ETV News reported on 16 July 2026 that at the Orangeville City Council's 9 July meeting Valar's Harry Hansen said the 1,000 water shares Valar is seeking to buy would support possible future expansion and are not meant for a data center, as some rumours suggested. ETV's 28 July 2026 report on the Emery County Commission's 21 July meeting said Valar had recently announced plans to create or obtain as many as 1,000 water shares over the coming years; that, according to Valar, the company already has the water for the proposed NVIDIA data center; and that the extra shares would support possible future developments on the larger property Valar recently purchased from Emery County (mine-018). At that commission meeting Valar representatives offered to speak with residents one-on-one afterwards; a resident asked for a 180-day pause on new data-center applications while zoning standards are written; and Commissioner Dennis Worwood said no formal building application for a data center had been received and that planning and zoning should set standards first.

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