Valar Atomics is pursuing a large nuclear-and-compute development in Utah that would deploy more than 450 high-temperature gas-cooled reactors across over 9,500 acres in Carbon and Emery counties. The company calls the integrated reactor, data-center, heat and fuel facilities gigasites, designed to operate independently of the strained power grid while supplying electricity, industrial heat and potentially hydrogen and synthetic fuels. Valar's Ward 250 test microreactor reached fueled criticality on June 18, 2026, at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab and generated its first electricity on July 1. The company used that power to run an Nvidia Blackwell chip during a July demonstration. Valar raised $1 billion in a Series B in August 2026, taking its valuation to $6 billion, and Utah approved a 50-year lease for up to 640 acres in September. The broader Project Beehive proposal previously described about 456 reactors producing roughly 9.6 gigawatts on more than 9,000 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, alongside nuclear-fuel and waste facilities. The federal application remains subject to a completeness review and the National Environmental Policy Act process, while local environmental groups have raised concerns about the project's scale and use of public land. Valar is targeting test-basis power sales in 2027 and full commercial operations in 2028, with the wider site intended to be built incrementally from standardized smaller units.