Boise, Idaho Eyes BLM Data Center Proposal on Public Land South of City

BLM is reviewing a Rhea Data / Arevia Power proposal for a ~4M sq ft data center on ~3,226 acres of public land south of Boise, part of 17,600+ acres of Western data-center filings. Boise, Idaho is on the map for a rare kind of federal land proposal: a multi-building data center on Bureau of Land Management acreage a few miles south of the city, part of a wider Western push to site data center infrastructure on public lands. According to public right-of-way records reviewed by The Washington Sun , the BLM is reviewing data center-related proposals covering at least 17,600 acres of public land across six states u2014 Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming .

Reporting published September 18, 2026 says the Trump administration is considering proposals for at least 12 data centers and data center-related infrastructure projects on federal public lands u2014 far more than previously known. Many filings are early and not easily found on BLMu2019s website; several local officials told the Sun they were not aware of the federal deliberations. In Idaho, Rhea Data , a subsidiary of Nevada-based Arevia Power , proposed a 4,000,000-square-foot multi-building data center on 3,226 acres of public lands a few miles south of Boise, according to a BLM spokesperson.