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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Leola Data Center, LLC
- Address and locality
- 11641 358th Avenue · Leola · McPherson County · South Dakota
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 50 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 13 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000860
What the source record says
Site is legally described as Section 28 (part E1/2), Township 126N, Range 68W, McPherson County -- a 20-acre parcel adjacent to Montana-Dakota Utilities' Leola Substation, at the SW corner of 358th Avenue (Highway 17) and 116th Street, about 5 miles southwest of Leola. The CUP application itself lists 11641 358th Avenue, Leola, SD 57456 as the site's general area/street address, which is what was geocoded here (US Census geocoder); precision is approximate because this is a street-level geocode, not a confirmed parcel-corner survey point. As of 2026-09-13 no final CUP decision had been located in sources checked this run.
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
- 2024-11 · reported proposed
Original conditional use permit application filed with McPherson County for a 50 MW data center on 2 of 20 acres adjacent to MDU's Leola Substation.
- 2024-12 · reported proposed
McPherson County enacted a moratorium on data-center siting and a one-mile setback ordinance while continuing to review this application.
Sources and attribution
- Leola Data Center -- McPherson County Conditional Use Permit Application & Supplemental Information · McPherson County, SD (via South Dakota PUC docket EL24-027)
- McPherson County Postpones Approval Of Leola Data Center Conditional Use Permit · Aberdeen Insider
- McPherson County Approves Moratorium On Data Centers, Enacts 1 Mile Setback · Aberdeen Insider
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID leola-data-center-mcpherson-county-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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