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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Sabey Data Centers
- Address and locality
- German Gulch Rd & Rick Jones Way · Butte · Silver Bow County · Montana
- Lifecycle status
- reported cancelled
- 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-001273
What the source record says
Sabey withdrew/terminated its buy-sell agreement on 2026-05-13 after REC Silicon exercised a right of first refusal (dating to 1996) over part of the 606.5-acre Montana Connections parcel in April 2026. The project had planned an initial 50MW of power under a non-binding LOI with NorthWestern Energy for 2027, with scalability to 250MW+ by 2029 -- the higher figure is an aspirational scale-up target, not recorded in capacityMw. Butte-Silver Bow officials said afterward they were working with Sabey to identify an alternative parcel within or adjacent to the same industrial park; no replacement site was confirmed in sources checked this run (2026-09-13). Coordinate is a road-level OSM Nominatim geocode of German Gulch Road near the Ramsay/Ramsay-Butte area (Silver Bow County), not a confirmed parcel boundary.
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
- 2026-02 · reported proposed
Land purchase/sale agreement for a 606.5-acre parcel in the Montana Connections Industrial Park was still contingent on closing, with the deadline extended to Feb 11, 2026.
Sources and attribution
- Sabey: Butte, Montana Data Center · Baxtel
- Power Drain: A guide to proposed data centers so far in Montana · Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID sabey-butte-mt. 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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