A 640-acre data center could be built in Iron County, Utah.

The ‘Antelope Data Center,’ backed by developer Pronghorn Development, LLC, was discussed last Thursday in an Iron County Planning Commission meeting.

The purpose of the discussion was to “review questions related to the proposed project,” and answers to some of those questions have been posted as a linked document.

No action, public hearing, or public comment relating to the data center occurred at Thursday's meeting.

According to Iron County, the data center campus would consist of five buildings totaling approximately 1.35 million sq ft (125,000 sqm) and a natural gas power plant offering up to 1.5GW at full buildout.

Should it be built, the facility would be located along Antelope Spring Road, approximately 7.8 miles (12.6km) west of Iron Spring Road, Cedar City, Utah.

The data center would use a closed-loop cooling system, and Iron County states that it would create “670 direct jobs… in fields such as information technology, power engineering, facility management, security, and administration.”

Located in southwestern Utah, Iron County shares a border with Nevada. Cedar City is the county’s largest city.

Most of Utah’s data centers are clustered around Salt Lake City.