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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Gemini Data Center SD LLC
- Address and locality
- Sioux Falls · Minnehaha County · South Dakota
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 6 July 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000693
What the source record says
aiClassification is 'likely' (not 'confirmed'): Gemini is the land developer, no tenant is signed, and only developer aspiration to attract a hyperscale/AI/neocloud tenant is on record. Capacity (500 MW) and acreage per SiouxFalls.Business; an earlier report cited 160 acres. Coordinates are approximate for the northeast Sioux Falls site. As a developer land project with no signed tenant, its water, subsidy, investment, and job figures remain developer projections only (South Dakota has no state income tax and rejected data-center incentive bills); all recorded as honest-zeros pending a confirmed tenant.
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
- 2025 · reported proposed
Gemini Data Center SD LLC (a California family office under Michael Anvar) acquired ~164 acres from Xcel Energy northeast of Sioux Falls, adjacent to Xcel's Split Rock substation, and sought city approvals for a data center supporting up to 500 MW. Gemini is the land developer, not the operator; no tenant is signed.
- 2026-01 · reported permitted
Sioux Falls City Council approved annexation (October 8, 2025) and unanimously approved rezoning from agricultural to light industrial (January 2026), despite hours of opposing testimony. Construction was targeted for 2026 and operation for 2028. The developer committed to funding all utility extensions at its own cost.
Sources and attribution
- Hyperscale data center seeking city approvals to build northeast of Sioux Falls · SiouxFalls.Business
- Sioux Falls data center developers detail next steps · SiouxFalls.Business
- Planned hyperscale data center moving into South Dakota's largest city · The Dakota Scout
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID gemini-data-center-sioux-falls-sd. 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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