The data centers, and what is actually built.

One operating campus and three names at earlier stages, as of August 2026. Meta's campus opened its first building in 2021 and is the only one running. QTS is building a 193 acre campus that topped out on 17 April 2026 with its first three buildings set to finish later that year. Tract holds more than 668 acres and develops land and power rather than building data centres itself. Google bought 300 acres on Pony Express Parkway in October 2021 and has announced no construction since.

Not as of August 2026. Construction began in September 2025, the last structural beam was placed on 17 April 2026 with around two thousand construction workers on site for the topping out, and the first three buildings, each of roughly 579,000 to 592,000 square feet, were set to finish later in 2026. Five buildings are planned in all. The company has put the commitment at six billion dollars across 193 acres and projects about a hundred permanent jobs once the campus is complete.

Land and process, mostly. The city holds a large supply of flat, unencumbered ground captured by annexations in the 1990s, and its Regional Technology Innovation overlay permits data centres, advanced manufacturing and research uses by right with an expedited administrative review of site plans and permits. Developers cite that overlay directly when explaining the choice. Utah's data centre sales tax position and the availability of new transmission capacity do the rest. It is the same quality of ground that made the city cheap to assemble in the first place.

That is the live local question and it does not have a clean public answer. In 2018 the city agreed with Meta to keep the facility's monthly water use confidential and to notify the company when records were requested. House Bill 76 of the 2026 general session, Data Center Water Transparency Amendments, now requires qualifying operators to report water use ahead of construction and annually, and took effect in May 2026. Whether its duties reach an already operating facility is a question to settle by reading the statute rather than a summary.

The company says its system is closed loop, filled once and consuming no additional water for cooling once running, and its executives repeated that in the April 2026 coverage of the topping out. Closed loop cooling is a genuinely different design from evaporative cooling and comparable Utah facilities have reported recirculating volumes in the tens of thousands of gallons rather than hundreds of millions a year. It should be read as a design commitment rather than an operating record, because as of August 2026 no building on that campus had opened.

Yes, and the city documents it. Water used at the Meta campus is treated by the city to Type 1 effluent standard, the state's bar for irrigating public landscape, and used to water Cory B. Wride Memorial Park. The city puts the saving at nearly seventy eight million gallons of potable water in 2024. The project began in 2020, required filtration plant at the treatment facility and at the park plus a booster station, cost roughly five million dollars and became fully operational in June 2024. The city says it intends to extend it.

Far fewer than the investment figures suggest, and that is the nature of the industry rather than a criticism of these projects. QTS projects about a hundred permanent jobs once its campus is complete, against a six billion dollar commitment. Construction employment is a different and much larger number for a limited period: around two thousand construction workers were on site for the QTS topping out in April 2026. Data centres change a city's tax base, its power infrastructure and its construction economy more than its payroll.

Holding and developing land rather than operating data centres. Tract closed on more than 668 acres in January 2024 across two parcels, including a 225 acre technology park, and its business is preparing sites and power and then selling or leasing pads to operators. It has said it is working with Rocky Mountain Power toward more than 400 megawatts of new transmission capacity by 2028. As of August 2026 nothing vertical had been committed on that ground, which is why it appears in coverage of the cluster without appearing on the skyline.

Not as far as anything published shows. Google bought a 300 acre parcel on Pony Express Parkway in October 2021, across from the Meta campus, described at the time as a potential data centre site with no confirmed timeline, alongside a written commitment to spend in the area over a long horizon. No construction has been announced since. It is accurate to describe it as land held by Google and inaccurate to describe it as a project underway, and the two get conflated in almost every summary of this cluster.