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South Dakota Data Center Investment Tracker

South Dakota carries 1 named site commitment, set against 6 projects blocked, delayed or restricted, 1 cancelled or blocked and 4 delayed or under moratorium, as of October 8, 2026.

Updated October 8, 2026 1 named site 6 blocked, delayed or restricted 0 financing transactions 21 sources
South Dakota
SD
1 capital provider on record
Named sites
1
Site-level commitments the atlas records in South Dakota
Disclosed capital floor
n.a.
Sum of sites with a stated dollar figure. Sites without one are listed, not counted
Disclosed capacity
50 MW
Sum of sites with a stated megawatt figure
Blocked, delayed or restricted
6
$17.9B of announced capital in those projects
Who is investing

Who is investing in data centers in South Dakota?

The named commitments in South Dakota carry no disclosed dollar figure yet. The record is .
Named sites

Named data center sites in South Dakota

Each row is one site-level commitment with its capital provider, the figure the source states, and the status the source gives it. Capital is shown as one compact figure; the verbatim wording is in the row's sources.

SiteCapital providerPlaceCapitalMWStatusSources
Leola Data Center
PUC approval reported 8 to 9 September 2026; county conditional use permit deferred
 Leola Data Center
with Montana-Dakota Utilities
 Leola, McPherson County n.a. 50 utility service approved; county permit pending
Capital at risk

Blocked, delayed or restricted in South Dakota

Every project in South Dakota on the atlas's capital-at-risk record: the action taken, who took it, and the announced capital affected. Restarts and reversals are recorded with the same weight as blocks.

ProjectDeveloperJurisdictionActionCapitalSources
Applied Digital Toronto
cancelled January 6, 2026
 Applied Digital Toronto
Applied Digital confirmed its proposed $5B, 430MW data center campus near Toronto, SD is 'unlikely to go forward' after the legislature rejected tax incentives.
 $16.0B
Sioux Falls Hyperscale Data Center
moratorium February 24, 2026
 Gemini Data Center SD LLC (Gemini Capital) Lincoln County
Lincoln County Commissioner Joel Arends proposed a one-year moratorium on hyperscale data centers requiring 100+ MW, calling it an opportunity to 'press pause and further research' the impacts of projects like Gemini
 $1.9B
Aberdeen data center permit moratorium
moratorium Passed July 2026 (exact date not stated); runs to 18 November 2026; extension to 1 July 2027 set for a hearing on 19 October 2026 at the Monday 5 October 2026 council meeting
 n.a. Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen passed a moratorium on data center building and zoning permits in July 2026, under which city officials may not issue permits authorizing construction, expansion or operation of a data center within city limits; it runs to 18 November 2026. The council's Monday 5 October 2026 agenda set a public hearing for 19 October 2026 on Resolution 26-07-04R, which would extend it to 1 July 2027, citing water supply and noise.
 n.a.
Applied Digital Toronto data center campus
paused Company statement 13 March 2026 that the project is unlikely to go forward
 Applied Digital Deuel County / State of South Dakota
Applied Digital told KELOLAND News on 13 March 2026 that its proposed data center near Toronto, South Dakota, is unlikely to go forward, after the 2026 Legislature declined to pass a sales and use tax exemption for data center equipment (House Bill 1005 failed in committee). CEO Wes Cummins said later in March that he does not expect any projects in the state for now.
 n.a.
Lincoln County data center moratorium amendment (failed; Gemini Sioux Falls data center)
other Moratorium amendment failed 3-2 on 25 August 2026; regulation hearing set for 27 October 2026
 Gemini (Sioux Falls data center) Lincoln County Commission
At a joint meeting with the Sioux Falls City Council on Tuesday 25 August 2026, the Lincoln County Commission voted 3-2 against Commissioner Joel Arends' amendment to schedule a hearing on a data center moratorium, attached to adoption of the Sioux Falls 2050 comprehensive plan. A companion amendment barring non-disclosure agreements on zoning proposals also failed. The commission instead approved a public hearing on data center regulation for 27 October 2026. The Sioux Falls City Council had approved the controversial Gemini data center.
 n.a.
Yankton County six-month data center and bitcoin mining moratorium
moratorium Approved unanimously 21 July 2026; six months, extendable six months
 n.a. Yankton County Commission
Yankton County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday 21 July 2026 to pass a six-month moratorium on data center and bitcoin mining facility permits, shorter than the 12 months on the agenda. The commission may extend it another six months if no ordinance is drafted. The pause gives the county time to study economic and environmental effects and write regulations. The vote followed nearly an hour of public comment.
 n.a.
Policy context

What governs a data center in South Dakota

The policy layer for South Dakota lives in three companion references: the South Dakota Data Center Moratorium Tracker for every state measure and local moratorium on record, the Water Tracker for the water rules that touch a site, and the Grid Operator Watchlist for the large-load rules of the RTO or utility that decides whether it can energize.

