Valar Atomics' proposed campus of small nuclear reactors, manufacturing and data centers on federal land near Price and state trust land north of Wellington, in Carbon County. It is waiting on permits, as reported September 30, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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| 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 |
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Valar Atomics | as stated by the source | [3] npr.org | October 2, 2026 |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | small modular nuclear reactors, high temperature gas cooled | as stated by the source | [1] utah.gov | October 2, 2026 |
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
How much power it needs, also reported: 9.6 GW, 2026 (NPR: Valar Atomics' Project Beehive reactors would produce around 9.6 gigawatts of power for the data centers in aggregate, according to the company's proposal to federal regulators as NPR reported it.); 4 percent, 2024 (Electric Power Research Institute, Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States: Effect of a doubling of data center capacity on residential retail electricity prices, a fall of roughly) .
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.
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· Status: permitting (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Valar Atomics filed an initial application with the Bureau of Land Management to use about 9,000 acres of public land near Price for an industrial campus that could include a gas cooled nuclear reactor, a data center and manufacturing, the bureau's Utah office confirmed. [4], also [3]
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Utah's Trust Lands Administration board unanimously approved leasing state trust land about five miles north of Wellington to Valar Atomics for up to 100 years, where the company plans small nuclear reactors to power industrial uses and data centers. [2], also [4]
· Status: proposed (content date)
Utah's Trust Lands Administration board heard Valar Atomics' proposed lease of state trust land north of Wellington as a discussion item, with public comment in favor from all three Carbon County commissioners and the deputy director of the Utah Office of Energy Development. [1]
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Valar Atomics said 'No construction begins before permits and approvals,' and that it is committed to public engagement on the project.
Tony Martines said nuclear power fits the long range plans of Carbon County, an energy producing community, adding 'We have the workforce. We have the space. We have all the infrastructure.'
Every statement about data centers in Utah, by speaker
executive director of the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
Lexi Tuddenham said the project raises larger questions about federal land, and that nuclear waste storage, nuclear development and data centers on public land would have 'tremendous implications for how public lands are used.'
executive director of the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
Lexi Tuddenham said 'We have a right to know as citizens what is going on, not just with our state lands, but also with our federal lands.'
wildlands director at the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Neal Clark said 'It's concerning to see that the Trump administration, with the support of the state of Utah, is pushing this forward on significant acreage of public lands.'
Carbon County resident and unaffiliated candidate for the county commission
Cheryl Lupo said 'People are up in arms' over the data centers planned in Carbon County, because, she said, residents are not being heard.
Larry Jensen said 'the Carbon County commissioners are committed to allowing these things to move forward,' even with pushback from some residents, and that the silent majority is who the commissioners represent.
head of commercial development at Valar Atomics
Cory Gardner said 'America stands no chance against our adversaries without energy abundance,' and that Valar Atomics believes it should start in Utah.
chair of the Trust Lands Administration board
Mike Nelson said of the Valar Atomics lease, 'We weren't always sure what to ask about,' because the deal was a first for the board.
Larry Jensen, speaking for the three Carbon County commissioners, told the Trust Lands Administration board that the Valar Atomics project is critical to rebuilding the county's industrial valuation and easing the property tax burden that shifted onto residents as local coal production collapsed, as the board's minutes record it.
deputy director of the Utah Office of Energy Development
Jake Garfield told the Trust Lands Administration board that Valar Atomics has been a strong partner as a tenant at the San Rafael Energy Lab, and that small modular reactors offer a path for data centers to grow without adding air emissions or heavy water use, as the board's minutes record it.
Where in Price is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Price, not a building, and the outline is Carbon County.
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Valar Atomics' proposal to federal regulators, as NPR reported it, via NPR, Sep 30, 2026
Bureau of Land Management, Utah office, via KSL, Sep 30, 2026
Trust Lands Administration staff memorandum, via Utah Trust Lands Administration, Sep 14, 2026
Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.
Valar Atomics is the developer, source. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
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.
Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
It is waiting on permits, as reported September 30, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 30, 2026: Valar Atomics filed an initial application with the Bureau of Land Management to use about 9,000 acres of public land near Price for an industrial campus that could include a gas cooled nuclear reactor, a data center and manufacturing, the bureau's Utah office confirmed. [4]
No decision by Price or Carbon County about data centers is on the record. The Carbon County page and the Utah scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
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, 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.
5 sources on file.
Data Center Record, "Project Beehive", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/valar-atomics-price-data-center-ut, last verified October 2, 2026.
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