Data center would provide nearly $70 million to Uinta County under agreement
EVANSTON — A $68.3 million community endowment proposal from Prometheus Hyperscale for Evanston and Uinta County was announced Tuesday during the Uinta County Commission’s meeting. Prometheus Hyperscale founder Trenton Thornock and Eric Schlidt, director of the data center’s affiliate Build Wyoming, joined most of the members of the community benefits agreement committee in making the announcement. “We wanted to have a pretty broad section of folks in the community,” Schlidt said of selecting the committee from volunteers who had attended an informational meeting in March. The committee consists of Sean Columbia, Jon Conrad, Mark Harris, Kiley Ingersoll, Sheila McGuire, Rocco O’Neill, Trevor Rasmussen, Wendy Schuler, Holly West and Mardi Woodward. “They wanted to provide immediate improvements in Uinta County [and] they wanted to have a long-term improvement in Uinta County,” Schlidt said. The agreement, which will exist between the Wyoming nonprofit Uinta County Economic Development Corporation and Prometheus Hyperscale, will become effective once the data center developer secures a lease agreement with its still-unnamed tenant. “[It’s] contingent on getting the definitive documents signed by the intertenant, getting their buy-in,” Thornock said. The endowment is structured in two tiers. The first tier specifies that the developer will contribute $60 million “to
