“Instead of waiting until we’re at 100,000 people,” Westmoreland said, “we’re building an economy now.”ĭata centers are not known for creating several hundred jobs they are primarily warehouses for computer servers. It is part of a plan to create a robust economy as it grows. The city’s population is booming, according to census data, more than doubling in the past 10 years to more than 43,000.Įagle Mountain officials had decided years ago to court businesses needing data centers, Mayor Tom Westmoreland said. Jobs are needed in ever-expanding Eagle Mountain. The land is located in the south of the city on Pony Express Parkway, across from Facebook’s data center. The tech giant acquired the acreage from a private buyer for an undisclosed sum. Google is known, Sanborn said, to hire hundreds of employees to run its data centers.
Mesch | The Salt Lake Tribune) Eagle Mountain's economic development director, Aaron Sanborn, speaks at a news conference announcing Google's purchase of more than 300 acres in the city.
