million gallons of water over 12 months. (DataBank (summary of a Yahoo News article), Feb. 24, 2026)
26. Jan. 2026 Aligned Salt Lake City campus (SLC-01, SLC-02, SLC-03) · Aligned's Salt Lake City page lists SLC-01, SLC-02 and SLC-03 at 3333 W 9000 S in West Jordan on a 55-acre campus, and SLC-04 at a separate West Valley City address. (Aligned Data Centers, Jan. 2026)
27. Jan. 2026 Aligned SLC-04 · Aligned's location page lists SLC-04 at 6368 W Beagley Rd, West Valley City. (Aligned Data Centers, Jan. 2026)
28. March 5, 2025 Novva Utah data center campus · Novva and CIM Group said they had closed $2 billion in financing to finish phases 2 and 3, two 318,000 sq ft buildings of 72 MW critical IT each that began construction in Dec. 2023 and Jan. 2024 and were due for completion in 2026; phase 1 had been operating since 2023. (Novva Data Centers, March 5, 2025; Engineering News-Record, March 13, 2025)
29. Sept. 26, 2022 DataBank Granite Point campus (SLC2-SLC6) · DCD reported that DataBank opened SLC6, a 171,000 sq ft building with 11 MW available and another 11 MW planned (the article's subhead said up to 21 MW). (DatacenterDynamics, Sept. 26, 2022)
30. June 23, 2022 Aligned Salt Lake City campus (SLC-01, SLC-02, SLC-03) · DCD reported that SLC-02 had opened in March 2021 and that SLC-01 was rated at 34 MW. (DatacenterDynamics, June 23, 2022)
31. June 22, 2022 Aligned Salt Lake City campus (SLC-01, SLC-02, SLC-03) · Aligned announced SLC-03, a third building on the West Jordan campus that would add more than 100 MW and use waterless heat rejection. (GlobeNewswire (Aligned Data Centers release), June 22, 2022; DatacenterDynamics, June 23, 2022)
32. Feb. 23, 2022 Aligned SLC-04 · Aligned announced that the first phase of SLC-04, a build-to-scale waterless data center in West Valley, was complete; it called SLC-04 a multi-megawatt facility within roughly 270 MW of company-wide development planned for 2022. (Utah Business (Aligned press release), Feb. 23, 2022)
33. Sept. 9, 2021 DataBank Granite Point campus (SLC2-SLC6) · DataBank listed SLC2 through SLC5 at Pony Express Rd addresses in Bluffdale, said SLC6 had broken ground on the 23-acre campus, and gave 67.5 MW across its six Salt Lake-area sites. (DataBank, Sept. 9, 2021)
34. Sept. 9, 2021 DataBank SLC1 (Downtown Salt Lake City) · DataBank described SLC1 as an 11,000 sq ft downtown carrier hotel at 179 E Social Hall Ave with 1 MW of on-site power. (DataBank, Sept. 9, 2021)
35. Aug. 31, 2020 Novva Utah data center campus · Utah's Governor's Office of Economic Development and EDCUtah announced Novva's 100-acre West Jordan campus. The first phase, then under construction, included a substation, a 300,000 sq ft data hall and 80,000 sq ft of offices; Novva said it would spend more than $1 billion across four phases. (EDCUtah (with Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development), Aug. 31, 2020)
36. Oct. 30, 2019 Aligned Salt Lake City campus (SLC-01, SLC-02, SLC-03) · Aligned broke ground on SLC-02, a 240,000 sq ft, 48 MW building next to its existing 34 MW West Jordan facility, and said the full campus was planned for 130 MW. (Aligned Data Centers, Oct. 30, 2019)
37. Oct. 23, 2018 DataBank Granite Point campus (SLC2-SLC6) · DataBank said it had finished a privately owned 66 MW substation at Granite Point with direct feeds from Rocky Mountain Power; SLC2 and SLC3 were operating, SLC4 was due by year-end, and the 24-acre campus had room for four more buildings. (DataBank, Oct. 23, 2018)
38. March 23, 2018 Aligned Salt Lake City campus (SLC-01, SLC-02, SLC-03) · Data Center Frontier reported Aligned's plan to retrofit a former Fairchild Semiconductor chip plant in West Jordan, a roughly 300,000 sq ft building on a 60-acre site with its own utility substation, into a data center of about 50 MW. (Data Center Frontier, March 23, 2018)
39. 2016 Oracle West Jordan data center · Salas O'Brien lists a 40,000 sq ft Oracle project in West Jordan (cells 2.1 and 2.2), dated 2016, for which it engineered seismic updates and the structure for a multi-level plenum cooling system. (Salas O'Brien, 2016)
40. Sept. 26, 2013 eBay Topaz data center · eBay switched on a new South Jordan data center that uses 30 natural-gas Bloom fuel cells as its primary power, with the grid as backup. (Data Center Knowledge, Sept. 26, 2013)
41. May 23, 2010 eBay Topaz data center · Data Center Knowledge reported that eBay's $287 million Topaz data center in South Jordan came online May 4, 2010; phase 1 was a 240,000 sq ft building with three 20,000 sq ft data halls, 7.2 MW and a 30 MW on-site substation, in a four-phase master plan. (Data Center Knowledge, May 23, 2010)
42. April 29, 2010 Oracle West Jordan data center · DCD, citing the Salt Lake Tribune, reported that Oracle had resumed work on the project after halting it in 2009, describing a four-module, 200,000 sq ft data center ('Project Sequoia'). (DatacenterDynamics, April 29, 2010)
43. Oct. 24, 2008 Oracle West Jordan data center · Oracle broke ground on its Utah Compute Facility off Old Bingham Highway near 6000 West in West Jordan, a planned 179,000 sq ft building representing $285 million in investment, due in 2010 with about 100 jobs. (KSL.com, Oct. 24, 2008)

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 →