How big is Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?

Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.

Who is building Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?

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

Who will use Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?

Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.

How much power and water does Yellowstone County data center (eyeing) say it needs?

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

Where does Yellowstone County data center (eyeing) 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 Yellowstone County decided about it?

Yellowstone County: Kassi Solberg aims to have a ballot initiative approved for the Yellowstone County election on May 4, 2027 (reported September 24, 2026, source); and Yellowstone County: Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County (reported September 24, 2026, source). 13 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

What is still unknown about Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?

Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is building it, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Reported Built from one source

Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)

A data center company eyeing Yellowstone County had top employees make matching political donations before announcing plans, while residents are demanding a vote on a moratorium as the county takes no action. 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 September 17, 2026 · 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: Not disclosed
Power it would draw: Not disclosed
Water: Not disclosed; Reported by others: 20,000 gallons a day (montanarightnow.com). Their figure, not the record's.
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

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	Not disclosed
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

How much water it would use, also reported: 20,000 gallons a day, 2026 (montanarightnow.com: Quantica Infrastructure estimates using 20,000 gallons of water per day once completed using closed loop cooling technology) .

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 Yellowstone County and the cities in it 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
Reported September 24, 2026	Yellowstone County	Kassi Solberg aims to have a ballot initiative approved for the Yellowstone County election on May 4, 2027	montanafreepress.org
Reported September 24, 2026	Yellowstone County	Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County	montanafreepress.org
Reported September 24, 2026	Yellowstone County	Yellowstone County commissioners sent a letter asking local legislators to refine the Right to Compute Act	montanafreepress.org
Reported September 21, 2026	Yellowstone County	Yellowstone County Commissioners asked their district court in July 2026 for a judgment on the constitutionality of a citizen petition requiring voter approval for data center developments.	montanafreepress.org
Reported September 7, 2026	Yellowstone County	Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito said the 2025 Right to Compute Act, passed with bipartisan support (61-38 House, 50-0 Senate), prevents interim zoning on data centers by requiring restrictions be narrowly tailored and preventing restrictions if less restrictive means exist.	montanafreepress.org
Reported September 7, 2026	Yellowstone County	Yellowstone County residents and opponents of the Quantica data center project in Broadview requested interim zoning to pause development pending county review of data center impacts.	montanafreepress.org

7 earlier decisions on the county's rows

Date	Who	Decision	Source
Reported August 18, 2026	Yellowstone County	Commission scheduled to discuss emergency zoning request at August 27, 2026 meeting in Billings	ktvq.com
Reported August 18, 2026	Yellowstone County	Yellowstone County commissioners agreed to discuss emergency interim zoning ordinance following public meeting on Tuesday, August 18, 2026	ktvq.com
Reported August 14, 2026	Yellowstone County	A Billings judge ruled on a similar data center ballot initiative issue that the deadline for collecting signatures had passed under Montana Code Annotated 13-28-206	kbzk.com
August 11, 2026	Yellowstone County	On August 11, 2026, Yellowstone County District Court invalidated a citizen petition requiring data center voter approval on the basis of procedural deadline failure, leaving the Right to Compute Act's regulatory implications unaddressed.	montanafreepress.org
Reported August 11, 2026	Yellowstone County	No charges were filed against the signature gatherers according to Sheriff O'Donnell	ktvq.com
Reported August 11, 2026	Yellowstone County	Volunteers collecting signatures for Yellowstone County Voices reported harassment by security guards and law enforcement at MontanaFair on Sunday	ktvq.com
Reported August 11, 2026	Yellowstone County	Yellowstone County Judge Ed Zink ruled that gatherers missed the deadline to collect signatures for the data center ballot measure	ktvq.com

What happened

No dated entry is on the record yet.

3 corrections to this record

1 figure taken off this record, September 29
2 source tier relabels, September 23

Every correction, with its reason

September 29, 2026 · the draft of a reference figures row

The record could not read this figure's source: the page answered with no article text, so none reached the classifier, which scored card 12506 from the headline alone, and the number came from the headline; published by the bulk approve of 2026-09-25. A reference figure needs a source the record read: returned to draft, off every page, until a readable source that states it is cited (docs/batch-unread-figures-0929.md). The old and new text.
September 23, 2026 · 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.
September 23, 2026 · 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 Yellowstone 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: 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: Yellowstone 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.

Comparisons

1 metric with more than one figure

Every figure on the record for the same thing, the record's own or the document's first, each with who gave it, its date and its basis.

Water a day

1 figure, 1 source

Not disclosedNot disclosed

No filing or developer document on the record states one.

20,000 gallons a dayEstimate

montanarightnow.com, Sep 4, 2026

Show each source's words

20,000 gallons a day, montanarightnow.com: Quantica Infrastructure estimates using 20,000 gallons of water per day once completed using closed loop cooling technology

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

Questions about this project

7 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?: Not disclosed. No source on file gives its capacity, its acreage or a count of buildings. What the record holds instead is under Disclosed.
Who is building Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?: Not disclosed. No source on file names the developer. The sources read for this record are listed under Sources.
Who will use Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?: Not disclosed. No source on file names a tenant, says whether the site is single or multi tenant, or states what it is for. The record keeps the use as not disclosed until one does; see Who it serves.
How much power and water does Yellowstone County data center (eyeing) say it needs?: Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Yellowstone County data center (eyeing) 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 Yellowstone County decided about it?: Yellowstone County: Kassi Solberg aims to have a ballot initiative approved for the Yellowstone County election on May 4, 2027 (reported September 24, 2026, source); and Yellowstone County: Kassi Solberg collected more than 14,000 signatures toward a ballot initiative requiring voter approval for data centers in Yellowstone County (reported September 24, 2026, source). 13 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
What is still unknown about Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)?: Not disclosed by any source on file: how much power it needs, how much water it would use, how loud it would be, jobs once it runs, tax it would pay each year, who is building it, who is constructing it, how much land, where its power comes from, grid connection, how it is cooled. No missing primary document is listed for this record yet; What the record lacks is where one appears when a person names it.

Sources

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

Reporting

Top employees for data center company eyeing Yellowstone County made matching political donations before announcing plans - Montana Free Press, Montana Free Press, September 3, 2026, local outlet
Montana residents demand vote on data center moratorium as Yellowstone County takes no action - The Cool Down, The Cool Down, September 3, 2026, local outlet
Opposition erupts as Yellowstone County files suit over data center initiative - Billings Gazette, Billings Gazette, July 9, 2026, local outlet

3 sources on file.

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Data Center Record, "Yellowstone County data center (eyeing)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/yellowstone-county-data-center-eyeing-mt, last verified September 17, 2026.

Last verified September 17, 2026, first recorded September 5, 2026. Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Slug: yellowstone-county-data-center-eyeing-mt
Status value: rumored
Stage: Proposed
Tier: skeleton
Tags: skeleton
Place id: us/mt/yellowstone-county
Coordinates: 45.78667, -108.53722
Location precision: county
Location source: County seat (Billings), 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