Data centers in Morton County, North Dakota
Morton County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Morton County has a scorecard row with no rating yet. The latest decision on the record: Mandan residents gathered over 700 signatures on a petition to limit data centers to 25 megawatts or less of power use (Mandan), September 23, 2026.
How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.
The data center in Morton County
Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Morton County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.
The cities in Morton County on the record (1)
| City | Projects | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| Mandan | 1 | 1 |
What Morton County has decided
2 bodies, 3 decisions on the recordWhat the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.
Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.
- Morton Countycounty
Ordinance passed 5-1, with Tokach voting against due to tonal noise issue, reported September 19, 2026.
2 acts on this row
- ordinance
Ordinance passed 5-1, with Tokach voting against due to tonal noise issue
- ordinance
Morton County Commission approved data center ordinance on September 10, 2026
- ordinance
- Mandancity
Mandan residents gathered over 700 signatures on a petition to limit data centers to 25 megawatts or less of power use, reported September 23, 2026.
1 act on this row
- event
Mandan residents gathered over 700 signatures on a petition to limit data centers to 25 megawatts or less of power use
- event
What happened
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· Mandan
Scorecard event: Mandan residents gathered over 700 signatures on a petition to limit data centers to 25 megawatts or less of power use news.prairiepublic.org local outlet
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· Morton County
Ordinance: Ordinance passed 5-1, with Tokach voting against due to tonal noise issue bismarcktribune.com local outlet
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· Morton County
Ordinance: Morton County Commission approved data center ordinance on September 10, 2026 bismarcktribune.com local outlet
What was said
Susan Beehler, organizer, said the group is concerned about a hyper scale data center planned near Mandan Middle School and Mandan High School
Nearby counties with records
Disclosed figures
nothing disclosed by 1 record
Power, water, jobs and tax
| Figure | Disclosed total | Disclosed | Not disclosed | Basis | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per day | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Water, stated per year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Permanent jobs | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record | |
| Tax each year | Not disclosed | 0 | 1 | Not disclosed by any of the 1 record |
Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.
By what the facilities are for
| Use | Records | Power | Water | Jobs | Tax each year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not disclosed | 1 | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Not disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year |
A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.
What the facilities are for
No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Morton County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Morton County is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Morton County, North Dakota", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nd/morton-county, updated September 23, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Morton County, North Dakota", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/nd/morton-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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The rows here are part of the North Dakota export.
For researchers
- Place id
- us/nd/morton-county
- Level
- county
- Census GEOID
- Not disclosed
- Rating value
- Not disclosed
- Scale word
- Not disclosed