Faribault data center clears review amid Twin Cities growth

(Courtesy: Great River Energy News Clips with credit to Finance & Commerce)

A proposed data center in Faribault has cleared the environmental review process and is up for the next round of city approvals, a project that comes at a time when the Twin Cities market is poised for growth.

The Faribault City Council launched an environmental review of the project earlier this year and recently determined that the planned Archer Datacenters Faribault Campus project doesn’t have the potential for “significant environmental impacts.”
Jordan Milman, chairman and CEO of Archer Datacenters, LLC, told Finance & Commerce last November that the conceptual plan for the site is for a “footprint of up to 500,000 square feet across multiple potential data center buildings, and up to 120MW of power.”

“After looking at numerous sites across the greater Twin Cities region, the Faribault site proved ideal for a number of reasons,” including the “collaborative approach to power procurement that we are undertaking with Steele-Waseca Co-op Electric and Great River Energy,” Milman said.

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