Developer eyes ‘GoldMine’ data center project in Fairfield, near Eagle Mountain’s Meta campus

Source Scout · Utah News Dispatch reports: Environmental group raises concern for water-strapped Cedar Valley, whether tiny town of Fairfield has enough resources to support a data center, and if enough people even know it’s being proposed A street sign at the boundary line of Fairfield and Eagle Mountain is pictured on Sept. 23, 2026. (Katie McKellar/Utah News Dispatch) In the small Utah town of Fairfield with a population of roughly 180 people — near the border of Eagle Mountain, where some 65,000 people live — a developer wants to build a project named “GoldMine,” which could include hundreds of acres for another data center in the Cedar Valley.

Scoop News DeskFairfield, Nebraska · Published Friday, September 25, 2026 at 11:01 AM UTCUpdated Friday, September 25, 2026 at 1:49 PM UTC

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