Meta Rosemount Data Center
Meta lists a data center at Rosemount, Minnesota among the sites it operates. It is running, since July 16, 2025.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- Meta
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Meta | as stated by the source | October 4, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Dakota County and Rosemount about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inver Grove Heights | QLevr filed lawsuit in Dakota County District Court in July 2026 | mprnews.org | |
| Inver Grove Heights | One year moratorium approved in June 2026 | mprnews.org | |
| Inver Grove Heights | Proposed 55,000 square foot data center on Carmen Avenue East exempted from one year moratorium on September 15, 2026 | mprnews.org | |
| Inver Grove Heights | One year moratorium on data center construction approved in June 2026 | cbsnews.com | |
| Inver Grove Heights | City Council approves moratorium carve out for QLevr LLC data center on Carmen Avenue East on September 15, 2026 | cbsnews.com | |
| Inver Grove Heights | Inver Grove Heights made an exception to their moratorium on data centers to avoid multi million dollar lawsuit | audacy.com |
3 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inver Grove Heights | City council voted 3-1 to approve QLevr LLC's project carving it out of the moratorium | cbsnews.com | |
| Inver Grove Heights | Inver Grove Heights passed a pause on data centers | cbsnews.com | |
| Inver Grove Heights | Inver Grove Heights held a data center vote | kare11.com |
What happened
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(the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Meta lists Meta Rosemount Data Center at Rosemount, Minnesota on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]
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· Status: running (content date)
Meta deployed AI designed sustainable concrete at its data center construction site in Rosemount, Minnesota [3]
What was said
Sen. Erin Maye Quade said the federal Ratepayer Protection Act is a great first start but does not account for heat islands, water, noise or light pollution
The site
The pin is the site, as the EPA's facility record places it. Location from an EPA air permit.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Smaller pins: 12 other published records in Minnesota
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- 14701 Blaine Ave BLDG 1, Rosemount, MN 55068, Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota [source]
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, the point of the EPA's facility record
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- By the straight line between two exact points.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Meta Rosemount Data Center?
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Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Meta Rosemount Data Center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Meta Rosemount Data Center stand today?
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It is running, since July 16, 2025. The newest entry, July 16, 2025: Meta deployed AI designed sustainable concrete at its data center construction site in Rosemount, Minnesota [3].
What has Rosemount or Dakota County decided about it?
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Inver Grove Heights: QLevr filed lawsuit in Dakota County District Court in July 2026 (reported September 15, 2026, source); and Inver Grove Heights: One year moratorium approved in June 2026 (reported September 15, 2026, source). 9 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- EPA ECHO detailed facility report: Jimnist LLC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Using AI to make lower carbon, faster curing concrete - Engineering at Meta, Engineering at Meta, July 16, 2025, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Meta Rosemount Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-rosemount-data-center-mn, last verified October 4, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Meta Rosemount Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-rosemount-data-center-mn. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- meta-rosemount-data-center-mn
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/mn/dakota-county/rosemount
- Coordinates
- 44.73429, -93.054972
- Location precision
- permit_point
- Location source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110071654357
- Coordinate source
- https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110071654357
- Location source number
- [1]
- Location last verified
- October 4, 2026
- EPA registry id
- 110071654357
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-10-04