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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Lex Developments AI Data Center (former Hoku polysilicon site).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Lex Developments
- Address and locality
- Pocatello · Bannock County · Idaho
- Official metro area
- Pocatello, ID
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000862
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Announced investment
- $2.26 billion
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- AI-use label (provider)
- confirmed
Provider notes
Community. Hearing Examiner Kathleen Lewis denied the conditional use permit after a 2026-05-14 hearing, finding the application did not meet Pocatello Municipal Code 17.02.130(D)'s criteria that the use adequately serve public facilities and not be detrimental to public health, safety, or welfare; critics said the applicant could not answer specifics of the conditions and no tenant was confirmed pending an Idaho Power capacity study. Lex Developments (represented by Gus Shultz) appealed; the Pocatello City Council voted 4-1 on 2026-07-16 to uphold the denial. …
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What the source record says
Projected investment of $2.26 billion and 150-300 permanent local jobs were part of the developer's denied application (Idaho State Journal), not a built or committed project. No MW capacity, secured tenant, or site acreage was stated in either source fetched. This pin is a Pocatello city-centroid placeholder (precision: approximate): neither source fetched gave a parcel-level address for the former Hoku polysilicon site, and OpenStreetMap has no feature for it. It is NOT a claim about where on the Hoku parcel the proposal sat, and it is not co-located with the FBI Grey Wolf record in this batch, whose pin was corrected to its own OSM building POI 4.0 km north.
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
- 2026-05 · source-reported proposed
Lex Developments sought a conditional use permit for a ~$2.26 billion AI data center at the former Hoku Materials polysilicon plant site (River Park Complex).
- 2026-07 · source-reported cancelled
Pocatello City Council voted 4-1 to uphold the Hearing Examiner's denial of the conditional use permit, ending the local approval path as of retrieval.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Pocatello hearing examiner denies Hoku site data center permit but Lex Developments vows return · Idaho State Journal
- Pocatello City Council Upholds Hearing Examiner's Decision, says "no" to Proposed AI Data Center · KIFI Local News 8
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID lex-developments-pocatello-id. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000862
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Pocatello, ID · Bannock (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Lex Developments
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-05 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-07 · source-reported cancelled
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $2.26 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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