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Polk County, Minnesota

Polk County, Minnesota has 5 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 4 operating plants totaling 14 MW and 1 planned project totaling 150 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 150 MW across 1 project. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
5
power projects, planned and operating
150MW
planned generation, 1 project
14MW
operating generation, 4 coal projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Polk County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 2 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Polk no data centers Red Lake no data centers Pennington no data centers Mahnomen Norman Marshall Clearwater
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

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10.7times

more planned than operating generation in Polk County. 1 project in the queue would add 150 MW to the 14 MW operating today.

Operating generation14 MW
Planned generation150 MW

Technology mix

5 projects, 164 MW planned and operating

Solar150 MW1 project, 91%
Coal14 MW4 projects, 9%
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Power generation in the county

4 plants operate inside Polk County, 14 MW of coal. The queue adds 150 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Polk County

OperatingPlanned
SolarPlanned 150 MW 1 project
CoalOperating 14 MW 4 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarPlanned1150
CoalOperating414
Operating: 14 MW. Planned: 150 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 164 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
050100150 Snapshot year 150 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20261150
No planned project is past its listed year

Polk County against its neighbors

None of the 2 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Pennington County has the most operating generation among them, 6.5 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Polk County this page 0
0
14
150 0x
Pennington County 0
0
7
0 0x
Red Lake County 0
0
6
130 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 Polk County

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