Diode Ventures is planning a data center campus outside Boise, Idaho
First reported by BoiseDev, Diode Ventures is proposing a data center campus on 620 acres near Locust Grove and Barker Roads in Kuna.
The undeveloped land, at 3250 S Locust Grove Road, is currently zoned agricultural. Kuna Planning and Zoning Commission voted unanimously last week to recommend approval to rezone the land to M-1 light industrial, as well as the related comprehensive plan amendment. The proposal will now go before the city council for approval.
Diode’s website describes the Gemstone Technology Park as a 620-acre proposed data center site located just outside Boise that is in early development.
A site plan suggests up to five buildings could be developed on the campus. Further details were not shared.
References to the Gemstone Park surfaced in Kuna City documents back in July 2024. According to Kuna Economic Development Director Morgan Treasure, Diode approached the city about the project in the fall of 2023.
According to BoiseDev, the land is currently owned by former Kuna Mayor Duane Yamamoto. Yamamoto was forced to come to Idaho during WW2 and kept at the Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp. He became city Mayor in the 1970s.
Black & Veatch subsidiary Diode Ventures has developed several data center parks around Kansas City and is planning more in the area. Meta and Google are customers.
Meta is developing a large campus in the area, some 6 miles east of Diode’s project. The company announced plans for a new data center campus in Kuna in Ada County in early 2022.
Meta originally aimed to invest $800 million developing a 960,000 sq ft facility, but was one of around a dozen sites temporarily paused as part of a design re-scoping to accommodate AI infrastructure and liquid cooling.
