TECH & AI
Something historic is taking shape in a quiet corner of Utah’ s Black Rock Desert. Millard County, which can be found on the westernmost edge of the Beehive State, is a flat, remote and sparsely populated area.
While these attributes might not lend themselves well to certain industries, they are particularly conducive to the construction of data centres.
Right now, a company called Creekstone Energy is building what it calls a“ gigasite” in Millard County – a next-generation power and data infrastructure campus designed to feed the burgeoning electricity appetite of AI.
The site first broke ground in December 2025 and, by the first half of 2027, Creekstone plans to have more than 300MW of gas-powered capacity online. That, however, is only the beginning.
By the time the gigasite is entirely finished, it is expected to be the world’ s largest AI-optimised data centre campus, boasting an eye-watering power capacity of 10GW.
This would be enough electricity to power 15 million homes in Great Britain, according to the Low Carbon Contracts Company.
Enter Zeo On 18 February, Creekstone announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding( MoU) with Zeo Energy, a Florida-based clean energy company, to develop around 280MW of solar and storage capacity for the site.
For Zeo, this is a pivotal moment in a transformation it has been undergoing for a while now. When it acquired energy storage firm Heliogen in August last year, Zeo set itself up to commercialise its offerings at a far larger scale.
With the data centre sector booming and demanding round-the-clock power, it was unsurprising that Zeo got the call.
The kind of energy storage systems Zeo now has at its disposal are vital technologies in sectors such as data centres because they allow for the uninterrupted flow of renewable energy, even when generation is intermittent.
88 May 2026