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Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center

Meta lists a data center at Eagle Mountain, Utah among the sites it operates. It is being built, as reported September 14, 2026.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 22 sources, 2 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened. An offer to the community is shown as its source states it, with its condition, and never added to another.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
300 acres
third party estimate [6]
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Reported by others: 400 MW (Utah News Dispatch, Utah News Dispatch). Their figure, not the record's.
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Meta
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Meta as stated by the source October 3, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land 300 acres third party estimate [6] datacenterfrontier.com October 3, 2026
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

How much power it needs, also reported: 400 MW, 2026 (Utah News Dispatch: Meta data center in New Albany, Ohio powered by 400MW of dedicated natural gas turbines, Utah News Dispatch: Meta data center in New Albany Ohio powered by 400 megawatts of dedicated natural gas turbines enough energy to power over 300,000 homes) .

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Utah County and Eagle Mountain about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Spanish Fork restrictive City Council approved zoning change allowing data center at mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon sltrib.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork City Council members limited the city to only one data center unless city leaders vote to change that in the future. ksl.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork City Council voted to approve changes to city code for a data center. ksl.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork City Council decided not to amend Title 15 after months of study and a two week delay, deferring the final decision for another two weeks fox13now.com
Spanish Fork restrictive A Spanish Fork public hearing on August 18 lasted more than six hours with dozens of residents expressing concerns about the Volition proposal ksl.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork City Council delayed the Title 15 amendment vote a second time, for another two weeks. fox13now.com
12 earlier decisions on the county's rows
DateWhoDecisionSource
Eagle Mountain Eagle Mountain walked back its first tax hike but residents will still pay about double the old rate sltrib.com
Eagle Mountain Meta and Google received tax incentives or breaks for data centers in Eagle Mountain sltrib.com
Eagle Mountain Eagle Mountain raised property taxes 183% sltrib.com
Spanish Fork restrictive The proposed regulations would limit no more than two data center sites with onsite power generation within city limits sltrib.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork is considering changing city code to establish rules and requirements for data centers with onsite power generation facilities sltrib.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Proposed amendments require closed loop, air cooled or dry cooling systems to limit water use heraldextra.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Proposed amendments to Title 15 would cap a data center at 500 megawatts heraldextra.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork City Council worked to establish requirements for data centers and other facilities that generate their own electricity by amending Title 15 of the municipal code heraldextra.com
Spanish Fork restrictive City council tabled resolution to amend ordinance allowing data centers to generate their own power fox13now.com
Spanish Fork restrictive Spanish Fork city council held five hour public hearing on data center proposal with dozens of commenters fox13now.com
Spanish Fork restrictive The Spanish Fork City Council voted to table the ordinance after a six and a half hour meeting with extensive public comment yahoo.com
Spanish Fork restrictive After a six hour public hearing, Spanish Fork City Council tabled a vote on Title 15 amendments that would set rules for self powered data centers until September 1. heraldextra.com

What happened

  1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Meta first broke ground in 2018 [17]

  2. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Campus opened in 2021 at 1275 N. Community Circle [17]

  3. · Status: being built (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Meta expands Eagle Mountain data center with $2.5 million community investment [17]

  4. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center at Eagle Mountain, Utah on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

  5. (content date)

    Meta announced Phase 3 expansion of Eagle Mountain data center project [14]

  6. Moratorium (content date)

    Turner halted work at the Meta data center site [15]

  7. (content date)

    Mortenson Construction fired a worker who left a yellow noose at Meta Eagle Mountain data center construction site [5]

  8. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Turner Construction shut down a Facebook data center site in Iowa due to noose being discovered on anniversary of end of slavery [9]

23 earlier entries

  1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Turner Construction shut down a Facebook data center project in Ohio due to racist graffiti [9]

  2. (content date)

    Construction suspended for one day following noose incident [9]

  3. (content date)

    Worker responsible for noose incident was fired [9], also [5]

  4. (content date)

    Mortenson Construction offered $100,000 reward for information identifying person responsible [9]

  5. (content date)

    Noose found at Meta Eagle Mountain data center construction site [9], also [12], also The Salt Lake Tribune query feed

  6. (content date)

    Mortenson offered $100,000 reward for information leading to identification of person(s) responsible [12]

  7. (content date)

