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Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus

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OperatingMixed receptionAI mixed useRecord updated July 25, 2026

Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus is an operating data center in Eagle Mountain, Utah (Utah County), operated by Meta. The public record puts it at announced 2018, 500 acres, a reported $1.5 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
Meta
Facility type
Data center, AI use mixed
Location
Eagle Mountain, Utah County, UT
Coordinates
40.3138, -111.9697
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
500 acres
Investment
$1.5 billion
Announced
2018
Utility
Rocky Mountain Power (PacifiCorp)
Power source
Solar
Cooling
Hybrid
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
300 permanent; 1,200 construction
Public subsidy
Local property-tax abatement, 100% personal-property + 80% real-property relief for 40 years (Eagle Mountain / Utah County / Alpine School District); one analysis projected up to ~$750M in potential value across all phases, Eagle Mountain / Utah County, UT, 2018 | Utah data-center sales-tax exemption, Utah, 2018
Community reception
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

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.

  1. 2021
    Operating
    First building operational; campus expanded to 7 buildings totaling 4.5 million sq ft Source: Salt Lake Tribune
  2. 2018
    Under construction
    $750M initial campus announced Source: Baxtel

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus in Eagle Mountain, Utah County, Utah appear in the record, with no clear majority position. The city strongly supports the campus (it anchors the general fund; Meta reports $1.5B+ in cumulative Utah data-center investment and $4.1M+ in local school and nonprofit grants since 2019), but arid-Utah water use is contested, state lawmakers passed a 2026 data-center water-reporting law (HB76) partly in response, and the 2018 confidentiality agreement over water data drew criticism.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

The city strongly supports the campus (it anchors the general fund; Meta reports $1.5B+ in cumulative Utah data-center investment and $4.1M+ in local school and nonprofit grants since 2019), but arid-Utah water use is contested, state lawmakers passed a 2026 data-center water-reporting law (HB76) partly in response, and the 2018 confidentiality agreement over water data drew criticism.

Source: Grist

Power and water

100% renewable match via Rocky Mountain Power's Schedule 34 green tariff, backed by dedicated solar PPAs, including the 525 MWac Faraday Solar project (Utah's largest, online Oct 2025), Appaloosa Solar (120 MW), and Graphite Solar (104 MW). Meta says its Utah projects add 1,719 MW of new renewables; buildings are LEED Gold.

Air-side economizer with evaporative assist and multi-pass water reuse. The campus consumed ~35.1 million gallons in 2024 (city data reported by Grist), more than double 2021. A 2018 confidentiality agreement kept monthly water use private and obliged the city to alert Meta to records requests, drawing transparency criticism. Meta pledges 200% water restoration by 2030 (e.g., a $200K Hobble Creek flow-restoration grant).

Public money on the record

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
Local property-tax abatement, 100% personal-property + 80% real-property relief for 40 years (Eagle Mountain / Utah County / Alpine School District); one analysis projected up to ~$750M in potential value across all phasesNot establishedEagle Mountain / Utah County, UT2018
Utah data-center sales-tax exemptionNot establishedUtah2018

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
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.

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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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus in Eagle Mountain?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus in Eagle Mountain, Utah County, Utah appear in the record, with no clear majority position. The city strongly supports the campus (it anchors the general fund; Meta reports $1.5B+ in cumulative Utah data-center investment and $4.1M+ in local school and nonprofit grants since 2019), but arid-Utah water use is contested, state lawmakers passed a 2026 data-center water-reporting law (HB76) partly in response, and the 2018 confidentiality agreement over water data drew criticism.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus?

No lawsuit over Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus appears in the record we track as of July 25, 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 Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus use?

No water withdrawal figure for Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus is on record here. Cooling is recorded as hybrid, 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 Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus, and how big is it?

Meta is the operator on record. We hold 28 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 500 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus," updated July 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/meta-eagle-mountain-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/meta-eagle-mountain-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. 1.Meta Eagle Mountain Utah Campus, Baxtel · Baxtel · retrieved July 5, 2026
  2. 2.Can Utah become a data center hub without draining its water supply?, Great Salt Lake Collaborative / Salt Lake Tribune · Salt Lake Tribune · retrieved July 5, 2026
  3. 3.Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center fact sheet · Meta · retrieved July 6, 2026
  4. 4.Can you build data centers in a desert without draining the water supply?, Grist · Grist · retrieved July 6, 2026
  5. 5.Meta announces mega expansion to Eagle Mountain data center project, Deseret News · Deseret News · retrieved July 6, 2026
  6. 6.Utah's largest solar plant set to power Eagle Mountain data center, Daily Herald · Daily Herald (Utah) · retrieved July 6, 2026

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