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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints plans to build its West Jordan Temple in the global faith’s modern style, according to an exterior rendering released Monday.

The single-spired, multistory, 85,000-square-foot building will sit on about 16 acres in the Oquirrh foothills on the far west side of the Salt Lake Valley. A new meetinghouse will also be built on the site at approximately 7148 South and west of State Road 111.

Church President Russell M. Nelson announced plans for the edifice at the April 2024 General Conference along with another suburban temple in Lehi. A rendering of the Utah County building, with the same square footage, showed it would have wings on either side of its main entrance. The West Jordan Temple appears to be longer and narrower.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An exterior rendering of Utah's Lehi Temple.

The edifice will be the first Latter-day Saint temple for the growing suburb and the fourth west of Interstate 15 in the Salt Lake Valley, joining two buildings in South Jordan and one in Taylorsville.

Nelson announced another new temple for the worldwide faith’s home state this month. The Spanish Fork Temple will be the church’s 32nd planned or existing such edifice in Utah. There are 382 temples operating or in the works around the globe.

Devout Latter-day Saints — whom church leaders deem worthy — go to temples to practice the faith’s holiest rituals such as eternal marriage.

A Utah data center has secured a $2 billion investment — the second largest of its kind — to build the remainder of its West Jordan campus.

When it’s done, Novva’s 100-acre campus will be “one of the largest superclusters” of servers in the United States, said CEO Wes Swenson, powering 175 megawatts to data servers around the world.

Novva built the first stage of its Utah campus in 2020 and the $2 billion investment from JPMorgan Chase and Starwood Property Group will help the company finish the two remaining buildings, Swensen said.

It also is the second $2 billion loan awarded to a data center this year, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. Most data construction loans before January were less than $1 billion. Swenson said he is glad this investment is happening in Utah.

“I have a super high conviction to the Utah market, our employees and community,” said Swenson, who lives in Utah County.

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Utah is well positioned to house massive data centers like Novva, the chief executive said. Up at altitude — Novva sits at roughly 4,000 feet above sea level — the air is cooler. Data centers need to keep servers cool. Most use evaporative cooling to keep temperatures low — Novva can literally pull from the air to cool its cooling liquid most of the year, Swenson said.

The Beehive State also doesn’t have to worry about intense natural disasters, Swenson said — though he does have a precise seismograph to monitor for any earthquake activity.

There are 39 data centers in Utah, according to the Data Center Map. Twenty-six of them are in the Salt Lake metro area.

Utah’s business-friendly ecosystem also helps incentivize data centers in the state, said Jim Buie, CEO of ValorC3 Data Centers (formerly Tonaquint). Valor has been around since 2008 and has capitalized on Utah’s “good growth trajectory” — tax incentives, low-cost power and fiber optic connectivity.

“Those are all wonderful ingredients for not just tech, but certainly the data center business,” Buie said.

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The need for data centers has exploded in recent years as AI has become an everyday tool for internet users. The amount of new data center construction in the top eight markets more than doubled in 2024 compared to the year prior, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Buie said he and other industry analysts expect generation to quadruple over the next four years — “both the quantity [of centers] and the amount of power that data centers use.” If Utah can keep up with the electricity demand — a big focus in the legislative session and Gov. Spencer Cox’s budget this year — it’s poised to lead the nation in “driving the digital economy,” Buie said.

But one of Utah’s scarcest resources is also the most critical to many data centers: water.

Most centers cool their servers through evaporative cooling, which can use millions of gallons of water each month.

Novva uses coolant, not water, to cool its servers, Swenson said — meaning that roughly 100,000 gallons of the campus’s million-gallon annual water consumption are used in Novva’s closed-loop cooling system. The remaining 90%, he said, is for plumbing, like toilets, sinks, and drinking fountains.

“It’s equal to about three homes annually,” Swenson said. “We’re considered a zero-water footprint.”

Not all centers are so water-conscious, Buie said, although they will likely have to be in order to succeed. Valor also uses a closed-loop cooling system, Buie said, which saves water from evaporation.

Novva’s brand-new campus buildings should both be done by mid-2026, Swenson said. The servers that will fill them are already leased.

“They have to be built somewhere,” Swenson said of large data centers. “This is as good a place as any as long as we’re good stewards.”

Shannon Sollitt is a Report for America corps member covering business accountability and sustainability for The Salt Lake Tribune. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps keep her writing stories like this one; please consider making a tax-deductible gift of any amount today by clicking here.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a rendering of the exterior of the West Jordan Utah Temple on Monday. A groundbreaking date has not yet been released.

