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Clay County, Minnesota

Clay County, Minnesota has 20 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 17 operating plants totaling 77.6 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 920 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 926 MW across 9 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
20
power projects, planned and operating
920MW
planned generation, 3 projects
77.6MW
operating generation, 17 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Clay County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 1 of its 4 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Otter Tail no data centers Norman Becker Wilkin Clay no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

Headline finding
11.9times

more planned than operating generation in Clay County. 3 projects in the queue would add 920 MW to the 77.6 MW operating today.

Operating generation77.6 MW
Planned generation920 MW

Technology mix

20 projects, 997.6 MW planned and operating

Solar926 MW9 projects, 93%
Wind55.1 MW4 projects, 6%
Oil11.5 MW5 projects, 1%
One other technology5 MW2 projects, 1%
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Power generation in the county

17 plants operate inside Clay County, 77.6 MW. The queue adds 920 MW across 3 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Clay County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 6 MW 6 projects
SolarPlanned 920 MW 3 projects
WindOperating 55.1 MW 4 projects
OilOperating 11.5 MW 5 projects
CoalOperating 5 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating66
SolarPlanned3920
WindOperating455.1
OilOperating511.5
CoalOperating25
Operating: 77.6 MW. Planned: 920 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 997.6 MW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
0200400600 430 2028 2029 490 2030
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20281430
202900
20302490
No planned project is past its listed year

Clay County against its neighbors

None of the 1 neighboring county with a page lists a data center record. Otter Tail County has the most operating generation among them, 53.4 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Clay County this page 0
0
78
920 0x
Otter Tail County 0
0
53
360 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.

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Every record in Clay County

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