Skip to content
Gridcensus

Datacenter Sites in Box Elder County, Utah

Box Elder County has 125 scored datacenter candidate sites averaging 48.3/100 DC Readiness, with a catalogued aggregate of 650 MW. FEMA rates local natural-hazard risk as "Relatively Low". The county has a datacenter tax incentive on record.

At a glance

Box Elder County, Utah has 125 scored datacenter candidate sites averaging 48.3/100 DC Readiness, roughly in line with the Utah average of 51.7. It ranks 5th of 29 Utah counties by number of sites and 26th by average score. The top-scoring site is Substation-Adjacent site · f8299ab9 at 53.5/100.

125
Candidate sites
48.3/100
Avg DC Readiness
650 MW
Catalogued capacity
theoretical aggregate
Relatively Low
Hazard rating
◆ Loading map…
≥ 7560–7540–60≤ 40
Top 25 in Box Elder County

Site-selection context for Box Elder County

Yessales_tax_exemption
Datacenter tax incentive
9.04¢/kWh
Commercial electricity
7.51¢/kWh
Industrial electricity
10
Fiber providers
High
Water stress
$2,495
Land price / acre
1,000
Cooling degree days
5,500
Heating degree days
49°F
Mean annual temp

Incentive detail: Enterprise Zone tax credits; Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF).

How does Box Elder County compare with other counties in Utah?

By number of scored sites, Box Elder County ranks 5th of the 29 Utah counties with a county page, holding 5.1% of the state's 2,458 sites. Its average DC Readiness of 48.3/100 ranks 26th in the state and is roughly in line with the national average of 53.0. Nationally it has the 237th-largest site inventory of 2,964 counties with five or more sites. 0 sites score 70 or higher and 0 score 55 or higher.

What types of datacenter sites are in Box Elder County?

Federal Excess sites are the most common (90, 72% of the county's inventory), followed by former mine (18) and industrial (10). Site type reflects how the parcel was identified — next to a substation, on a former mine or brownfield, on industrial or federal excess land — and is scored on the same 14 factors either way.

What are power cost, hazard, water and fiber conditions in Box Elder County?

Industrial electricity averages 7.51¢/kWh and commercial 9.04¢/kWh. FEMA's National Risk Index rates the county "Relatively Low" (15). WRI water stress is high. 10 fiber providers report service in the county. The climate runs 1,000 cooling degree days a year with a mean temperature of 49°F. Land is valued around $2,495 an acre.

By site type

Top datacenter sites in Box Elder County

Top datacenter sites in Box Elder County
SiteTypeVoltageCapacityQueue waitScore
UNKNOWN202589Substation-Adjacent115 kV100 MW3.5 yrs53.5
CURLEWSubstation-Adjacent138 kV100 MW3.5 yrs53.4
UNKNOWN206660Substation-Adjacent115 kV100 MW3.5 yrs52.6
UNKNOWN206143Substation-Adjacent138 kV100 MW3.5 yrs52.5
UNKNOWN202591Substation-Adjacent138 kV100 MW3.5 yrs52.3
UNKNOWN206144Substation-Adjacent115 kV100 MW3.5 yrs51.9
TAP206665Substation-Adjacent69 kV50 MW3.5 yrs50.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.8
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.7
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.7
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.7
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.7
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.7
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.6
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.6
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.6
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.6
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.6
WEBER BASINFederal Excess——3.5 yrs48.6

Every scored site in Box Elder County

All 125 sites, best first.

Box Elder County datacenter FAQ

How many datacenter sites are in Box Elder County?

125 scored datacenter candidate sites, averaging 48.3/100 DC Readiness. That is the 5th-most of 29 Utah counties with five or more sites.

What is the highest-scoring datacenter site in Box Elder County?

Substation-Adjacent site · f8299ab9 scores 53.5/100 DC Readiness, the highest of the 125 scored sites in Box Elder County (a substation-adjacent site).

Does Box Elder County offer datacenter tax incentives?

Enterprise Zone tax credits; Economic Development Tax Increment Financing (EDTIF).

What is the natural-hazard risk in Box Elder County?

FEMA's National Risk Index rates Box Elder County as "Relatively Low" (score 15).

What are industrial electricity rates in Box Elder County?

Average industrial electricity is 7.51¢/kWh and commercial is 9.04¢/kWh in Box Elder County.

More in Utah

About this data

Source: GridCensus composite of HIFLD transmission and substation data, EIA, FEMA National Risk Index, FCC broadband data, PeeringDB and ISO interconnection queues, as published November 12, 2026 — GridCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.

Cite as: GridCensus, “Datacenter candidate sites in Box Elder County, Utah”, https://gridcensus.com/datacenter-sites/utah/box-elder-county (data as of November 12, 2026).

Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.

Go deeper than the public screen

Every site and score for Box Elder County, Utah is free to browse. Pro adds Watchtower on 25 sites, alerts when new candidate sites, datacenters or interconnection-queue requests appear in your markets, score and capacity history, and CSV export. Enterprise adds team seats, weekly data files for all 147,272 sites, the REST API and an MCP server for AI tools.

See plansTalk to us