Next door

States next door

Minnesota
3 sites
31 blocked, delayed or restricted
Iowa
3 sites · $7.0B disclosed
22 blocked, delayed or restricted
Nebraska
3 sites
16 blocked, delayed or restricted
Wyoming
11 sites · $57.8B disclosed
5 blocked, delayed or restricted
Montana
1 site
10 blocked, delayed or restricted
North Dakota
6 sites · $26.9B disclosed
4 blocked, delayed or restricted
On the map

Data centers in South Dakota

The US Data Center Map identifies 11 facilities run by 5 operators in South Dakota, each one placed from primary sources and listed by city and by operator, with this atlas record beside it.

South Dakota data centers
11 facilities · 5 operators
Map, locations, operators, rules
South Dakota power and local economy
Generation, utilities and county records
Explore the power supply chain and local conditions behind the build-out
US Data Center Map
Every state, one page each
The national map and the operator directory
Sources

Sources for South Dakota

Every source cited on this page, once each. The full atlas source register is at Capital Atlas sources.

Every state, one page each

Alabama 9 / 21Alaska 1 / 1Arizona 11 / 11Arkansas 2 / 8California 10 / 35Colorado 6 / 21Connecticut 0 / 6Delaware 0 / 5Florida 0 / 46Georgia 23 / 57Hawaii 0 / 0Idaho 2 / 2Illinois 10 / 35Indiana 14 / 44Iowa 3 / 22Kansas 5 / 19Kentucky 6 / 26Louisiana 7 / 3Maine 0 / 20Maryland 1 / 22Massachusetts 0 / 11Michigan 4 / 55Minnesota 3 / 31Mississippi 7 / 5Missouri 10 / 25Montana 1 / 10Nebraska 3 / 16Nevada 8 / 12New Hampshire 0 / 5New Jersey 4 / 61New Mexico 3 / 10New York 6 / 21North Carolina 10 / 45North Dakota 6 / 4Ohio 24 / 80Oklahoma 11 / 20Oregon 1 / 8Pennsylvania 16 / 42Rhode Island 0 / 5South Carolina 6 / 20South Dakota 1 / 6Tennessee 6 / 26Texas 106 / 35Utah 11 / 12Vermont 0 / 3Virginia 33 / 50Washington 9 / 22Washington, DC 0 / 0West Virginia 4 / 3Wisconsin 4 / 45Wyoming 11 / 5

Figures beside each state are named sites and blocked, delayed or restricted projects.

Part of the North American Data Center Capital Atlas, refreshed every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Announced commitments overlap one another and overlap reported capital expenditure, so this page shows disclosed floors and never adds them into a single deployment figure. Informational, not investment or legal advice.
The SAVRN reference set

Seven references, one system

Capital, delay, policy, water, grid, permits and scarcity are one system seen from seven sides. Each reference is primary-sourced, refreshed on a schedule, and links into the others, so a project can be followed from the money committed to the docket that stopped it.

Delay Watchlist
Project-level slippage: named projects, jurisdictional actions, utility and federal dockets, SEC disclosures, and the interconnection queue.
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Moratorium Tracker
The policy layer: every state measure and local moratorium mapped and cited, with one page per state.
Open the tracker →
Water Tracker
Every federal, state, local and interstate water measure that touches a data center, plus a fifty-state water ledger.
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Grid Operator Watchlist
ERCOT, PJM, MISO, CAISO, SPP, NYISO, ISO-NE and FERC: the large-load rules, filings and queue positions that decide whether a site can energize.
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Permits and Power Development
Data center and substation permits, large loads in the interconnection queues, and the power plants planned to serve them, refreshed hourly from public records.
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SAVRN Scarcity Tracker
Eleven primary-sourced indicators of AI infrastructure scarcity, one composite index, read against the token index, SAVRN's own cost basis and the frontier ceiling.
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