Utah County, Utah

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

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Key takeaways

Utah County has 683,622 residents, the second-most-populous county in Utah. Eagle Mountain alone is 60,575 residents in 2024, up from 43,623 in 2020, a 39% jump in four years that has nothing to do with the Meta campus and everything to do with cheap Wasatch Front housing.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003 (Utah County, UT) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Eagle Mountain, Utah)
Median household income in Utah County is $96,877 against a $489,200 median home value and a 25.5 median age, the youngest county in this batch by a wide margin. The Mormon family-formation pipeline keeps the workforce expanding faster than data centers can recruit from it.Source: Census ACS 2023 B19013, B25077, B01002 (FIPS 49049)
Rocky Mountain Power residential rates rose 13.6% from 2021 to 2023 and property tax assessments rose 17.5% over the same window, the second-steepest tax move of any county in this batch. Meta's Eagle Mountain campus is one of nine PacifiCorp data-center loads driving the Wasatch Front rate case.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (PacifiCorp, UT) + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 49049)
Home prices rose 6.0% over three years against a $96,877 median income, modest by Utah standards. Eagle Mountain's growth has been absorbing the rate-and-tax pressure that is showing up first on the assessor's roll.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv (FIPS 49049) + Census ACS 2023 B19013

Only 3.2% of Utah County adults are veterans, the lowest veteran share of any county in this batch by a wide margin. Meta's Eagle Mountain workforce will recruit from a young Mormon talent pool, not the federal-employee pipeline that anchors NOVA.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (FIPS 49049)
92.0% of Utah County households have a home broadband subscription and only 8.7% live below the poverty line. The combination is unusual in this batch and reflects the BYU and Silicon Slopes overlap inside one county.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002, B17001 (FIPS 49049)
The county is 83.7% white, 13.9% Hispanic, 1.5% Asian, and 0.7% Black, the smallest Black share of any data-center county in this batch. The Hispanic share is the only non-white population large enough to register.Source: Census ACS 2023 B02001, B03003 (FIPS 49049)
Median gross rent in Utah County is $1,441 per month against a 68.1% owner-occupancy rate. Manufacturing employs 9.0% of the workforce, larger than Loudoun's 4.4% and on par with Mecklenburg's 9.6%.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064, B25003, C24050 (FIPS 49049)