    Noose like rope found at Meta data center construction site in Eagle Mountain [12]

  8. (content date)

    Racist graffiti was found at Eagle Mountain construction site in November, with Mortenson offering $50,000 reward [5]

  9. (content date)

    Work halted until Friday for additional safety protocols and training [13]

  10. (content date)

    Mortenson offered $50,000 reward for information identifying person responsible for vandalism [13]

  11. (content date)

    Construction halted after additional instances of racist or hateful graffiti found at Eagle Mountain site [13]

  12. (content date)

    Mortenson and Meta offered $50,000 reward for information on perpetrator [8], also [12]

  13. (content date)

    Site wide stand down ordered by Mortenson following racist graffiti incident [8]

  14. (content date)

    Racist graffiti found at Meta data center construction site in Eagle Mountain on November 8, 2021 [8]

  15. (content date)

    Mortenson offered $50,000 reward for information on November incident [12]

  16. (content date)

    Racist message found in portable bathroom in November 2021 [12]

  17. (content date)

    In November 2021, employees found racist graffiti including Kill a n word day 11/29 on construction toilets at the same site [9]

  18. (content date)

    First instance of racist slur and threat found in portable bathroom earlier in month [13]

  19. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Facebook plans to expand Eagle Mountain campus by more than 900,000 square feet with two new data centers in February, boosting planned development to five data center buildings [6]

  20. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Google opened a Google Cloud Platform region in Salt Lake City last year, leasing space from a data center provider [6]

  21. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Second expansion of 900,000 square feet was announced in February 2021 [7]

  22. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    First expansion of 500,000 square feet was announced in 2019 [7]

  23. · being built (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    Solar farm is scheduled to be in service at the end of 2023 [7]

The full Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center timeline, in order

13 corrections to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  2. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  3. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  4. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  5. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  6. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  7. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  8. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: the tier the record already gives kutv.com. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  9. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: the tier the record already gives kutv.com. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  10. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier: the tier the record already gives kutv.com. The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

  11. · the kind of source of a history entry

    Tier after resolution (2026-09-21). The source on file is kutv.com, the publisher's own page. The item reached the record through Google News: "data center" Utah, which the record carries at tier 1, and the approve copied the feed's tier onto this row. The tier now comes from the outlet, which the record already carries at tier 4 on 1 row of sources. DECISIONS section 7. The speaker, the claim, the date and the url are unchanged. The day's label corrections.

  12. · the kind of source of a history entry

    Tier after resolution (2026-09-21). The source on file is kutv.com, the publisher's own page. The item reached the record through Google News: "data center" Utah, which the record carries at tier 1, and the approve copied the feed's tier onto this row. The tier now comes from the outlet, which the record already carries at tier 4 on 1 row of sources. DECISIONS section 7. The speaker, the claim, the date and the url are unchanged. The day's label corrections.

  13. · the effective at of a status history row

    Dated from its source: the row's own text states it: "... read September 14, 2026." The old and new text.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Campus annual water use will be less than typical golf course in region
Meta · September 14, 2026 · paraphrased · KUTV local outlet
The project would not include a long term significant employment base according to West Jordan city manager
West Jordan city manager · May 30, 2024 · paraphrased · DataCenterKnowledge trade press

Every statement about data centers in Utah, by speaker

1 more statement on this page

Meta

New buildings will use closed loop liquid cooling system with dry cooling requiring no water during normal operations

September 14, 2026, KUTV · KUTV local outlet · the record (Paraphrased; said in the source itself)

The site

Where in Eagle Mountain is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Eagle Mountain, not a building, and the outline is Utah County.

  • This record: Being built, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 12 other published records in Utah
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Eagle Mountain, Utah County, Utah
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Comparisons

1 metric with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Capacity at full buildout

1 figure, 1 source
Not disclosedNot disclosed

No filing or developer document on the record states one.

400 MWReported

Utah News Dispatch, Aug 26, 2026

Show each source's words
  • 400 MW, Utah News Dispatch: Meta data center in New Albany, Ohio powered by 400MW of dedicated natural gas turbines

What the developer has offered

community fund, from Meta

What the companies behind this project have offered or agreed to give the people and governments around the site, newest first. How offers are recorded.

