The minutes of the Trust Lands board's 20 August 2026 meeting (in the 17 September packet, on that day's agenda for approval) record that, answering an online question about jobs after construction, Valar's Max Ukropina and Jess Housekeeper said full development plans were still being finalized and that the current facility 'employs roughly 40 full-time local residents' and uses 50 to several hundred local contractors within a 20-30 mile radius, supported by six recruiters. Beside the other figures on record: on 1 July 2026 ETV reported Valar officials saying the company had hired about 50 local employees, not counting contractors; per loc-004, in April 2026 Valar told Ferron it employed 120 people in Emery County, many not living in Utah; in August it told Orangeville it had recently hired 40 people from the area; it projects 275 jobs for its state tax credit (fund-017); its job board lists 21 open Orangeville positions and 71 in California (plan-011). The figures mostly count different groups; the August figure is limited to full-time local residents, while the July figure's definition was not given; no payroll or headcount filing was found to check them.

• Board of Trustees Meeting Materials, September 17, 2026 (minutes of August 20, 2026 for approval, pages 10-11) (Utah Trust Lands Administration, via Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-09-17) primary government “their current facility employs roughly 40 full-time local residents”
• Emery County takes center stage as Valar and Nvidia power historic breakthrough (ETV News (Kevin Butler), 2026-07-01) news “hired approximately 50 local employees, not including contractors”