Data Center Registry
Project Beehive
Price, Carbon County, Utah
Project Beehive is a proposed data center in Price, Utah (Carbon County), operated by Valar Atomics. The public record puts it at announced September 30, 2026.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Valar Atomics
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Price, Carbon County, UT
- Coordinates
- 39.5994, -110.8107 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- September 30, 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- Nuclear
- On site generation
- 9.6 GW
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- 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.
- September 30, 2026ProposedBLM Utah confirmed it received Valar's application for more than 9,000 acres near Price. Utah Trust Lands approved a roughly 640-acre Carbon County lease on Sept 17, 2026. Source: East Idaho News / KSL
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 13, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Project Beehive in Price, Carbon 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
Company documents reported by NPR describe about 456 small gas-cooled reactors totaling up to about 9.6 GW, plus nuclear fuel production and waste storage facilities.
Notes on the record
More than 9,000 acres of BLM land near Price, under completeness review, plus about 640 acres of state trust land in Carbon County. Non-nuclear construction is targeted as early as the end of 2026 and first reactors in 2028. The location is approximate (Price). This is separate from Valar's Ward 250 test reactor at the San Rafael Energy Lab and from its withdrawn Green River BLM application.
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
- Permanent jobs promised
- 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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- 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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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Project Beehive data center in Price?
Nothing on record as of October 13, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Project Beehive in Price, Carbon 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 Project Beehive data center?
No lawsuit over Project Beehive appears in the record we track as of October 13, 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 Project Beehive use?
No water withdrawal figure for Project Beehive 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 Project Beehive, and how big is it?
Valar Atomics is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Beehive," updated October 13, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/valar-atomics-project-beehive-price-ut.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/valar-atomics-project-beehive-price-ut, retrieved October 29, 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.Nuclear-powered AI data center proposed on state and federal land in central eastern Utah (KSL) · East Idaho News / KSL · retrieved October 13, 2026
- 2.9,000-acre nuclear-powered data center proposed on public lands in Utah · Resilience.org (More Than Just Parks) · retrieved October 13, 2026
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