  1. Community fund paid

    Meta donated $200,000 to Hobble Creek Flow Restoration project [14]

    Offered by
    Meta
    To
    “Central Utah Water Conservancy District”
    Amount
    $200,000 in all
    On what condition
    None stated by the source
    Date
    October 3, 2022

    Kind community_fund, recipients nonprofits, condition none_stated, status paid, date basis: content date; the amount in the source's words: “$200,000”.

Keep going

The county Utah County 3 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Utah Every Utah project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

8 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center?

The record has one measure of its size: 300 acres (third party estimate, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.

Who is building Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center?

Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

Who will use Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

What has been offered to the community around Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center?

Community fund from Meta: $200,000 in all, to “Central Utah Water Conservancy District” (paid), source. Each is shown with its condition under What the developer has offered.

How much power and water does Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center stand today?

It is being built, as reported September 14, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 14, 2026: Meta first broke ground in 2018 [17].

What has Eagle Mountain or Utah County decided about it?

Spanish Fork (rated restrictive): City Council approved zoning change allowing data center at mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon (reported September 24, 2026, source); and Spanish Fork: Spanish Fork City Council members limited the city to only one data center unless city leaders vote to change that in the future. (reported September 24, 2026, source). 18 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

What is still unknown about Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center?

Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is constructing it, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026
  2. Meta lists Eagle Mountain Data Center at Eagle Mountain, Utah, Meta

Reporting

  1. Growing outward: Meta announces expansion of Eagle Mountain data center facility, contributions to community - heraldextra.com, heraldextra.com, September 14, 2026, query feed
  2. Meta got a 40-year tax break for its $1.5 billion data center. Now neighbors face a 183% property tax hike - moneywise.com, moneywise.com, August 19, 2026, query feed
  3. Mortenson fires worker for noose at Facebook data center site - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, March 23, 2022, trade press
  4. Google Buys Land in Growing Cloud Cluster in Utah - Data Center Frontier, Data Center Frontier, October 5, 2021, trade press
  5. Facebook to invest in 120MW solar farm in Utah to power Eagle Mountain data center - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, June 30, 2021, trade press
  6. Contractor Mortenson shuts down Meta/Facebook data center construction site in Utah due to racist graffiti - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, November 22, 2021, trade press
  7. Noose found at Facebook Utah data center construction site, in another racist incident - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, March 22, 2022, trade press
  8. Meta to expand Eagle Mountain data center campus in Utah, Data Center Dynamics, September 15, 2026, trade press
  9. Meta to expand Eagle Mountain data center campus in Utah - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, September 15, 2026, trade press
  10. Police investigating noose like rope found at Facebook data center construction site - KUTV, KUTV, March 21, 2022, local outlet
  11. Construction halted at Facebook data center site after additional 'hateful' messages found - KUTV, KUTV, November 16, 2021, local outlet
  12. Meta to Expand Eagle Mountain Data Center Project - W.Media, W.Media, October 3, 2022, local outlet
8 more sources
  1. Turner halts work at $1.5B Meta site for recurring racist graffiti - Construction Dive, Construction Dive, September 22, 2022, local outlet
  2. Meta announces data center expansion, new community investments in Eagle Mountain, KSL, September 15, 2026, local outlet
  3. Meta plans Eagle Mountain data center expansion, $2.5M community investment - KUTV, KUTV, September 14, 2026, local outlet
  4. Meta Provides Crucial Investment Insights into its $3bn+ Eagle Mountain Data Center in Utah - Construction Review, Construction Review, September 15, 2026, local outlet
  5. Meta announces data center expansion, new community investments in Eagle Mountain - ksl.com, ksl.com, September 15, 2026, local outlet
  6. Deepening Our Investment in Eagle Mountain, Utah - Meta Data Centers, Meta Data Centers, September 15, 2026, local outlet
  7. Can a data center company actually be a good neighbor? - Utah Business, Utah Business, September 15, 2026, local outlet
  8. Meta to expand Eagle Mountain Data Center, announces more than $1 million in community investments - ABC4 Utah, ABC4 Utah, September 14, 2026, local outlet

22 sources on file.

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Slug
meta-eagle-mountain-data-center-ut
Status value
under_construction
Stage
Being built
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/ut/utah-county/eagle-mountain
Coordinates
40.3142721, -112.0119828
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
third_party_estimate
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Restrictive
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-10-03