Data Center Registry
Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus
Newcastle, Iron County, Utah
Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus is a proposed data center in Newcastle, Utah (Iron County), operated by BrightNight. The public record puts it at 1.5 GW planned, 2,600 acres.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- BrightNight
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Newcastle, Iron County, UT
- Coordinates
- 37.6949, -113.9430 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 1.5 GW planned
- Land
- 2,600 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Mixed
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 500 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- May 22, 2026ProposedApplication submitted May 4, 2026 and deemed incomplete May 22, 2026; on hold under Iron County's 180-day data center moratorium. Source: Iron County, Utah
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 1, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus in Newcastle, Iron County, Utah appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Planned hybrid power: 300MW solar, 1,200MWh battery storage, and 1.5GW natural gas generation.
"expected to rely primarily on air-cooled and closed-loop cooling systems designed to reduce water consumption." Recorded as closed_loop per the methodology tie-breaker: air-cooled chillers over a recirculating circuit are closed_loop; `air` is reserved for designs with no cooling water circuit at all.
Notes on the record
Approximately 8 miles north of Newcastle, roughly 20 miles from Cedar City; application on hold pending the county's data-center moratorium. Subsidies checked (2026-09-08): structural zero, the project is proposed and on hold under Iron County's moratorium, and no Iron County or Newcastle CRA/RDA was found to execute a pre-approval participation agreement; Utah's EDTIF programme excludes data centres and the UCA 59-12-104 exemption is self-executing.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus in Newcastle?
Nothing on record as of September 1, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus in Newcastle, Iron County, Utah appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus?
No lawsuit over Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of September 1, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus, and how big is it?
BrightNight is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 1.5 GW. The site is recorded at 2600 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus," updated September 1, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/brightnight-red-butte-newcastle-ut.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/brightnight-red-butte-newcastle-ut, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Red Butte Energy and Data Center Campus · BrightNight · retrieved August 25, 2026
- 2.Proposed Data Center Information, Iron County · Iron County, Utah · retrieved August 25, 2026
- 3.AI campus proposed in Iron County could bring 500 jobs, on-site power generation · St. George News · retrieved September 1, 2026
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