Data centers in Pennington County, South Dakota
Pennington County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. No county rule about data centers is on the record for Pennington County itself; 1 body inside it has a scorecard row. The latest decision on the record: Rapid City Planning Commission voted unanimously on September 10 to delay a vote on proposed data center ordinance amendments to the November 4 meeting (Rapid City), September 10, 2026.
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The data center in Pennington 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
- 10 acresthird party estimate
- Power
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Tenant
- Not disclosed
Where
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1 data center in Pennington 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 Pennington County on the record (1)
| City | Projects | Rules | Statements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rapid City | 1 | 1 | 1 |
What Pennington County has decided
1 body, 1 decision 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.
- Rapid Citycity
Rapid City Planning Commission voted unanimously on September 10 to delay a vote on proposed data center ordinance amendments to the November 4 meeting, September 10, 2026.
1 act on this row
- ordinance
Rapid City Planning Commission voted unanimously on September 10 to delay a vote on proposed data center ordinance amendments to the November 4 meeting
- ordinance
What happened
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
Stephen Tamang, Rapid City Council President, says that right now large scale data centers are not a net positive and are not welcome in Rapid City from his standpoint
Vicki Fisher, Community Development Director for Rapid City, says communities have experienced issues with data centers including water usage, sewer impact, electric usage, noise and vibration
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 Pennington County is for.
How the facilities are cooled
No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Pennington County is cooled.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data centers in Pennington County, South Dakota", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/sd/pennington-county, updated September 25, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Data center records in Pennington County, South Dakota", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/sd/pennington-county. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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The rows here are part of the South Dakota export.
For researchers
- Place id
- us/sd/pennington-county
- Level
- county
- Census GEOID
- Not disclosed
- Rating value
- Not disclosed
- Scale word
- Not disclosed