Bannock County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Bannock County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: City Council affirms denial of Hoku data center a second time (Pocatello), September 22, 2026.
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Pocatello, Bannock County · Lex Developments
No dated entry on the record yet.
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1 data center in Bannock County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
| City | Projects | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Pocatello | 1 | 1 |
What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.
City Council affirms denial of Hoku data center a second time, reported September 22, 2026.
City Council affirms denial of Hoku data center a second time
· Pocatello
Denial: City Council affirms denial of Hoku data center a second time idahostatejournal.com local outlet
Josh Johnson stated that a medium sized data center can use about as much water as an 18 hole golf course or a large alfalfa field.
Every Idaho statement, by speaker
central Idaho director for the Idaho Conservation League
Josh Johnson, Idaho Conservation League, stated that the Stratos data center in Box Elder County, Utah is predicted to need at least 7 gigawatts of energy, which is more than twice the current energy consumption of the entire state of Utah.
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 1 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Bannock County is for.
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Bannock County is cooled.
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Bannock County, Idaho", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/id/bannock-county, updated September 22, 2026.
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Bannock County, Idaho", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/id/bannock-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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