Benton County, Minnesota
Benton County, Minnesota has 37 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 32 operating plants totaling 30.3 MW and 5 planned projects totaling 799 MW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 350 MW across 2 projects.
Benton County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
more planned than operating generation in Benton County. 5 projects in the queue would add 799 MW to the 30.3 MW operating today, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
37 projects, 829.3 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
32 plants operate inside Benton County, 30.3 MW of solar and hydro. The queue adds 799 MW across 5 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Benton County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Storage | Planned | 2 | 350 |
| Wind | Planned | 1 | 249 |
| Solar | Operating | 21 | 21 |
| Solar | Planned | 2 | 200 |
| Hydro | Operating | 11 | 9.3 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 200 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| 2027 | 1 | 100 |
| 2028 | 2 | 499 |
Benton County against its neighbors
None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Sherburne County has the most operating generation among them, 2.7 GW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherburne County | 0 | 953 | 0x | ||
| Stearns County | 0 | 6 | 0x | ||
| Morrison County | 0 | 324 | 0x | ||
| Benton County this page | 0 | 799 | 0x | ||
| Mille Lacs County | 0 | 0 | 0x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
5 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
1 project in Benton County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Benton County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 1 change.
| Project | Change | Technology | MW | Previous date | New date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see the project behind each change, its developer and the dates that moved.
Every record in Benton County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 37 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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