STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease
A preliminary decision would give STAK Energy a 50-year lease on 715.4 acres of state land about 26 miles south of Deadhorse for a gas-fired AI and cloud campus its developer pegs at more than $10 billion, with 1 to 3 gigawatts of on-site generation. More than 500 public comments arrived before the first deadline; fewer than a dozen supported the project.
How the public reaches this
The written comment window closed 4:30 p.m. July 17th, 2026. DNR now weighs more than 500 comments before a final best-interest decision on the 50-year lease. No public comment path remains open.
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2026-07-08 Tracked. 500 plus comments on record, fewer than a dozen in favor; deadline already extended once.
2026-07-09 Re-verified via Northern Journal and ADN. More than 500 comments on record, fewer than a dozen in favor. DNR spokesperson Sean Clifton attributes the extension to comment volume, public interest and requests for extension. Stak's John Boyle calls most comments form letters lacking substance. Comment window stays open to July 17.
2026-07-10 Re-confirmed via Northern Journal. The comment window still closes July 17, still more than 500 comments with fewer than a dozen in support. No change to the schedule. One week out.
2026-07-11 Re-confirmed via Northern Journal (July 3 reporting) during this run's fact-check. Comment window still closes 4:30 p.m. July 17, still more than 500 comments with fewer than a dozen in support. Six days out.
2026-07-12 By early July more than 500 public comments had reached DNR on the North Slope lease, with fewer than a dozen in favor, and the comment deadline held at July 17. Opposition ranged across Kodiak, Kotzebue, Seward, Valdez and Nuiqsut and mixed subsistence, tundra gravel and climate objections with a widely repeated but factually shaky fear of higher power bills, since the North Slope is not tied to the Railbelt grid.
2026-07-14 Three days out. The written comment window on ADL 422741 still closes at 4:30 p.m. July 17 per DNR reporting, still more than 500 comments on record with fewer than a dozen in support. No schedule change surfaced this run. This is the one open-comment room among the tracked decisions.
2026-07-15 Two days out. Re-confirmed against Anchorage Daily News reporting from July 7 that more than 500 public comments oppose the Stak Energy North Slope data center lease and fewer than a dozen endorse it, with the written comment window still closing 4:30 p.m. July 17. No schedule change surfaced. This remains the one open comment room among the tracked decisions.
2026-07-17 Comment day. The written comment window on ADL 422741 closes at 4:30 p.m. today, the one open comment room among the tracked decisions. After it closes the lease moves to a pending final decision by DNR. More than 500 comments on record with fewer than a dozen in support, unchanged this run.
2026-07-18 The written comment window closed at 4:30 p.m. July 17, so the lease moves to a pending final decision by DNR Division of Oil and Gas. More than 500 comments on record with fewer than a dozen in support. Reporting notes the campus is off-grid and self-generating on North Slope gas hundreds of miles from urban Alaska, so its fuel use would not directly raise Railbelt household electricity prices. This run reframed the docket around that on-grid versus off-grid distinction.
2026-07-19 Re-verified the DNR primary notice this run. ADL 422741 remains a preliminary decision with no Final Finding and Decision issued yet. The written comment window closed 4:30 p.m. July 17, so the 50-year lease now sits with DNR Division of Oil and Gas for a final best-interest decision. More than 500 comments on record with fewer than a dozen in support, unchanged.
2026-07-20 Re-verified via Northern Journal. The extended written comment window closed July 17 with more than 500 comments on record and fewer than a dozen in support, and DNR will assess the comments before a final decision on the 50-year lease. No Final Finding and Decision is posted yet.
2026-07-21 Carried forward against Alaska Beacon and DataCenterDynamics reporting. The written comment window on ADL 422741 closed 4:30 p.m. July 17 with more than 500 comments on record and fewer than a dozen in favor, and the roughly one square mile campus (up to 3 GW, an estimated 350 to 500 million cubic feet of gas per day) now sits with the DNR Division of Oil and Gas for a Final Finding and Decision. No decision is posted yet this run.
2026-07-22 Re-verified the DNR primary notice ADL 422741. It remains a preliminary decision with no Final Finding and Decision posted. The written comment window closed 4:30 p.m. July 17, so the 50 year lease now sits with DNR Division of Oil and Gas for a final best interest decision. More than 500 comments on record with fewer than a dozen in support, unchanged this run.
2026-07-24 Selected as this run's carousel. Re-verified the DNR primary notice ADL 422741 with Northern Journal and ADN during this run's fact-check. It remains a preliminary decision with no Final Finding and Decision posted. The written comment window closed 4:30 p.m. July 17, so the 50-year lease now sits with DNR Division of Oil and Gas for a final best-interest decision. More than 500 comments on record with fewer than a dozen in support, unchanged this run. The deck frames the public revolt and the narrow path that remains once the comment room has closed.
2026-07-25 Carried forward unchanged. The written comment window closed at 4.30 p.m. on July 17, 2026 and the 50 year lease still sits with DNR's Division of Oil and Gas awaiting a final finding and decision. An attempt to re-fetch the state's own public notice page this run returned HTTP 503, so nothing here is updated on rumor. No final decision has surfaced.
