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Project Beehive, in order

What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.

3 events, August 20, 2026 to September 30, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 11 statements and 7 figures from other sources. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: Utah.

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Stages

  1. proposed
  2. waiting on permits

Now: waiting on permits. A stage is the record's status after the entry that set it (the definitions).

2024 1 under the months

  1. Also in December 2024: 1 figure from another source

    1. (content date)

      Figure · Electric Power Research Institute, Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States

      4 percent: Effect of a doubling of data center capacity on residential retail electricity prices, a fall of roughly Electric Power Research Institute, Have Data Centers Raised Your Electric Bill? Causal Evidence from the United States primary source

2025 2 under the months

  1. Also in December 2025: 2 figures from other sources

    1. (content date)

      Figure · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Brattle Group, Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update, 2026 Edition

      33 percent: Increase in US residential retail electricity prices, 2019 to 2025, nominal Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Brattle Group, Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update, 2026 Edition primary source

    2. (content date)

      Figure · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Brattle Group, Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update, 2026 Edition

      1 cents per kWh: Reduction in inflation adjusted all sector average retail electricity prices in the states with the highest load growth, 2019 to 2025, over Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the Brattle Group, Retail Electricity Price Trends and Drivers: Data Update, 2026 Edition primary source

2026 3 events

  1. (content date)

    proposed

    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]

  2. Also in August 2026: 2 statements

    1. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Larry Jensen, Carbon County commissioner

      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. Utah Trust Lands Administration primary source

    2. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Jake Garfield, 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. Utah Trust Lands Administration primary source

  3. (content date)

    Entry

    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]

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

    waiting on permits

    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]

  5. Also in September 2026: 9 statements and 4 figures from other sources

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

      Figure · Trust Lands Administration staff memorandum, Utah Trust Lands Administration

      640 acres: Valar Atomics' lease agreement covers up to 640 acres of state trust land in Carbon County: 480 acres, with an option to add the other 160 if the Utah National Guard's lease on that part of the section is relocated, according to the Trust Lands Administration's staff memorandum. (State trust land in the lease agreement) Utah Trust Lands Administration primary source

    2. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Tony Martines, Carbon County commissioner

      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.' KSL local outlet

    3. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Larry Jensen, Carbon County commissioner

      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. The Salt Lake Tribune local outlet

    4. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Cory Gardner, 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. KSL local outlet

    5. (content date; reported from elsewhere)

      Statement · Mike Nelson, 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. The Salt Lake Tribune local outlet

    6. (said in the source itself)

      Statement · Cheryl Lupo, 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. The Salt Lake Tribune local outlet

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

      Figure · Utah Trust Lands Administration staff, The Salt Lake Tribune

      35,000,000 dollars: Utah's Trust Lands Administration staff projected about $35 million in lease rents to the state school trust over the first 50 years of Valar Atomics' lease of state land in Carbon County. (Lease rent to the state school trust over 50 years) The Salt Lake Tribune local outlet

    8. (said in the source itself)

      Statement · Lexi Tuddenham, 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.' NPR national outlet

    9. (said in the source itself)

      Statement · Valar Atomics, in a written statement to NPR

      Valar Atomics said 'No construction begins before permits and approvals,' and that it is committed to public engagement on the project. NPR national outlet

    10. (said in the source itself)

      Statement · Lexi Tuddenham, 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.' KSL local outlet

    11. (said in the source itself)

      Statement · Neal Clark, 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.' NPR national outlet

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

      Figure · Valar Atomics' proposal to federal regulators, as NPR reported it, NPR

      9.6 GW: 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. (Reactor output at full buildout) NPR national outlet

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

      Figure · Bureau of Land Management, Utah office, KSL

      9,000 acres: Valar Atomics' application to the Bureau of Land Management covers approximately 9,000 acres of public land near Price, the bureau told KSL. (Federal land in the application) KSL local outlet

On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.

For researchers
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valar-atomics-price-data-center-ut
Status value
permitting
Events on the timeline
3
Under the months
18
Stage changes
2
Decisions
0
Statements
11
Figures
7
Entries and decisions under the months
0