Stearns County, Minnesota
Stearns County, Minnesota has 72 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 69 operating plants totaling 192.7 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 6 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 102.9 MW across 64 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.
Stearns County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 8 of its 9 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
of the county's operating generation is in the queue as new capacity: 6 MW planned across 3 projects against 192.7 MW operating.
Technology mix
72 projects, 198.7 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
69 plants operate inside Stearns County, 192.7 MW. The queue adds 6 MW across 3 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Stearns County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar | Operating | 61 | 96.9 |
| Solar | Planned | 3 | 6 |
| Wind | Operating | 1 | 78 |
| Oil | Operating | 5 | 9.2 |
| Hydro | Operating | 2 | 8.6 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 6 |
Stearns County against its neighbors
Wright County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 150 MW. 8 of the 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wright County | 2 | 0 | 0.19x | ||
| Sherburne County | 0 | 953 | 0x | ||
| Stearns County this page | 0 | 6 | 0x | ||
| Meeker County | 0 | 700 | 0x | ||
| Morrison County | 0 | 324 | 0x | ||
| Benton County | 0 | 799 | 0x | ||
| Pope County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Kandiyohi County | 0 | 201 | 0x | ||
| Douglas County | 0 | 40 | 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.
9 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
3 projects in Stearns County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Stearns County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 3 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 Stearns County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 72 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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