Minnesota Data Center Intelligence

Mapped Minnesota data center sites, with their power, water and risk

One app for every Minnesota county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 16 data center buildings are mapped in 7 of its 87 counties, and businesses pay 12.35¢ per kWh for power, 8% below the US average.

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Where are Minnesota's data centers?

16 mapped buildings sit in 7 of Minnesota's 87 counties. Hennepin County has the most: 6.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Tornadoes are the most common risk: 3 of the 7 counties with mapped data centers rate high for them.

Bars: counties with mapped data centers that rate Relatively high or Very high . Tap one to show it on the map.

All 87 counties as a table

County facts

What will a Minnesota site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

Business power in Minnesota costs 12.35¢ per kWh, 8% below the US, and demand fell 0.4% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

12.35¢ per kWh in 2025, 8% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses25th most expensive of 51
Minnesota
12.35¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Minnesota fell 0.4% since 2019, while the US grew 10.5%.

What makes Minnesota's power?

58.8 TWh generated in 2025: wind 26%, coal 24%, nuclear 23%.

Wind26%
Coal24%
Nuclear23%
Natural gas19%
Solar5.0%
Wood1.4%
Hydro1.3%

Under 1% each: other (eia's catch-all), other biomass, petroleum.

How much new power is proposed?

2,001 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, about a tenth of today's 18,446 MW: other 41%, wind 21%, natural gas 20%, solar 16%.

Other (EIA's catch-all)826 MW
Wind429 MW
Natural gas394 MW
Solar328 MW
Petroleum20 MW
Hydro4 MW

Which grid would a Minnesota site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

MISO serves 98.7% of Minnesota's power sales; tornadoes cost it most.

Which grid serves Minnesota?

MISO serves 98.7% of Minnesota's retail power sales.

MISO98.7%
SPP1.3%

Share of 2025 retail sales, by each utility's balancing authority .

How much water do Minnesota's power plants use?

Minnesota's power plants took in 453 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 96%; 15.3 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 96.6%Used up 3.4%

Which hazards cost Minnesota most?

Tornadoes are Minnesota's biggest risk (relatively high) ; the rest rate moderate or lower.

TornadoRelatively high
Inland floodingRelatively moderate
Heat waveRelatively moderate
DroughtRelatively moderate
WildfireRelatively low
Coastal floodingVery low
HurricaneVery low
EarthquakeVery low

Which AI campuses are in Minnesota?

Minnesota has 1 AI campus on the list; none of them is listed as being built.

AI campuses in Minnesota: Meta Rosemount.

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

Follow counties with data centers, their hearings and FEMA risk.

Hennepin County6 mapped · risk relatively high
Carver County4 mapped · risk relatively low
Dakota County2 mapped · risk relatively moderate

7counties with data centers to follow, each with its planning and zoning agendas

Land and industrial brokers

Rank counties by mapped data center buildings, with the power price behind them.

Hennepin County6
Carver County4
Dakota County2
Anoka County1
Olmsted County1

6mapped buildings in Hennepin County, the most in Minnesota

Site selection teams

Shortlist counties by mapped sites, power and risk on one map.

7of 87 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

Follow prices, demand and the grid behind each site. Bars: business power sales since 2019.

Minnesota−0.4%
US+10.5%

−0.4%business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%

Insurers and lenders

Bars: how many of the counties with data centers rate high for each hazard.

Tornado3 of 7
Heat wave2 of 7
Inland flooding2 of 7
Drought0 of 7

3of 7 counties with mapped data centers rate high for at least one

Investors and analysts

See which new power plants are proposed, by source and size. Bars: MW proposed.

Other826
Wind429
Natural gas394
Solar328

2,001MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030

What's inside Minnesota Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 87 Minnesota counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Minnesota's real data.

The Intelligence app

Every county's sites, power, water and risk on one screen, with your watchlist.

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/minnesota

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

16mapped buildings

1AI campus

12.35¢business power, per kWh

+3.4%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Hennepin County	6	high	high	low
Carver County	4	low	low	low
Dakota County	2	moderate	moderate	low
Anoka County	1	moderate	moderate	Very low
Olmsted County	1	moderate	low	low

Hearings and filings

Follow counties and cases; get the agenda and the record when a hearing is posted.

Hearings · Minnesota

Minnesota · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Hennepin County6 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Carver County4 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Dakota County2 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Anoka County1 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts

Alerts

New projects, stage changes, hearings and data updates for what you follow, by email or in the app.

Alerts · Minnesota

Power demandBusiness power sales +3.4% on the year before: 23.5 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskHennepin County (6 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for inland floodingFEMA National Risk Index
New supply2,001 MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030EIA-860

Data API

County, power, risk and project data as JSON for your own tools.

api.camsahead.com

GET /v1/counties/27053

{
  "fips": "27053",
  "name": "Hennepin County",
  "state": "MN",
  "pop2025": 1284784,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 0.3,
  "density_per_sqmi": 2319,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively High",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 98

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 99.1
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively Low",
      "score": 40.7
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "MISO"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 6
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 12.35,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

Minnesota Data Center Intelligence is $390 a month for 3 seats.

Minnesota Data Center Intelligence$390 a month

The Intelligence app: every county's sites, power, water and risk
Alerts on new projects, filings and hearings
Reports as web page, PDF and CSV
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Data APIFrom $999 a month

County, power, risk and project data as JSON
Keys for your own tools and models

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Public bodies$4,680 a year

Counties, cities, utilities and co-ops
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What stays open? The map, the county pages and every data center page stay open to everyone.

Sources and updates

How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.

OpenStreetMap contributors: data center buildings, as of November 6, 2026; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, free copy on request.
Epoch AI: "AI data centers", CC BY 4.0, retrieved November 7, 2026; changes noted.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-861 (released Oct 2026) and Form EIA-861 2025 detailed data (released Oct 2026): business power prices and sales by state, grid operators and utilities by county; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Forms EIA-923/906/920 (released Sep 2026): power generated by source, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plants proposed for 2026 to 2030; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plant capacity by state, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): thermoelectric cooling water data 2024, Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923 (retrieved Oct 2026): power plant cooling water by state.
FEMA: National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), NRI_Table_Counties and NRI_Table_States: natural hazard ratings by county and expected annual loss by state; retrieved October 31, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
U.S. Census Bureau: US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates (co-est2025-alldata.csv): people by county.

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Minnesota Data Center Intelligence

Where are Minnesota's data centers?

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

What will a Minnesota site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

What do businesses pay for power?

How fast is business power demand growing?

What makes Minnesota's power?

How much new power is proposed?

Which grid would a Minnesota site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

Which grid serves Minnesota?

How much water do Minnesota's power plants use?

Which hazards cost Minnesota most?

Which AI campuses are in Minnesota?

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Land-use and energy lawyers

Land and industrial brokers

Site selection teams

Utilities and power buyers

Insurers and lenders

Investors and analysts

What's inside Minnesota Data Center Intelligence?

The Intelligence app

Hearings and filings

Alerts

Data API

What does it cost?

Sources and updates

Mapped data center buildings

Drought, the water view

Expected annual loss (FEMA rating)

AI campuses

Cents per kWh

ISO/RTO

Commercial sales

TWh (terawatt-hours)

Proposed capacity

Other (EIA's catch-all)

Balancing authority

Water taken in and used up

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