2026-07-26 Re-verification attempted and failed. The DNR public notice path returned HTTP 404 to this run's fact checker and no alternate primary source was reachable, so the status stays pending decision on the strength of the prior run's reporting. No decision is asserted in either direction.
2026-07-29 Re-checked the state's own online public notice for ADL 422741. Twelve days after the written comment window closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17, the Division of Oil and Gas has published no final best interest decision, and the notice still stands as a preliminary decision to offer the 50 year lease on 715.4 acres. Status unchanged at pending decision, and public access stays closed because no comment path remains open. Commenters who filed during the window may appeal the division's final decision if they are aggrieved by it.
2026-07-31 Two weeks after the written comment window closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17, the Division of Oil and Gas has still published no final best interest decision on the 50 year lease. Status unchanged at pending decision. Public access stays closed because no comment path remains open, and the only route left belongs to people who filed during the window and may appeal a decision that aggrieves them.
2026-08-01 The comment window closed July 17. The Division of Oil and Gas is assessing the comments before it makes a final decision on the lease, and no decision date has been published.
2026-08-02 Sixteen days after the comment period closed, the Division of Oil and Gas has not published a final finding and decision, and no date for one has been announced.
2026-08-07 Re-verified today against the primary notice, Alaska DNR Online Public Notices id 224224. The preliminary decision to offer STAK Energy Corporation a 50-year lease on 715.4 acres near Deadhorse stands. Comments closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17th and no final decision has been issued.
2026-08-12 Re-verified against the state notice. No final best interest decision has been issued on the 715.4 acre, 50-year lease offer, twenty-six days after comment closed.
2026-08-16 Re-verified against the state notice. No final finding and decision has been issued on the 715.4 acre, 50-year lease offer, thirty days after comment closed.
2026-08-20 Re-verified against the state notice. Thirty four days after comment closed on July 17th, the Division of Oil and Gas has issued no final finding and decision on the 715.4 acre, 50 year lease offer. The notice still tells commenters they will have a right to appeal that decision once it exists.
2026-08-26 Checked and unchanged against the state notice. The Division of Oil and Gas has issued a preliminary decision to offer STAK Energy Corporation a 50 year lease on 715.4 acres, comment closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17th, and no final finding and decision has been published. The notice says the final finding goes to everyone who commented, with the appeal process attached, so the people who wrote in will learn of it before the public notice system does.
2026-08-30 Checked and unchanged against the state notice. The Division of Oil and Gas still shows a preliminary decision to offer STAK Energy Corporation a 50 year lease on 715.4 acres, comment closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17th, and no final finding and decision has been published. The notice still states that a copy of the final finding and decision will be sent to any person who commented on the preliminary decision.
2026-09-03 Checked and unchanged against the state notice. The Division of Oil and Gas still shows only a preliminary decision to offer STAK Energy Corporation a 50 year lease on 715.4 acres, with comment closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17th, 2026. No final finding and decision has been issued. Anyone who commented during the window keeps the right to appeal that final decision once it exists.
2026-09-07 Checked and unchanged against the preliminary decision notice, Alaska DNR Online Public Notices id 224224. No final finding and decision has been issued and none is scheduled, so the 50-year lease on 715.4 acres still sits with the Division of Oil and Gas with no published decision date. The comment window closed July 17th, 2026 and nothing has reopened it.
2026-09-11 Checked and unchanged against the preliminary decision notice, Alaska DNR Online Public Notices id 224224. The notice still describes a 50 year lease offer to STAK Energy Corporation on 715.4 acres about 26 miles south of Deadhorse, for a commercial natural gas powered energy facility including modular high performance computing units. Comment closed at 4:30 p.m. on July 17th, 2026. No final finding and decision has been issued and none is scheduled. The notice says a copy will be sent to every person who commented, with an explanation of the appeal process, which is the only forward path the record names.
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What is STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
A preliminary decision would give STAK Energy a 50-year lease on 715.4 acres of state land about 26 miles south of Deadhorse for a gas-fired AI and cloud campus its developer pegs at more...
Who decides STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
Alaska DNR, Division of Oil and Gas
Can I comment on STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
The written comment window closed 4:30 p.m. July 17th, 2026. DNR now weighs more than 500 comments before a final best-interest decision on the 50-year lease. No public comment path remains open.
Where is STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
Dalton Highway, about 26 mi south of Deadhorse
Has STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease been decided?
It is pending a decision. Sixteen days after the comment period closed, the Division of Oil and Gas has not published a final finding and decision, and no date for one has been announced.
What happens next with STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
No further date is published. It is pending a decision and the record is checked against its source every day.
What changed on STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
Sixteen days after the comment period closed, the Division of Oil and Gas has not published a final finding and decision, and no date for one has been announced.
What kind of decision is STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
A state land lease, decided by Alaska DNR, Division of Oil and Gas.
When did STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease start?
Tracked since July 8th, 66 days ago. The earliest date on its record is May 12th.
Where can I read the sources for STAK Energy's North Slope AI campus lease?
Alaska DNR Online Public Notices, Northern Journal. Every one is listed with its date on the decision page.
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