The Washington Sun reported that several local officials said they had not been aware of the federal government's deliberations on data-center proposals on public land; that local officials and advocates in Utah, Arizona, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming said they were not aware of many of the projects; and that many proposals are not easily found on BLM's website. The only Utah voice it quotes by name is Lexi Tuddenham, executive director of the advocacy group HEAL Utah, who said there is little public awareness of the Utah projects; no Carbon or Emery County official is quoted. A search of the Federal Register for 'Valar Atomics' on 29 September 2026 returned one document, a DOE notice of 6 July 2026 on a Defense Production Act 'Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consortium' agreement; nothing from BLM. BLM's NEPA register (eplanning.blm.gov) loads its search results by script and answered our reader with an error page, so whether a NEPA project exists for these cases could not be checked by our tools (see open questions).

• Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known (The Washington Sun (Mara Hoplamazian and Jade Lozada), 2026-09-18) news “Several local officials told The Sun they weren't aware of the federal government's deliberations”
• Federal Register document search: "Valar Atomics" (API results) (Office of the Federal Register) primary government
• Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known (The Washington Sun (Mara Hoplamazian and Jade Lozada), 2026-09-18) news “There is little public awareness of those projects in Utah”