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Itasca County, Minnesota

Itasca County, Minnesota has 11 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 10 operating plants totaling 955.7 MW and 1 planned project totaling 200 MW. No data center record lists the county. Coal leads with 922.5 MW across 2 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
11
power projects, planned and operating
200MW
planned generation, 1 project
955.7MW
operating generation, 10 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Itasca County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Aitkin Beltrami no data centers St Louis 0 MW Koochiching no data centers Itasca no data centers Cass 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
21%

of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 200 MW planned across 1 project against 955.7 MW operating.

Operating generation955.7 MW
Planned generation200 MW

Technology mix

11 projects, 1.2 GW planned and operating

Coal922.5 MW2 projects, 80%
Battery Storage201 MW2 projects, 17%
Natural Gas26.5 MW2 projects, 2%
3 other technologies5.7 MW5 projects, 0%
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Power generation in the county

10 plants operate inside Itasca County, 955.7 MW. The queue adds 200 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Itasca County

OperatingPlanned
CoalOperating 922.5 MW 2 projects
Battery StorageOperating 1 MW 1 project
Battery StoragePlanned 200 MW 1 project
Natural GasOperating 26.5 MW 2 projects
HydroOperating 2.9 MW 3 projects
SolarOperating 2 MW 1 project
OilOperating 0.8 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
CoalOperating2922.5
Battery StorageOperating11
Battery StoragePlanned1200
Natural GasOperating226.5
HydroOperating32.9
SolarOperating12
OilOperating10.8
Operating: 955.7 MW. Planned: 200 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 1.2 GW.
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
050100150200 200 2028
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20281200
No planned project is past its listed year

Itasca County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. St Louis County has the most operating generation among them, 268.9 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Itasca County this page 0
0
956
200 0x
St Louis County 1
0
269
0 0x
Koochiching County 0
0
67
0 0x
Beltrami County 0
0
51
100 0x
Cass County 0
0
19
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.

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Every record in Itasca County

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