We bring and pay for our own power
Zero draw on the municipal grid.
We keep the air clean
Near-zero local air emissions.
We use water carefully
A fraction of typical use.
Same building, better use
Adaptive reuse, no new structure.
A good neighbor
Meaningful community contribition.
We Bring Our Own Power, So We Don't Take Yours.
100%
Off-grid fuel cell generation
No interconnection to Spanish Fork Power. Not even as backup. No transmission upgrades, no substation, no rate impact, no capacity taken from city growth.
Zero
Diesel generators on site
Modular blocks are individually serviceable while the rest carry load.
Confirmed
Enbridge gas capacity
A new dedicated lateral means zero impact on existing residential or commercial gas customers.
Fuel Cells convert chemical energy directly into electricity through an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen. No moving parts, no combustion. Fuel cells generate power electrochemically, not by burning fuel.
There’s no open flame and no combustion emissions. Just clean, reliable electricity suited for large-scale, grid-independent generation.
Multiple gigawatts of ultra-low emission capacity already deployed worldwide across data centers, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure
The Emissions That Matter Locally, Addressed.
Utah County sits in the Southern Wasatch Front ozone non-attainment area, where nitrogen oxides (NOx) are the pollutant regulators watch most closely.
This Facility
5.17 tons/yr
Entire permitted annual NOx total. About 2,050 cars.
Spanish Fork Traffic
106 tons/yr
From roughly 42,000 city vehicles alone.
Utah County Traffic
1,640 tons/yr
From roughly 650,000 vehicles countywide.
Permit Status
Intent to Approve
Minor Source air permit under public review by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality through September 5. Formal approval expected mid-September.
All figures in tons per year. Facility NOxper air-quality permit application. Traffic NOx from Utah DAQ/EPA MOVES mobile-source inventory estimates.
We Use Water Carefully.
Cooling
Closed loop
No evaporative towers, no plume.
Initial fill
500,000 gal
Two Utah households for one year.
Annual usage
250,000 gal
One Utah County household
Commitment
Within permit
Under the permitted allocation.
"We are not requesting any additional water rights."
If we used evaporative towers
650M + gal/yr
= 3,400 Utah County households
What we actually use
250k gal/yr
One Utah household
Based on Utah County's 2024 per-capita consumptive water use (155 gal/pearsoon/dau/ Central Utah Water Concervancy District, filed with the Utah Division of Water Rights, June 2025) x 3.39 persons/household (U.S. Census Bureau, Utah County, 2020-20224 ACS 5-yrest.)
Same Building, New Purpose.
Where we are building
This land already reads as energy and logistics infrastructure.
Sits at the canyon mouth, beside the existing wind turbines
Adjacent to the active rail line
Fronts the highway corridor
Existing industrial building, No greenfield construction
<65 dBA
Noise at 10 ft per unit. Conversation level. Property-line acoustic study underway.
No change
To the skyline. Interior fit-out of an existing building only.
Dark-sky
Compliant exterior lightning throughout the site.
~$4B
Total project investment covering retrofit, fuel cells, electrical, fire, security, and engineering.
From 6,900 Trucks a Month to a Few Dozen Cars a Day
FULLY ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION USE
85 loading bays
~6,900 trucks/month. 69,000 truck-miles/month at a 10-mile round trip to the freeway corridor
Monthly tailpipe emissions from that traffic alone: ~116 metric tons CO2, ~103 kg NOX, ~ 2.1kg PM2.5
=1,400 metric tons CO2 • =1,230 kg NOx • =25kg PM2.5 per year, at this baseline volume*
FULL DATA CENTER OPERATIONS
~100-200 employee vehicle trips/day.
No recurring heavy-truck traffic
No loading-dock operations; the yard holds fuel cells, not freight
The baseline traffic emissions: effectively eliminated,
not added to
*Estimates for full occupancy by a distribution tenant, based on ITE Trip Generation and SCAQMD warehouse truck-trip rates applied to the building's total sq ft, at a 10-mile round trip to the freeway corridor.
"The truck traffic this site generates today is the baseline. This project doesn't add to it. It removes it."
A Major Taxpayer, And a Present Neighbor.
~$40M
Per year in combined property taxes.
One of the largest tax bills in the county,
with the largest share flowing to Nebo School District.
400-600
Peak construction workers during the retrofit.
100-200
Permanent full-time roles in operations, security, controls, and Bloom maintenance.
Direct Contribution & Covenant
More than $500,000 in direct contribitions.
Professional industry training and education
Nebo School District CTE pathways and UVU engineering internships
Paid apprenticenships
Local presence: sponsorships, local hiring preference, and a standing
community liaison
Property tax based on estimated project value at a combined Utah County / Spanish Fork / Nebo SD rate of ~0.9-1.0%, declining as personal property depreciates. Pending confirmation with the Utah County Assessor.
We'll Put This in the Development Agreement
Council has heard confident promises from data center developers before. Our answer is to volunteer enforceability, in writing, in the agreement itself.
Water use cap
No-grid-interconnection covenant
Decommissioning plan: modular skids, removable by truck
Enforceable noise limit at the property line
No-diesel covenant
Annual public reporting on all of the above
Community questions, answered.
We held open houses at the Spanish Fork Library on August 13, 14, and 15, where residents reviewed the project in detail and put questions directly to our team. Those questions and our responses are compiled below by topic.
Select any topic below to download the full answers as a PDF, or download all topics in one PDF.
Water
How much water the facility uses, why the cooling loop stays closed, and the cap the City can enforce.
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Air Quality
What the fuel cells emit, what the state permit allows, and how compliance is monitored.
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Noise
The decibel limits at the property line and at homes, and what happens if we exceed them.
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Heat
How much heat the site releases, where it goes, and how canyon air disperses it.
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Carbon
Our emissions stated plainly, including where we compare well and where we don't.
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Power & the Grid
Why we generate our own power on-site and never draw from or feed the City's system.
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Neighborhood Health & Safety
Electromagnetic fields, fire response, lighting, and what the research does and doesn't show.
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Taxes, Jobs & Community Benefit
What the project pays each year, who it employs, and what returns to the community.
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Accountability & Process
Annual public reporting, enforcement, and decommissioning requirements.
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