The claim

Another data center is being built

“They're building another data center in Eagle Mountain.”

Seen: A city Facebook group, August 2026; and public comment to the council since at least February 2026.

Our finding Accurate

The record supports it as stated.

Yes, and the votes are on file. What is being built is more of what is already here: every data center approval in the record since 2024 is an expansion by Meta or QTS, not a new company arriving.

The numbers

Operators on fileMeta, Google and QTS3

QTS-SCL 2 rezonedacreage and new zoning not stated in the motion3 Mar 2026

Meta agreement21 Oct 2025, with Stadion, LLC4–1

What’s true

Three campuses are already named in the city's own record (Meta, Google and QTS), and building has not stopped. QTS's SLC1 site was still under construction this spring, when the council let it work outside the hours city code normally allows. A second QTS parcel, the land the motion calls QTS-SCL 2, was rezoned on March 3. And on October 21 the council approved a development agreement with Stadion, LLC, the company known as Meta, on a 4–1 vote, along with a third amendment to its water and sewer agreement the same night.

Worth knowing

“Another” suggests a new operator. Nothing in the record shows one. It is also worth knowing what has not happened yet: the newest land in play (the parcel west of the Pony Express area that QTS has bought) was described to the council on August 4 as still zoned agricultural. Farmland cannot be built on until the council rezones it, and a rezone is a public vote with a public hearing in front of it.

More detail

The scale of it gets overstated in both directions. A resident told the council in February that they had read five more had been approved. In the twelve months before that comment the council passed four measures touching the data centers: a road realignment at the Meta site, the Meta development agreement, the water and sewer amendment beside it, and a sign-code rule for directional signage, and none of the four approved a new data center.

The motions themselves are thin, which is a fair complaint about the record rather than about the claim. The QTS-SCL 2 rezone does not state the acreage or the new zoning, and the Meta development agreement does not list its terms. The votes are public; what was voted on is often summarized in a single line.

Where this comes from

Every finding here is drawn from an open-meeting recording or a published document. Check it yourself.

Rezone the land known as QTS-SCL 2Passed unanimously. The motion does not state the acreage or the new zoning.The vote, March 3, 2026

Longer construction hours at the QTS SLC1 sitePassed 4–0, the site was under construction this spring.The vote, March 25, 2026

Development agreement with Stadion, LLC, the company known as MetaPassed 4–1, the only split vote among these.The vote, October 21, 2025

“We've also learned that QTS, of course, bought the property to the west, which is zoned agricultural now but could also go industrial.”

A business owner, addressing the councilThe meeting, August 4, 2026 Read the transcript

“I ask that the city pass a law to help stop further data centers from being approved to build in our city. I read that 5 more have been approved.”

A resident, in public commentThe February comment the detail above refers to, six months before the same claim reached a Facebook thread.The meeting, February 17, 2026 Read the transcript

More checks on data centers

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Checked August 19, 2026. Nothing goes on the fact-check list unless an open-meeting recording or a published document can settle it: the rules. Spot a mistake? civicrollcall@gmail.com