Data Centers in South Dakota
South Dakota has 11 data centers identified from primary sources across 4 counties, run by 5 operators, against an industry reference count of 10. Minnehaha County holds the largest cluster with 6. SPP runs the grid for most of the state. 2 state measures on record (enacted) and 1 local pause; 0 named projects delayed or blocked.
Where South Dakota's data centers stand
Key facts
- Data centers identified
- 11 from the operators' own facility lists, PeeringDB, OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
- Target count
- 10 facilities in the industry reference count for South Dakota; this map holds 11 of them (110.0 percent), -1 still to identify
- Largest cluster
- Minnehaha County with 6 facilities
- Largest operator
- Midcontinent Communications with 4 facilities
- Grid operator
- SPP and MISO
- State measures
- 2 on record, strongest status enacted
- Local pauses
- 1 city or county moratoria · 4 local restrictions on the delay watchlist
- Water measures
- 1 state and local, plus the federal measures that apply everywhere
South Dakota data centers, in short
South Dakota has 11 data centers identified from primary sources, spread across 4 cities and counties and run by 5 operators. The largest concentration is Sioux Falls, with 5 data centers, followed by Rapid City with 2 and Yankton with 2.
The operators with the most data centers in South Dakota are Midcontinent Communications (4), South Dakota Network (2), TierPoint (2), Golden West Telecommunications Coop (1), Sequitor Edge (1). Colocation and interconnection providers appear most often because they publish building-level detail; hyperscale campuses appear where the operator or the county names the individual buildings.
Not every operator discloses size. In South Dakota, 4 publish a floor area and 1 publish a power figure, and each figure is shown against the data center it belongs to rather than added into one number. They are not the same measurement: one operator states the floor area of a single building, another the full capacity of a campus it has only announced.
SPP runs the wholesale power market and the high-voltage grid for most of South Dakota. 2 statewide measures governing data centers are on record, alongside 1 local pause.
South Dakota data centers by city
Every data center identified in South Dakota, grouped by the city or county it stands in, 11 of them across 4 places. Each entry names the operator and links to the source that states it.
Data centers in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Midco Sioux Falls Midcontinent Communications 5401 S Solberg Ave 2 networks
- Sioux Falls Data Center Midcontinent Communications 11,000 sq ft
- SDN Communications Campus Sioux Falls South Dakota South Dakota Network 2900 W 10th Street 3 networks
- TierPoint Sioux Falls - East TierPoint 700 East 54th Street North 16,000 sq ft2 networks
- ADP South Dakota
Data centers in Rapid City, South Dakota
- Golden West Rapid City Skyline Facility Golden West Telecommunications Coop 3850 Tower Road 3 networks
- Sequitor Edge Rapid City data center Sequitor Edge Black Hills Industrial Center, south of Old Folsom Road and east of Highway 79 30,000 sq ft2 MW
Data centers in Yankton, South Dakota
- Midco Yankton Midcontinent Communications 2106 W City Limits Rd 2 networks
- Yankton Data Center Midcontinent Communications
Data centers in Unincorporated Minnehaha County, South Dakota
- SDN Communication Mark Shlanta Technology Park South Dakota Network 5300 North La Mesa Drive Mailing address: Sioux Falls 25,000 sq ft4 networks
- TierPoint Sioux Falls - West TierPoint 5300 North La Mesa Drive Mailing address: Sioux Falls 1 networks
Floor area and power appear only where the operator or a government record publishes them. A building the sources describe without naming it is listed as a data center building at its county.
Where they cluster, and who runs them
Facilities by county 4
Operators 5
Cities 3
The rules and the pipeline in South Dakota
South Dakota has 2 state measures on record (enacted), 1 local pause, and 1 state or local water measure. SPP runs the grid there. Each tracker below holds the full record for South Dakota, with every entry sourced.
South Dakota data centers, answered from the record
How many data centers are in South Dakota?
The industry reference count for South Dakota is 10 facilities. This map places 11 of them from primary sources, each with a source record you can open, and every entry names the operator, the county, and the grid operator that serves it. The rest are mostly small regional colocation providers and enterprise buildings that no public register describes.
Where are South Dakota's data centers?
They are listed on this page city by city. By city: Sioux Falls (5), Rapid City (2), Yankton (2). By county: Minnehaha County (6), Pennington County (2), Yankton County (2). Every data center identified in South Dakota appears under the city or county it stands in, with its operator and the source that names it.
Who operates data centers in South Dakota?
5 operators appear in the registers for South Dakota. The largest by facility count: Midcontinent Communications (4), South Dakota Network (2), TierPoint (2), Golden West Telecommunications Coop (1), Sequitor Edge (1). Interconnection-heavy providers are over-represented because PeeringDB records where networks meet; hyperscalers appear where contributors have mapped their buildings.
Does South Dakota have a data center moratorium?
South Dakota has 2 state measures on record: SB 135: Data Center Bill of Rights for Citizens (enacted, Mar 2026); SB 232: One-year hyperscale data center moratorium (failed, Feb 2026). 1 city or county pause is on record locally. The South Dakota Data Center Moratorium Tracker carries each measure with its primary source and a weekly changelog.
Which grid operator serves South Dakota data centers?
SPP runs the wholesale power market and the high-voltage transmission system for most of South Dakota; MISO covers the rest. Black Hills (Rapid City), NorthWestern SD, and Basin/East River co-op territory SPP; Xcel (Sioux Falls) and Otter Tail areas MISO. Split is close, no public state load-share figure located; SPP dominance inferred from…
Are new data centers being built or delayed in South Dakota?
0 named projects in South Dakota are delayed, blocked, or under challenge, with 4 local restrictions, 1 jurisdictional action, 0 utility dockets, and 0 flagged queue row or large-load studys. The capital atlas records 0 named sites in South Dakota and 0 projects blocked, delayed, or halted.
Facility layer: PeeringDB (Acceptable Use Policy), OpenStreetMap (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors), Wikidata (CC0), US Census Bureau boundaries. Tracker layers: the SAVRN Moratorium Tracker, Water Tracker, Grid Operator Watchlist, Delay Watchlist, and Capital Atlas, each primary-sourced. Method on the national map.
South Dakota across the SAVRN trackers
The same state followed through the money, the policy, the water and the delays. Each page is primary-sourced and refreshed on its own schedule, and each links back here.