Idaho
DataCentersExposed tracks 9 AI data centers in Idaho — 0 operating and 2 in the pipeline — across 4 counties, drawing 258 MW of reported power demand from 2 tracked corporate operators.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Idaho at a glance
The largest footprint in Idaho belongs to Meta Platforms, Inc., behind 1 tracked facility. Lumen Technologies round out the most active operators in the state. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Bear Lake County leads Idaho with 1 facility and a composite risk score of 4/100. Madison County and Ada County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
Idaho is not done growing. 2 facilities are in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 3 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for Idaho below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
2035 Buildout Outlook
Under the model's moderate-growth scenario (5%/yr annual load growth), PNNL's IM3 model sites about 1 standardized 36 MW campus in Idaho by 2035 — roughly 36 MW of new electricity demand and ~35 M gal/yr of cooling water. For scale, we currently track 9 real data centers in Idaho (258 MW of reported power).
- Higher growth136 MW · ~35 M gal/yr cooling water
The model assigns ~100% of these campuses' cooling to evaporative water cooling in Idaho (the rest to mechanical/air cooling), a split it derives from local water stress and wet-bulb temperature.
These are modeled candidate sites, not announced or permitted facilities. PNNL's IM3 model places identical 36 MW unit-campuses at feasible locations under each scenario — it shows where demand could concentrate, never a specific parcel. Figures use a market-gravity weight of 50. How the model works.
Top operators in Idaho
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Lake County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Madison County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Ada County | 1 | 1 | — |
| Bonneville County | 1 | 1 | — |
Pipeline & proposals
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Atomic Data Center | — | Proposed | Bonneville | 60 |
| Meta Kuna | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Under construction | Ada | 198 |
| Family History Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | Bear Lake | — |
| Level(3) Boise | Lumen Technologies | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Neutron - Coeur d'Alene | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Syringa Networks Boise | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| Tonaquint Data Center - Boise ID | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |
| VentureData | — | Mapped (unverified) | Madison | — |
| ark data centers - Boise, ID | — | Mapped (unverified) | — | — |