North Dakota Data Center Intelligence

Mapped North Dakota data center sites, with their power, water and risk

One app for every North Dakota county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 13 data center buildings are mapped in 3 of its 53 counties, and businesses pay 7.36¢ per kWh for power, 45% below the US average.

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Where are North Dakota's data centers?

13 mapped buildings sit in 3 of North Dakota's 53 counties. Dickey County has the most: 10.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

None of the 3 counties with mapped data centers rates high for flooding, heat, storms, wildfire or drought.

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

All 53 counties as a table

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

Business power in North Dakota costs 7.36¢ per kWh, 45% below the US, and demand grew 63.3% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

7.36¢ per kWh in 2025, 45% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses1st cheapest of 51
North Dakota
7.36¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in North Dakota grew 63.3% since 2019, 6 times the US rate (+10.5%).

What makes North Dakota's power?

42.9 TWh generated in 2025: coal 53%, wind 36%, natural gas 7%.

Coal53%
Wind36%
Natural gas6.5%
Hydro4.7%

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

How much new power is proposed?

2,506 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, about a quarter of today's 10,427 MW: natural gas 58%, wind 20%, solar 12%, other 10%.

Natural gas1,458 MW
Wind512 MW
Solar295 MW
Other (EIA's catch-all)240 MW

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

SPP serves 54.2% of North Dakota's power sales; tornadoes cost it most.

Which grid serves North Dakota?

SPP serves 54.2% of North Dakota's retail power sales.

SPP54.2%
MISO45.7%

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

How much water do North Dakota's power plants use?

North Dakota's power plants took in 259 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 96%; 8.3 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 96.8%Used up 3.2%

Which hazards cost North Dakota most?

Tornadoes are North Dakota's biggest risk (moderate) ; the rest rate low or lower.

TornadoRelatively moderate
Inland floodingRelatively low
Heat waveRelatively low
WildfireRelatively low
DroughtVery low
EarthquakeVery low

Which AI campuses are in North Dakota?

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

AI campuses in North Dakota: CoreWeave Ellendale ND.

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of North Dakota's 53 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

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

Dickey County10 mapped · risk very low
Cass County2 mapped · risk relatively moderate
Williams County1 mapped · risk relatively low

3counties 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.

Dickey County10
Cass County2
Williams County1

10mapped buildings in Dickey County, the most in North Dakota

Site selection teams

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

3of 53 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

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

North Dakota+63.3%
US+10.5%

+63.3%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.

Drought0 of 3
Heat wave0 of 3
Inland flooding0 of 3
Tornado0 of 3

0of 3 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.

Natural gas1,458
Wind512
Solar295
Other240

2,506MW of new plants proposed for 2026–2030

What's inside North Dakota Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 53 North Dakota counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with North Dakota's real data.

The Intelligence app

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

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/north-dakota

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

13mapped buildings

1AI campus

7.36¢business power, per kWh

−0.8%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Dickey County	10	Very low	Very low	Very low
Cass County	2	moderate	low	Very low
Williams County	1	low	Very low	low

Hearings and filings

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

Hearings · North Dakota

North Dakota · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Dickey County10 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Cass County2 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Williams 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 · North Dakota

Power demandBusiness power sales −0.8% on the year before: 11.5 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskFEMA rates North Dakota's tornado loss Relatively moderate among statesFEMA National Risk Index
New supply2,506 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/38021

{
  "fips": "38021",
  "name": "Dickey County",
  "state": "ND",
  "pop2025": 4895,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": -2.1,
  "density_per_sqmi": 4.3,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Very Low",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Very Low",
      "score": 6.5

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Very Low",
      "score": 14.1
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Very Low",
      "score": 26.2
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "MISO",
      "SPP"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 6
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 7.36,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

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

North Dakota 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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North Dakota Data Center Intelligence

Where are North Dakota's data centers?

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

What will a North Dakota 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 North Dakota's power?

How much new power is proposed?

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

Which grid serves North Dakota?

How much water do North Dakota's power plants use?

Which hazards cost North Dakota most?

Which AI campuses are in North Dakota?

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 North Dakota 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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