QTS Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus

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. 2024

   Under construction
   Construction initially paused, then restarted; 3 buildings ranging 579,000 to 592,000 sq ft; water-free cooling system Source: Utah News Dispatch
2. 2023

   Permitted
   City of Eagle Mountain approved construction; 193-acre campus adjacent to Meta campus Source: Eagle Mountain City

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to QTS Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus in Eagle Mountain, Utah County, Utah appear in the record, with no clear majority position. City officials are formally supportive (a projected ~$12M/year municipal energy tax funds roads, schools, and first responders), and no organized opposition to QTS specifically was found.

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.

City officials are formally supportive (a projected ~$12M/year municipal energy tax funds roads, schools, and first responders), and no organized opposition to QTS specifically was found. But water and energy transparency are actively debated in arid Utah, the 2026 state water-reporting law (HB76) was driven partly by Eagle Mountain's data-center growth, though facilities operational before July 2026 are exempt.

Source: KUTV (CBS Utah)

Power and water

Grid-served by Rocky Mountain Power. After the utility initially could not guarantee sufficient grid power, the city approved on-site gas turbines and a separate 200 MW gas plant as options, but QTS ultimately secured grid supply. QTS declines to disclose the campus's power capacity (third-party trackers estimate over 650 MW at full build-out); it reports portfolio-wide carbon-free electricity for 2024.

A closed-loop system that QTS says does not consume water for cooling once operational, roughly a 600,000-gallon one-time fill per building plus modest domestic use, avoiding an estimated 250 to 300 million gallons/year versus evaporative cooling.

Public money on the record

Notes on the record

Groundbreaking was October 2025; the third of three initial buildings topped out (structural completion) on 2026-04-20. Not yet operational; no delivery date confirmed.

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.

• Meta Eagle Mountain Data Center Campus · Eagle Mountain · Metaunder 1 mile · Operating · Mixed reception
• Google Eagle Mountain Site · Eagle Mountain · Google1 mi · Proposed
• Tract Eagle Mountain Data Center Park · Eagle Mountain · Tract1 mi · Proposed · 400 MW
• QTS Eagle Mountain II · Fairfield · QTS Data Centers7 mi · Under construction · 650 MW
• DataBank Granite Point Campus (SLC2-SLC6) · Bluffdale · DataBank13 mi · Operating
• Flexential Salt Lake City - Lindon · Lindon · Flexential14 mi · Operating
• Voonami Orem Data Center · Orem · Voonami15 mi · Operating · 2 MW
• FiberState SLC1 · Draper · FiberState16 mi · Operating · 4 MW

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