A Utah county greenlit a massive data center and nuclear energy project. Residents never got a chance to weigh in.

Price — Carbon County officials gave a massive proposed nuclear, natural gas and data center project the green light with a series of conditions on Thursday, Nov. 12. Representatives from Valor Atomic present their plans at Carbon County Planning Commission on Thursday, Nov. 12. Photo by Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune The county’s planning commission approved a conditional use permit for Valar Atomics’ proposed Raceway Energy Campus — a large industrial project on 640 acres of land owned by the Utah Trust Lands Administration — after nearly two hours of discussion between the company and planning commissioners. This permit does not mean the project will break ground immediately, though. The company will still need to get a building permit and various plans, such as a traffic plan, approved by the county. It also will need state and federal approvals, such as an air quality permit from the Utah Division of Air Quality and a construction permit from the U.S.

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