Salt Lake City.

The market right now

Utah's SB132 lets loads over 100 MW contract for or build off-grid power, and roughly 200 MW of on-site generation is already approved at each of QTS Eagle Mountain and Novva West Jordan. UOSH, the state OSHA plan, covers the sites; DOPL licenses the electricians. The grid constraint means energization schedules slip, then compress — the classic recipe for commissioning-phase pressure.

• 54 data centers, ~9.96M sq ft and 1,015 MW metro-wide; 12th-largest US market with 8 facilities under construction (Baxtel, 2026)
• Meta's Eagle Mountain campus anchors the market: 5+ buildings, ~450 MW operational; $1.5B Phase 3 takes the site toward ~4.5M sq ft (Baxtel 2026; Deseret News 2022)
• QTS is building a $6B, 193-acre, 3-building Eagle Mountain campus with ~2,000 construction workers on site; completion expected late 2026 (Utah News Dispatch, 2026)
• Novva's West Jordan campus totals ~175 MW across three buildings, ~1.5M sq ft (Baxtel 2026; Utah News Dispatch 2026)
• Rocky Mountain Power told Novva it cannot deliver new large-load grid power until ~2031, pushing operators to self-generation (Lehi Free Press, 2026)

Every campus on the map

Solid copper markers are operating campuses; white markers are under construction; dashed outlines are announced or planned. Locations are approximate campus-level centroids compiled from public sources — county records, operator announcements, and market reports — as of August 2026. Dense clusters are grouped. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.

Operating campuses mapped

• Meta Eagle Mountain — Meta · Eagle Mountain. ~450 MW operational across 5+ buildings; market's largest operator (Baxtel, 2026)
• Novva West Jordan — Novva Data Centers · West Jordan. ~175 MW across 3 buildings; HQ campus with recirculating cooling (Baxtel, 2026)
• Aligned SLC campus — Aligned Data Centers · West Jordan / SLC. SLC-01 to SLC-04; SLC-03 is market's largest single building at 80 MW / 480k sq ft (Baxtel, 2026)
• DataBank SLC cluster — DataBank · Salt Lake City & Bluffdale. SLC1-SLC6 plus Granite Point campus in Bluffdale (Baxtel, 2026)
• Flexential SLC sites — Flexential · Salt Lake metro. 7 colocation facilities across the metro (Baxtel, 2026)
• NSA Utah Data Center — US Government / NSA · Bluffdale (Camp Williams). ~1.5M sq ft, 65 MW federal facility (Baxtel, 2026)

Under construction & planned

• QTS Eagle Mountain — QTS · Eagle Mountain · under construction. $6B, 193 acres, three ~580-590k sq ft buildings; closed-loop cooling; completion late 2026 (Utah News Dispatch, 2026)
• Google Eagle Mountain — Google · Eagle Mountain · planned. 300 acres acquired 2021 near Meta; build delayed by power constraints (Data Center Frontier; Lehi Free Press 2026)
• Novva expansion + on-site gen — Novva Data Centers · West Jordan · under construction. Campus buildout with ~200 MW self-generation approved Dec 2024 (Lehi Free Press, 2026)
• Cirrus DS View 78 — Cirrus Data Services · Midvale · under construction. 32 MW launching Q3 2026, expandable to 160 MW (Baxtel, 2026)
• Aligned West Jordan expansion — Aligned Data Centers · West Jordan · under construction. 50 MW campus on 60 acres (Baxtel, 2026)
• Edged SLC — Edged (Endeavour) · Bluffdale · planned. Large waterless-cooling facility in permitting/early works (Baxtel, 2026)
• Tract land banks — Tract · Eagle Mountain / west metro · planned. Three master-planned holdings incl. Pole Canyon and Pony Express tech parks (Baxtel, 2026)

Power

Service territory: Rocky Mountain Power (PacifiCorp).

• Grid capacity is the binding constraint: Google delayed its Eagle Mountain campus over power availability (Lehi Free Press, 2026)
• Utah SB132 lets loads over 100 MW contract or build off-grid generation; Joule Capital (4+ GW target) and Creekstone (10 GW target) planned in Millard County (Lehi Free Press, 2026)
• On-site generation approved: ~200 MW at QTS Eagle Mountain and ~200 MW at Novva West Jordan, approved Dec 2024 (Lehi Free Press, 2026)
• Gov. Cox's Operation Gigawatt pushes new in-state generation incl. nuclear, but delivery is years out (Lehi Free Press, 2026)

The regulatory picture

Enforcement. State plan: Utah Occupational Safety and Health (UOSH) under the Utah Labor Commission enforces workplace safety in Utah.

Licensing. Statewide electrician licensing through Utah DOPL (apprentice, journeyman, master electrician classifications) under the Utah Construction Trades Licensing Act.

Also in play. Utah SB132 enables 100+ MW off-grid generation deals; Utah offers data center sales-tax incentives cited by Aligned as among the most attractive in the nation (Data Center Frontier).

What it means for the work

When a colo campus owns 200 MW of generation, its electricians inherit utility-class hazards: paralleling gear, gen-tie switching, protection schemes that don't sleep. That's a different 70E program than a dual-utility-feed building, and crews moving between the two need to know which one they're standing in.

UOSH state-plan jurisdiction plus a ~2,000-worker QTS build means concentrated NFPA 70E and commissioning-phase arc-flash training demand through 2026-2027.

Approved 200 MW on-site generation blocks at QTS and Novva put facility crews around utility-scale switchgear, paralleling gear and gen-tie work beyond normal colo scope.

Grid-constrained market: energization schedules slip and compress, driving high-pressure switching and temporary-power work at Eagle Mountain and West Jordan.