Idaho
DataCentersExposed tracks 3 AI data centers in Idaho — 0 operating and 0 in the pipeline — across 3 counties, drawing 198 MW of reported power demand from 1 tracked corporate operator.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
DataCentersExposed tracks 3 data centers in Idaho. The 1 Idaho facilities with disclosed electrical capacity account for 198 MW of demand on the grid — power that competes with homes and businesses for the same generation and transmission.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Idaho at a glance
The largest footprint in Idaho belongs to Meta Platforms, Inc., behind 1 tracked facility. Many of these sites are filed under shell or project names rather than the parent's — our operator column resolves them back to the real corporate parent wherever the chain is documented.
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Bear Lake County leads Idaho with 1 facility and a composite risk score of 4/100. Madison County and Ada County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
We also surface the accountability trail: 3 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for Idaho below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
Top operators in Idaho
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Lake County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Madison County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Ada County | 1 | — | — |
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta Kuna | Meta Platforms, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | Ada | 198 |
| Family History Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | Bear Lake | — |
| VentureData | — | Mapped (unverified) | Madison | — |