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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Zenith Development
- Address and locality
- Burmester · Tooele County · Utah
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 25 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001591
What the source record says
500MW on-site gas-fired data center campus (~200-600 acre portion of a larger ~600-acre Tooele Valley Public Infrastructure District development that also includes a truck stop, hotel, and warehouses near I-80); backed by Utah Inland Port Authority financing. Developer plans a reverse-osmosis plant discharging ~250,000 gallons/day of brine into Great Salt Lake wetlands, drawing significant local opposition. Subsidies checked (2026-09-08): no site-level subsidy confirmed for this parcel. A $4.875M Utah Inland Port Authority Infrastructure Bank loan was reported in April 2024 to Zenith Bolinder, LLC — the Delaware LLC that petitioned UIPA in March 2024 to create the Tooele Valley Public Infrastructure District, representing 100% of surface property owners within it, and which KSL describes as "a partnership with longtime Utah developer Zenith Development"; Charles Akerlow appears both as the petition's contact sponsor and as Zenith Development's managing director. The two are affiliated but are not the same legal entity, the loan terms were not confirmed against a primary document, and the district's boundary exhibit is a scanned image that could not be read — so whether that loan reaches this data-centre parcel is unresolved. UIPA's executive director stated in July 2026 that the authority's involvement covers transportation within a 600-acre portion and does not extend to the southern section planned for the data centre.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-07-27 · reported proposed
Public hearing held on a state water-discharge permit (UPDES UT0026409) required for the project; permit still pending as of the hearing.
Sources and attribution
- A 500MW Utah Data Center Wants to Dump 250,000 Gallons of Waste Water Into the Great Salt Lake Daily · Yahoo News
- Concern about data center impacts on Great Salt Lake grows, now for Tooele project's wastewater · Standard-Examiner
- Utahns speak out as yet another data center is planned near the Great Salt Lake · The Salt Lake Tribune
- Petition Requesting the Creation of TV Public Infrastructure District (26 March 2024) — petitioner/owner Zenith Bolinder, LLC (a Delaware LLC), contact sponsor Charles Akerlow, representing 100% of surface property owners within the proposed district · Utah Inland Port Authority
- $80M bond offering, 100 acres under contract: Tooele County's Inland Port project underway — states Zenith Bolinder LLC is "a partnership with longtime Utah developer Zenith Development" and names Chuck Akerlow as Zenith Development's managing director · KSL
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID zenith-tooele-valley-burmester-ut. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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