Projects
Project Antelope data center west of Cedar City
Unincorporated Iron County, Iron County
640 acres
🕒 June 4, 2026: Iron County Planning Commission unanimously approved the conditional use permit.
ProposedRed Butte energy and data center campus (BrightNight)
Unincorporated Iron County, Iron County
2,600 acres
🕒 May 26, 2026: Iron County adopted a 180-day pause on new data center applications; Red Butte is on hold.
Local votes and rules
✅ Approved · Iron County
The county planning commission unanimously approved a conditional use permit for Pronghorn Development's 'Project Antelope': up to five data center buildings (6.75 million sq ft) and a gas power plant of up to 1.5 gigawatts on about 640 acres along Antelope Springs Road, west of Cedar City. The permit has 62 conditions, including noise monitoring, water and dark-sky rules.
⏸️ Pause on new data centers · Iron County
County commissioners passed an emergency 180-day pause on new applications for data centers, data center power plants and solar power plants (Ordinance 2026-13). It does not stop the Pronghorn 'Project Antelope' data center, whose application was already complete. It does pause BrightNight's Red Butte project. On August 10, 2026 the commission took up a change (Ordinance 2026-18) so the pause does not cover battery storage projects that already had a permit.
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