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Rapid City Data Center

A data center project in Rapid City is moving forward with concerns raised about heat and resource impacts. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 3 sources, 0 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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
10 acres
third party estimate [3]
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Not disclosed
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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast 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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Not disclosed
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land 10 acres third party estimate [3] rapidcityjournal.com September 25, 2026
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.
  • Who is behind itA land record, a zoning application or a company's own announcement.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Pennington County and Rapid City about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

DateWhoDecisionSource
Rapid 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
Rapid 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
Rapid 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
Rapid 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

What happened

No dated entry is on the record yet.

1 correction to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Eric Wolff, business development manager for Black Hills Energy, said Sequitor Edge data center may be at risk of not coming to fruition due to the city's regulatory efforts
Eric Wolff, Black Hills Energy business development manager · September 17, 2026 · paraphrased · Rapid City Journal local outlet

Every statement about data centers in South Dakota, by speaker

The site

Where in Pennington County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.

  • This record: Proposed, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 2 other published records in South Dakota
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
Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota
How exactly it is located
County level, the county seat
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.

Keep going

The county Pennington County 1 project on the record. The state Data centers in South Dakota Every South Dakota project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

5 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Rapid City Data Center?

The record has one measure of its size: 10 acres (third party estimate, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.

Who is building Rapid City Data Center?

Not disclosed. No source on file names the developer. The sources read for this record are listed under Sources.

How much power and water does Rapid City Data Center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Rapid City Data Center stand today?

It is reported; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.

What has Rapid City or Pennington County decided about it?

Rapid 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 (reported September 17, 2026, source); and Rapid 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 (reported September 17, 2026, source). 4 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Reporting

  1. Sequitor Edge targets 2MW facility in Rapid City, South Dakota, www.datacenterdynamics.com, February 12, 2026, trade press
  2. Heat raises resource concerns as Rapid City data center moves forward - KOTA Territory News, KOTA Territory News, July 2, 2026, local outlet
  3. Possible amendments to Rapid City’s data center ordinance could prompt planned data center to pull out, Rapid City Journal, September 17, 2026, local outlet

3 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Rapid City Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/rapid-city-data-center-sd, last verified September 25, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Slug
rapid-city-data-center-sd
Status value
rumored
Stage
Proposed
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/sd/pennington-county/rapid-city
Coordinates
44.08106, -103.22867
Location precision
county
Location source
County seat (Rapid City), Wikidata, placed at county level
Coordinate source
wikidata county seat
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 16, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
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
third_party_estimate
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-09-25