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Data centers in Alaska: 2 projects mapped
The largest data center proposed in Alaska is on the North Slope. Anchorage-based Stak Energy wants a 50-year lease of about a square mile of state land off the Dalton Highway, some 25 miles south of Deadhorse, for gas-fired power plants that could produce up to 3 gigawatts for AI computing. In May 2026 the Department of Natural Resources issued a preliminary decision that the lease is in the state's "best interest." Public comments closed July 17, and the department will review them before making a final decision.
More than 500 people commented, and fewer than a dozen supported the project, the Alaska Beacon reported. State documents cite a $500 million first phase, a peak of 1,500 construction workers, about 60 permanent jobs and 7 million cubic yards of gravel. Stak's chief strategy officer, John Boyle, was Gov. Mike Dunleavy's natural resources commissioner from 2023 to 2025 and puts the full cost at more than $10 billion. Stak had no firm gas supply deal when it applied, and it still needs a federal Clean Water Act permit for its gravel pad.
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The utilities in Anchorage and Fairbanks say they cannot power a large data center. "We currently do not have gas to serve a large data center, but we do have generation capacity," Chugach Electric spokesperson Julie Hasquet told the Anchorage Daily News; its main gas contract ends in 2028. In April the Air Force offered five sites of about 60 to nearly 200 acres at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and land near Fairbanks, though its own solicitation says the base sites have "insufficient power."
In March the Anchorage Assembly voted 10-2 to keep data centers out of residential zones, require noise buffers and require a written statement from the utility that the grid has "sufficient system capacity." The Mat-Su Borough Assembly went the other way, overriding Mayor Edna DeVries's veto to have staff pitch borough land near Port MacKenzie and Big Lake to data centers.
In July the state proposed giving a 30-square-mile parcel north of Houston to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority for an industrial park that could include "scalable data centers." Houston City Council member Lisa Johansen has proposed banning data centers in the city; the council postponed its vote to August 13, and no result has been published.
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Zoning limits on data centers
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| Place | Type | Started | Ends | |
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| AnchorageTown or city | Zoning limits | Mar 27, 2026 | No end date | Record off site ↗ |
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