Data centers and energy
🗺️ Southern Idaho Energy Issues
Get current on the energy and data center fights across southern Idaho as of October 2026: SWIP-N, the cancelled Lava Ridge wind project and how it could return, data center proposals from Kuna to Cassia County, big solar, new gas plants and the Elmore County docket, with every status dated and sourced.
- 1The Southern Idaho Build-Out at a GlanceA dated map of every major energy and data center proposal in southern Idaho covered by this course, what stage each one is in as of October 2026, and which body decides it.16 min
- 2SWIP-N on the GroundWhat the SWIP-North transmission line means locally in southern Idaho as of October 2026: what was approved, what is being built, what the PUC left for later, and where residents still have a say.18 min
- 3Lava Ridge: What Was Approved and How It Was StoppedThe documented record of the Lava Ridge Wind Project from the December 2024 Record of Decision through the January 2025 presidential memorandum and Interior's August 2025 reversal, with the arguments each side made.15 min
- 4How Lava Ridge Could Come BackThe legal and practical routes by which Lava Ridge or a project like it could return: a policy change, a new application, a lawsuit, or a move to private and state land, plus the tax credit deadlines and grid facts that make each route harder or easier as of October 2026.16 min
- 5Data Centers in Idaho: Built, Proposed and StalledEvery significant data center operating or proposed in southern Idaho as of October 2026, from Meta in Kuna to proposals on BLM land, with the Idaho Power forecast and large-load case that decide who pays for the power.17 min
- 6The Cassia County Data Center ProposalWhat the public record shows about TerraVolt's planned gas-powered data center campus in southeast Idaho, which a third-party tracker places in Cassia County: the company's SEC filings, its gas contract, its finances and what it still needs as of October 2026.15 min
- 7The Big Solar QuestionThe search for a reported 15,009-acre southern Idaho solar project, what turned up instead, and the largest verified solar proposals in the region with their acreage, megawatts, tax treatment and decommissioning bonds as of October 2026.16 min
- 8Elmore County and the Rest of the Magic ValleyThe energy projects filed or planned in Elmore County and across the Magic Valley as of October 2026: Idaho Power's Peregrine and South Hills gas plants, the Mayfield substation, solar and wind permits, pumped storage and federal-land proposals, with the dockets where residents can still weigh in.17 min