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Novva West Jordan Campus

Novva West Jordan Campus

Construction
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Utah (Rocky Mountain Power / PacifiCorp, WECC — non-RTO)

6477 West Wells Park Road, West Jordan (Salt Lake County) — 100 acres, 4-phase / 1.5M sq ft HQ campus; Phase 1 operating since 2023; Phases 2 (75MW, Dec 2023 start) + 3 (72MW, Jan 2024 start) building to 2026; on-site 200MW substation; $2B JPMorgan/Starwood construction loan. Also self-generating: Utah DAQ AO DAQE-AN160660003-24 permits 72 gas engines (~235.6MW) as PRIMARY power for two new buildings, making the site a Title V major CO/HAP source with 47 tpy NOx offsets.

Capacity
144 MW basis: unspecified
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

51.8 /100
51.8/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

55 /100
55/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

50 /100
50/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Novva West Jordan Campus No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Capital staleness decay +10 Novva West Jordan Campus Newest capital evidence is 2025-03-05 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Novva West Jordan Campus No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure staleness decay -20 Novva West Jordan Campus Newest infrastructure evidence is 2025-03-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Novva West Jordan Campus No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Novva West Jordan Campus Newest regulatory evidence is 2025-03-05 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Novva West Jordan Campus No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Novva West Jordan Campus Newest schedule evidence is 2025-03-05 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

No milestones recorded for this project yet.

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
JPMorgan Chase
Lender
Novva Data Centers
Developer
Starwood Property Trust
Lender
Layton Construction
General Contractor

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Business Wire (CIM Group / Novva release) · Mar 5, 2025 · backs: status

    https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250305288564/en/CIM-Group-and-Novva-Data-Centers-Announce-$2-Billion-in-New-Financing-to-Accelerate-Growth-in-Delivering-Sustainable-Efficient-Data-Centers-Across-the-Western-U.S.

  2. Data Center Dynamics · Jun 1, 2024 · backs: capacity mw

    https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/novva-secures-2bn-loan-to-expand-west-jordan-campus-in-utah/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Business Wire (CIM Group / Novva release) · relevance 0.70

  2. · daqpermitting.utah.gov · relevance 0.90

  3. · Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90

  4. Novva Data Centers · relevance 0.30

  5. EDC Utah · relevance 0.90