Cottonwood County, Minnesota
Cottonwood County, Minnesota has 18 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 14 operating plants totaling 305.6 MW and 4 planned projects totaling 900 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 886.8 MW across 8 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Cottonwood County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 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 Cottonwood County. 4 projects in the queue would add 900 MW to the 305.6 MW operating today.
Technology mix
18 projects, 1.2 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
14 plants operate inside Cottonwood County, 305.6 MW. The queue adds 900 MW across 4 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Cottonwood County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | Operating | 5 | 286.8 |
| Wind | Planned | 3 | 600 |
| Transmission | Planned | 1 | 300 |
| Oil | Operating | 8 | 17.5 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 1 | 1.3 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 200 |
| 2027 | 2 | 500 |
| 2028 | 1 | 200 |
Cottonwood County against its neighbors
Nobles County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 400 MW. 6 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nobles County | 1 | 400 | 0.79x | ||
| Murray County | 0 | 900 | 0x | ||
| Jackson County | 0 | 350 | 0x | ||
| Cottonwood County this page | 0 | 900 | 0x | ||
| Brown County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Redwood County | 0 | 1,543 | 0x | ||
| Watonwan 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.
7 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
2 projects in Cottonwood County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Cottonwood County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 2 changes.
| 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 Cottonwood County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 18 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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