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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Project Beehive.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Valar Atomics
- Address and locality
- Price · Carbon County · Utah
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 13 October 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-002011
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.
- Power source
- Nuclear
- On-site generation
- 9,600 MW (source-reported)
- Announced
- 30 September 2026
Provider notes
Energy. 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.
What the source record says
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 This is separate from Valar's Ward 250 test reactor at the San Rafael Energy Lab and from its withdrawn Green River BLM application.
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
- 2026-09-30 · source-reported proposed
BLM 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.
Sources and attribution
- Nuclear-powered AI data center proposed on state and federal land in central eastern Utah (KSL) · East Idaho News / KSL
- 9,000-acre nuclear-powered data center proposed on public lands in Utah · Resilience.org (More Than Just Parks)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID valar-atomics-project-beehive-price-ut. 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-002011
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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.
Location and precision
- Price, UT · Carbon (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Valar Atomics
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 30 September 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-09-30 · source-reported proposed
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.
- Power source: Nuclear
Provider label.
- On-site generation: 9,600 MW (source-reported)
On-site figures often describe backup generators rather than primary supply; read the provider energy note.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-10-13
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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