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Closed water loop design uses 87 times less water than original plan
Meta Kuna Data Center
Meta's Kuna data center, built for AI workloads, is now operational in Idaho. It is running, as reported September 4, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Reported by others: 645 MW (GovTech). 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
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| 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Meta | as stated by the source | September 19, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
How much power it needs, also reported: 645 MW, 2026 (GovTech: Meta backing three solar projects expected to add 645 megawatts to grid to offset data center power consumption) .
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 happened
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Groundbreaking was in 2022 [2]
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Meta's Kuna data center grand opening held September 3, 2026 [2]
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Meta's data center in Kuna, Idaho held grand opening event with community members, stakeholders, and policy experts [3]
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Meta's data center in Kuna, Idaho held grand opening on September 3, 2026. [4]
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Data center broke ground in 2022 [5]
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Meta Kuna Data Center is online and fully operational [5]
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Meta formally turned on Kuna data center with closed loop cooling system [6]
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This is Meta's first data center in Idaho [7]
8 earlier entries
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This is Meta's 28th American data center [7]
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The largest building on the Kuna campus is 350,000 square feet [7]
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Meta paid $100 million to build transmission infrastructure for the data center [7]
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Meta backed three solar projects expected to add 645 megawatts to offset the data center's power consumption [7]
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The Kuna data center uses a closed loop cooling system that requires about 200,000 gallons of water [7]
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The Kuna data center is 750,000 square feet [7]
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The Kuna data center cost $1.2 billion [7]
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Meta's Kuna data center formally opened on September 4, 2026 [7]
The full Meta Kuna Data Center timeline, in order
17 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.
What was said
Lisa Grow says the pace and scale of Idaho's growth is unprecedented and Idaho Power must adapt and innovate to keep up with growth statewide and manage resources to keep costs down.
Meta aims to be net water positive by 2030
Every statement about data centers in Idaho, by speaker
4 more statements on this page
Meta
Zero operational water use for majority of year with closed loop system
Scott Stillings, critical operations manager, said the same water used to cool the facility today will be used for the next 10 years
Brad Davis, Meta Director of Global Economic Development, said the closed loop cooling system runs without extra cooling water for much of the year and needs refill every 7 to 10 years
The site
Where in Ada County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 3 other published records in Idaho
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
- Kuna, Ada County, Idaho
- How exactly it is located
- County level, the county seat
- 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 a county seat.
Comparisons
1 metric with more than one figure
Capacity at full buildout
1 figure, 1 sourceNot disclosedNot disclosed
645 MWReported
Show each source's words
- 645 MW, GovTech: Meta backing three solar projects expected to add 645 megawatts to grid to offset data center power consumption
Questions about this project
7 questions answered from the record
How big is Meta Kuna Data Center?
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Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.
Who is building Meta Kuna Data Center?
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Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
Who will use Meta Kuna Data Center?
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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.
How much power and water does Meta Kuna Data Center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Meta Kuna Data Center stand today?
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It is running, as reported September 4, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 19, 2026: Groundbreaking was in 2022 [2].
What has Kuna or Ada County decided about it?
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No decision by Kuna or Ada County about data centers is on the record. The Ada County page and the Idaho scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
What is still unknown about Meta Kuna Data Center?
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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, how much land, 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
- Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Guest commentary: Idaho town sees major tech investment with new data center - Idaho Press, Idaho Press, September 19, 2026, local outlet
- Op Ed: Idaho town sees major tech investment with new data center - The Black Chronicle, The Black Chronicle, September 18, 2026, local outlet
- Op Ed: Idaho town sees major tech investment with new data center - The Center Square, The Center Square, September 18, 2026, local outlet
- ‘We Are Online': Meta Announces The Kuna Data Center Is Now Operating - 95.7 KEZJ, 95.7 KEZJ, September 8, 2026, local outlet
- Meta Turns on $1.2B Data Center, Promising Water Efficiency - GovTech, GovTech, September 4, 2026, local outlet
- Meta turns on its $1.2B Idaho data center with promise of water efficiency - Coeur d'Alene Press, Coeur d'Alene Press, September 4, 2026, local outlet
- ‘We Are Online': Meta Announces The Kuna Data Center Is Now Operating - 1035kissfmboise.com, 1035kissfmboise.com, September 4, 2026, local outlet
- Inside Meta’s new Kuna data center built for AI - Idaho News 6, Idaho News 6, September 3, 2026, local outlet
9 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Meta Kuna Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-kuna-data-center-id, last verified September 19, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Meta Kuna Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-kuna-data-center-id. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- meta-kuna-data-center-id
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/id/ada-county/kuna
- Coordinates
- 43.61361, -116.23778
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Boise), Wikidata, placed at county level
- Coordinate source
- wikidata county seat
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 16, 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
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-19