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  "attribution": "Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0. Link to the specific record page where possible.",
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      "slug": "valar-atomics-price-data-center-ut",
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      "summary": "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.",
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        {
          "title": "2 big data centers are coming to Utah’s coal country. How they’ll be powered has residents ‘up in arms.’",
          "url": "https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/09/24/residents-up-arms-over-carbon/",
          "publisher": "The Salt Lake Tribune",
          "date": "2026-09-24",
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        {
          "title": "A startup wants to build a massive nuclear powered data center on public land in Utah",
          "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5983482/valar-atomic-nuclear-data-center-project-beehive-utah",
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          "date": "2026-09-30",
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        {
          "title": "Nuclear powered AI data center proposed on state and federal land in central eastern Utah",
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          "date": "2026-09-30",
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          "title": "Board of Trustees meeting materials, September 17, 2026",
          "url": "https://www.utah.gov/pmn/files/1488167.pdf",
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          "date": "2026-09-14",
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        },
        {
          "title": "A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah",
          "url": "https://www.gpb.org/news/2026/09/30/startup-wants-build-massive-nuclear-powered-data-center-on-public-land-in-utah",
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          "date": "2026-09-30",
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          "source_date": "2026-09-30",
          "summary": "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.",
          "source_url": "https://www.ksl.com/article/51630741/nuclear-powered-ai-data-center-proposed-on-state-and-federal-land-in-central-eastern-utah",
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          "summary": "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.",
          "source_url": "https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/09/24/residents-up-arms-over-carbon/",
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          "summary": "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.",
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