Data Center Registry
FBI Grey Wolf Data Center
Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho
FBI Grey Wolf Data Center is an operating data center in Pocatello, Idaho (Bannock County), operated by Federal Bureau of Investigation (U.S. Department of Justice). The public record puts it at a reported $100 million investment.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (U.S. Department of Justice)
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Duckett Byrnes Street, Pocatello, Bannock County, ID
- Coordinates
- 42.9048, -112.4639 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $100 million
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 300 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over FBI Grey Wolf Data Center in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho 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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Notes on the record
A ~$100 million expansion (dubbed 'Grey Wolf') consolidating IT operations for the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, a U.S. Attorney's Office, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Treasury Department, as part of a nationwide DOJ consolidation from roughly 110 data centers down to three (Pocatello, ID; Clarksburg, WV; Sterling, VA) -- reported to have generated over $135 million in savings. 140,000 sq ft total: 100,000 sq ft of secure data-center space plus 40,000 sq ft of office space. Broke ground October 2017; ribbon-cutting held 2019-11-18, with 300 staff at opening and stated room to grow by roughly 250 more over two to five years. Coordinates corrected 2026-09-12 from a Pocatello city-centroid placeholder to the OpenStreetMap POI for the FBI facility on Duckett Byrnes Street (cited below); the pin is building-level, not parcel-surveyed, hence precision remains approximate. Neither press source fetched stated a street address or MW capacity. aiClassification omitted: this is general-purpose government IT/records infrastructure, not an AI-oriented facility.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- 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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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Lex Developments AI Data Center (former Hoku polysilicon site) · Pocatello · Lex Developments2 mi · Cancelled · Contested
- GeoBitmine Bingham County Facility · Aberdeen · GeoBitmine19 mi · Proposed · 6 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the FBI Grey Wolf Data Center in Pocatello?
Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over FBI Grey Wolf Data Center in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho 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 FBI Grey Wolf Data Center?
No lawsuit over FBI Grey Wolf Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 12, 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 FBI Grey Wolf Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for FBI Grey Wolf Data Center is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates FBI Grey Wolf Data Center, and how big is it?
Federal Bureau of Investigation (U.S. Department of Justice) is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "FBI Grey Wolf Data Center," updated September 12, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/fbi-greywolf-pocatello-id.
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/fbi-greywolf-pocatello-id, 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.New $100 million FBI 'Grey Wolf' data center opens in eastern Idaho · East Idaho News · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 2.FBI cuts ribbon on Pocatello addition · Idaho State Journal · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 3.OpenStreetMap way/584965860, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Duckett Byrnes Street, Pocatello · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 12, 2026
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