Star Tribune: In Minnesota farm country, a plan for a $4 billion data center takes root with vast wind, solar and battery projects
26 Nov 2025
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A power developer has a novel plan to build a $4 billion data center in rural southwestern Minnesota, as well as an armada of wind, solar and battery plants the company hopes will attract a wealthy buyer.
Somewhere among the farm fields that dominate the landscape around the tiny enclaves of Brewster and Reading, Geronimo Power envisions a project that could eventually use as much electricity as roughly 1 million homes — dwarfing other data centers in Minnesota.
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