CleanSpark Rapid City Data Center Proposal, in order
What happened with this project, oldest first: the stages it reached, what the county and its cities decided, and every dated step on the record. Each entry links its source.
3 events, April 13, 2026 to October 14, 2026. Also on the record, under the month each belongs to: 3 lines that are not events of their own. The facts, newest first: the record; the place: South Dakota.
A plain date is the day it happened, as the source states it, or as the line's own sentence states it ("voted on July 6"), which is where the line sits even when it was filed later. "Reported" and a date is the day a source published a line that carries no date of its own. Those lines, and lines that describe rather than report an act, sit under their month rather than on the timeline, with what was said and the figures other sources gave. Every timeline on the site reads its lines by this one rule. How dates are read.
Stages
2026 3 events
-
(content date)
proposed
Black Hills Power filed an electric service agreement with CleanSpark subsidiary CSRE Properties South Dakota LLC at the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission in Docket EL26-011 for a proposed data center in Rapid City. [1]
-
(content date)
Decision · Rapid City (city)
Rapid City Planning Commission voted unanimously on September 10 to delay a vote on proposed data center ordinance amendments to the November 4 meeting rapidcityjournal.com (opens in a new tab)
-
Also in September 2026: 3 lines that are not events of their own
-
(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · Rapid City (city)
Micro data centers are defined as having a peak power demand of up to 10 megawatts and no more than 3,000 gallons of water per day rapidcityjournal.com (opens in a new tab)
-
(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · Rapid City (city)
Large scale data centers are defined as using more than 10 megawatts but up to a maximum of 30 megawatts at peak demand and using a maximum of 10,000 gallons of water a day rapidcityjournal.com (opens in a new tab)
-
(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Decision · Rapid City (city)
The proposed ordinance would define hyperscale data centers as centers using 30 or more megawatts of power at peak demand or more than 10,000 gallons of water a day rapidcityjournal.com (opens in a new tab)
-
-
(content date)
Decision · Rapid City (city)
Rapid City held a town hall survey on data center policy with over 220 residents participating, with most responses opposing data centers or supporting strict controls. sdpb.org (opens in a new tab)
On the timeline: a stage change; an entry that reports an act on the day the source or its own sentence gives; and a decision, a published scorecard event on a row at or under the record's county, that reports an act. Under the months: a statement that names this record, a figure another source gave about it, matched by place and developer, an entry dated only by the day its source was published, and an entry or a decision that describes rather than reports an act. Each is on the record in its own right and keeps its own link.
For researchers
- Stage
- proposed
- Events on the timeline
- 3
- Under the months
- 3
- Stage changes
- 1
- Decisions
- 5
- Statements
- 0
- Figures
- 0
- Entries and decisions under the months
- 3