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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Amazon Web Services
- Address and locality
- Becker · Sherburne County · Minnesota
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 25 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000059
What the source record says
Amazon has not officially sold the 348-acre parcel and has not ruled out revisiting the project; 'cancelled' reflects indefinite suspension with no restart timeline. Near Xcel Energy's Sherburne County (Sherco) generating station, slated for retirement by 2030. Second major tech retreat from Becker after Google abandoned a $600M project in 2022. Star Tribune primary source was rate-limited (HTTP 429) at time of verification; story confirmed by Data Center Dynamics and multiple other outlets.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024 · reported proposed
Amazon purchased 348 acres near Xcel Energy's retiring Sherco coal plant in Becker for $73.5M; multibillion-dollar data center planned as economic replacement for coal plant jobs
- 2025 · reported cancelled
Amazon suspended plans citing 'uncertain' permit and utility agreement timelines; Minnesota lawmakers simultaneously reduced sales tax exemptions on electricity for large data center facilities
Sources and attribution
- Amazon suspends Minnesota data center as lawmakers plan to reduce Big Tech tax breaks · Star Tribune
- Amazon Web Services suspends plans for Minnesota data center · Data Center Dynamics
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- KNSI Radio — Amazon purchases 348 acres in Becker
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID amazon-becker-mn. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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