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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Rosemount · Dakota County · Minnesota
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 75 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 24 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000949
What the source record says
Site is 280 acres of UMore Park (former WWII smokeless powder facility, then Univ. of Minnesota agricultural research land) in Rosemount. Meta's 19th US data center. Coordinates approximate for northern UMore Park area. Additional parcels purchased Feb 2025 via Jimnist LLC for potential expansion; no current build plan on those parcels.
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
- 2024-03 · reported proposed
Governor Walz announced Meta's $800M, 715,000 sq ft data center on 280 acres of UMore Park (purchased from University of Minnesota); internal project name 'Project Bigfoot'
- 2024 · reported under construction
Construction underway; LEED Gold certification and operational status targeted 2026
Sources and attribution
- Hello, Rosemount! — Meta Data Centers blog · Meta
- Meta Picks Rosemount for $800M Data Center · Twin Cities Business
- Governor Walz Announces Meta Will Build New Data Center in Rosemount — MN DEED · Minnesota DEED
- Meta buys more land in Rosemount, Minnesota, for data center project · Data Center Dynamics
- $700M Meta data center in Rosemount can move ahead after key approval · Star Tribune
- Minnesota's first hyperscale data center nearing completion in Rosemount · InForum
- Governor Walz Announces Meta Will Build New Data Center in Rosemount · Office of Governor Tim Walz
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-rosemount-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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