Sabey Butte Data Center
Sabey backed out of its proposal to build a data center in Butte, Montana. It is cancelled, as reported May 29, 2026.
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
- Sabey
- 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 | Sabey | as stated by the source | September 17, 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 Silver Bow County and Butte 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butte-Silver Bow | The Supreme Court noted ballots had already been printed and mailed before issuing their injunction | nbcmontana.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | Montana Supreme Court vacated its injunction on a Butte Silver Bow data center ballot initiative | nbcmontana.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | The initiative would require two thirds approval from registered Butte Silver Bow voters before data centers can be built or expanded | mtstandard.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | Montana Supreme Court granted an injunction allowing a data center ballot initiative to appear on November ballots in Butte Silver Bow | mtstandard.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | The ballot initiative prohibits any construction or expansion of data centers within Butte Silver Bow city county without voter approval | dailymontanan.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | Local Initiative 00-02 would define data center and bar the city county from approving construction or expansion without a special election and support from two thirds of all registered voters | fairfieldsuntimes.com |
8 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butte-Silver Bow | Montana Supreme Court ordered Butte Silver Bow to certify Local Initiative 00-02 for the November 3, 2026 ballot despite deadline dispute | fairfieldsuntimes.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | A Butte judge ruled against 406 People First in its lawsuit over a data center ballot initiative signature dispute. | facebook.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | Judge Joseph ordered both sides to file briefings by 5 p.m. on Monday before making a final decision on whether equitable estoppel applies | nbcmontana.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | The initiative would require approval from two thirds of registered voters for the building or expansion of data centers in Butte-Silver Bow | nbcmontana.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | Election Administrator Cindy Sherman initially gave residents a deadline of August 14 to collect signatures for the data center initiative, then changed it retroactively to July 13 | nbcmontana.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | District Court Judge Frank Joseph heard arguments on whether a ballot initiative to limit data center building on the November ballot in Butte-Silver Bow | nbcmontana.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | District Court Judge Frank Joseph issued a temporary restraining order on August 12, 2026, while matter wound through courts but on August 28 sided with Butte Silver Bow | dailymontanan.com | |
| Butte-Silver Bow | Local Initiative 00-02 was proposed on April 29, 2026, requiring 3,652 valid signatures by August 14, 2026 to qualify for the ballot | fairfieldsuntimes.com |
What happened
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· Status: stalled or cancelled (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Sabey backs out of proposal to build data center in Butte, Montana [1]
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Sabey plans a data center in Silver Bow, Montana [2]
The full Sabey Butte Data Center timeline, in order
1 correction to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· 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.
The site
Where in Silver Bow County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Stalled or cancelled, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 4 other published records in Montana
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
- Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana
- 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.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Sabey Butte Data Center?
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Sabey is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Sabey Butte 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 Sabey Butte Data Center stand today?
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It is cancelled, as reported May 29, 2026. The newest entry, reported May 29, 2026: Sabey backs out of proposal to build data center in Butte, Montana [1].
What has Butte or Silver Bow County decided about it?
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Butte-Silver Bow: The Supreme Court noted ballots had already been printed and mailed before issuing their injunction (reported September 24, 2026, source); and Butte-Silver Bow: Montana Supreme Court vacated its injunction on a Butte Silver Bow data center ballot initiative (reported September 24, 2026, source). 14 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Sabey backs out of proposal to build data center in Butte, Montana - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, May 29, 2026, trade press
- Sabey Butte Data Center , Silver Bow, Montana, cleanview.co, May 15, 2026, local outlet
- Sabey Data Centers officially backs out of Butte agreement, nbcmontana.com, June 1, 2026, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Sabey Butte Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/sabey-butte-data-center-mt, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Sabey Butte Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/sabey-butte-data-center-mt. 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
- sabey-butte-data-center-mt
- Status value
- cancelled
- Stage
- Stalled or cancelled
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/mt/silver-bow-county/butte
- Coordinates
- 46.00639, -112.52972
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Butte), 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
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17