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

By: Katie McKellar

Outlets: Utah News Dispatch

Published: September 25, 2026

Words: 2,101

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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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.

The “mixed-use industrial and technology development” to the west of Utah Lake has so far been envisioned to include 140 acres for …

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