The West Jordan Utah Temple will be situated on a 16.1-acre lot at approximately 7148 South and west of State Route 111 highway. It’s projected to be 85,000 square feet and will be accompanied by a new meetinghouse.

This temple, which was announced by President Russell M. Nelson at the April 2024 general conference, is among 32 temples in Utah in the various stages of planning, construction and operation. It is also among six temples in Salt Lake County.

A temple in Spanish Fork was announced at the most recent general conference.

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Worldwide, there are 382 temples in the various stages.

To Latter-day Saints, temples are the most sacred places on Earth. In temples, they make promises with God and participate in ordinances that they believe are necessary for salvation. Temples differ from meetinghouses, where Sunday services and other activities are held throughout the week.

“Time in the temple increases our confidence before the Lord,” said President Nelson during the most recent general conference. “Increased time in the temple will help us prepare for the second coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We do not know the day or the hour of His coming. But I do know that the Lord is prompting me to urge us to get ready for that ‘great and dreadful day.‘”

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SALT LAKE CITY — A rendering of the future Latter-day Saint West Jordan temple released Monday shows a white building with tall, rounded windows, topped with a pyramid.

Related: Church announces 15 new temples during April 2025 General Conference

Plans for the building include multiple stories and a total of 85,000 square feet, along with a new meetinghouse near the temple.

The temple was announced one year ago in the April 2024 general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with the Lehi Utah Temple, which already has a public rendering.

The West Jordan Utah Temple will be built on a 16.10-acre location west of state Route 111 at approximately 7148 South.

There are currently 21 open temples in Utah. Five are under construction, including Ephraim, Heber Valley, Lindon, Smithfield and Syracuse. Two temples are under renovation in Salt Lake City and Provo, and four have been announced — including Lehi, Price, Spanish Fork and West Jordan. This is a total of 32 temples.

“Latter-day Saints worship in temples for several reasons: to feel God’s love and peace, to learn more about God’s plan for his children and the gospel of Jesus Christ, to make promises with God and with one’s husband or wife and to unite families in this life and the next through sacred ordinances,” a church statement released along with the rendering said.

The Syracuse Utah Temple will have an open house in May before its dedication on June 8, and the iconic Salt Lake Temple will have a six-month open house from April to October of 2027.

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The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has released an exterior rendering of the West Jordan Utah Temple, coming a little more than a year after a house of the Lord for West Jordan, Utah, was announced by President Russell M. Nelson.

The rendering shows the projected multistory edifice of approximately 85,000 square feet, the first house of the Lord for the city and one of 32 total temples dedicated, under construction or in planning in the state.

The temple will be built on a 16.1-acre parcel in the city’s westernmost region, west of Utah State Highway 111 (also known as Bacchus Highway or 8400 West) at approximately 7147 South U-111. The site will include a new meetinghouse.

The rendering was first published Monday, April 14, on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. More information for the temple — such as a future groundbreaking date — will be released later.

Once built, the house of the Lord in West Jordan will be the westernmost of Salt Lake County’s six temples, located some 10 miles northwest of the Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple. The county’s four others are the Salt Lake, Taylorsville, Jordan River and Draper temples.

West Jordan was among the 15 new locations for future houses of the Lord that were announced by President Nelson during the April 2024 general conference. The temple’s location and site map were released two weeks later by the First Presidency.

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Utah is home to 2.2 million Latter-day Saints in nearly 5,400 congregations.

Of the total 32 houses of the Lord in the state, dedicated temples are the Bountiful, Brigham City, Cedar City, Deseret Peak, Draper, Jordan River, Layton, Logan, Manti, Monticello, Mount Timpanogos, Ogden, Oquirrh Mountain, Orem, Payson, Provo City Center, Red Cliffs, Saratoga Springs, St. George, Taylorsville and Vernal temples, with a new temple in Syracuse to be dedicated on June 8.

Two of the dedicated houses of the Lord are closed — the Salt Lake Temple for ongoing renovations and the Provo Utah Rock Canyon Temple for reconstruction.

Four houses of the Lord in Utah — Ephraim, Heber Valley, Lindon and Smithfield — are in various stages of construction, with the West Jordan temple joining those for Lehi, Price and Spanish Fork as being in planning and design. The latter was among the 15 new temple locations announced eight days ago by President Nelson in April 2025 general conference.

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