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Read Developer Withdraws Data Center Proposal in St. Joseph, Missouri
An application to rezone and annex land for a proposed data center in St. Joseph, Missouri, has been withdrawn. Capstone Technology Campus, owned by local businessman Steve Craig, had sought approv...

Developer Withdraws Data Center Proposal in St. Joseph, Missouri

June 30, 2026 Missouri

An application to rezone and annex land for a proposed data center in St. Joseph, Missouri, has been withdrawn. Capstone Technology Campus, owned by local businessman Steve Craig, had sought approval for a 130-acre development across sites at 6321 and 5701 Pickett Road. The City of St. Joseph...

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Read 340,000-Square-Foot Data Center and Office Property Listed for Sale in Downtown St. Louis
340,000-Square-Foot Data Center and Office Property Listed for Sale in Downtown St. Louis

340,000-Square-Foot Data Center and Office Property Listed for Sale in Downtown St. Louis

June 02, 2026 Missouri

A 340,000-square-foot (31,587 sqm) property combining data center and office space has been listed for sale in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Situated at 1831 Chestnut Condominium, the six-story building occupies a 4.24-acre site and includes approximately 53,000 square feet (4,923 sqm) dedicated...

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Read Nobles County Rejects $4bn Data Center Proposal
Nobles County Rejects $4bn Data Center Proposal

Nobles County Rejects $4bn Data Center Proposal

April 24, 2026 Minnesota

A $4 billion data center project has been rejected by local officials in Nobles County, Minnesota. Renewable energy developer Geronimo Power had been considering a 959-acre site between 200th Street and 190th Street for the development of eight data center buildings totaling 2.5 million sq ft...

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Read RealVantage Invests in $7million in Minnesota Data Center
RealVantage Invests in $7million in Minnesota Data Center

RealVantage Invests in $7million in Minnesota Data Center

March 25, 2026 Minnesota

Singapore-based real estate firm RealVantage is entering digital infrastructure, investing $7 million in a 21MW data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The data center was acquired earlier this year by US firm Cloud Capital and Bahrain’s Arcapita, who plan to expand the site to 31MW. “The...

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Read Geronimo Power Proposes Data Center in Nobles County, Minnesota
Geronimo Power Proposes Data Center in Nobles County, Minnesota

Geronimo Power Proposes Data Center in Nobles County, Minnesota

December 05, 2025 Minnesota

US renewable energy developer Geronimo Power is looking to develop a data center in Nobles County, Minnesota. Geronimo has indicated its interest in using its renewable energy portfolio to power a data center. A significant factor in this decision, the company has said, is the energy curtailment...

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Read Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota
Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

September 10, 2025 Minnesota

Bitcoin mining and infrastructure services provider Compass Mining has energized a new 7.5MW site in Minnesota named Minnesota 2. It will be Compass's second facility in Minnesota, and the 23rd facility run by the company across the US and Canada.Compass Mining will be responsible for operating...

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Read Meta Partners with Amrize
Meta Partners with Amrize

Meta Partners with Amrize

July 25, 2025 Minnesota

Social media giant Meta and concrete maker Amrize last week announced a partnership to develop a “first-of-its-kind, AI-optimized concrete mix” tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minnesota.“We work to design our data centers as efficiently and sustainably as...

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Read Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota
Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

June 05, 2025 Minnesota

US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant. “This is a...

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Read Amazon purchases land n Minnesota, for data center
Amazon purchases land n Minnesota, for data center

Amazon purchases land n Minnesota, for data center

November 11, 2024 Minnesota

Amazon has purchased 348 acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, for a data center project. According to a real estate filing published with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the parcel will be used for a data center and was previously part of Xcel Energy Inc.'s Sherco Site.Xcel spokesperson Kevin...

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Read TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri
TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

August 16, 2024 Missouri

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

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Read Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council
Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

December 28, 2023 Minnesota

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be...

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Read Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale
Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

October 03, 2023 Nebraska

Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure. The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in...

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Read St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction
St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

September 27, 2023 Minnesota

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance...

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Read Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire
Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

September 04, 2023 Nebraska

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to the...

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Read Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska
Work  begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

June 08, 2023 Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, looks to have seen the start of construction on a data center campus that was first proposed in 2019. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the project appears to be progressing, with some excavation occurring in recent months. In July 2019, Agate LLC filed for a 600...

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Read The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus
The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus

The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus

June 07, 2023 Minnesota

The University of Minnesota has announced that it's moving forward with a new $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus. The university is reportedly accepting design proposals for a two-story, 33,000-square-foot "Advanced Operations Center." The facility will be located west of the...

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Read Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease
Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

June 01, 2023 Missouri

Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing by...

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Read Xcel property in Becker, Minnesota to house big data center project?
Xcel property in Becker, Minnesota to house big data center project?

Xcel property in Becker, Minnesota to house big data center project?

September 15, 2022 Minnesota

A $1 billion data center project could be on the way to Becker, Minnesota, as Xcel Energy Inc. announces plans to sell 348 acres of land at its Sherco location to an unknown data center company. This company is currently going by the name Elk River Technologies and was reportedly incorporated in...

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Read Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center
Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

Under the microscope: Ameren's new data center

October 26, 2021 Missouri

Ameren's new data center, fuelled by one of its coal-fired power plants in Missouri, has come under the microscope, garnering concerns from those in the local community and beyond. While the company says that the $1 million facility will help to stabilize demand for electricity, critics aren't so...

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