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Steele County, Minnesota

Steele County, Minnesota has 19 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 124.8 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 57.8 MW across 5 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
19
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
124.8MW
operating generation, 19 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Steele County and its neighbors

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

Freeborn no data centers Rice 120 MW Dodge no data centers Steele no data centers Waseca no data centers Mower 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
124.8MW

of operating generation across 19 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Steele County.

Operating generation124.8 MW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

19 projects, 124.8 MW planned and operating

Natural Gas57.8 MW5 projects, 46%
Wind44 MW1 project, 35%
Solar14.4 MW8 projects, 12%
One other technology8.6 MW5 projects, 7%
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Power generation in the county

19 plants operate inside Steele County, 124.8 MW. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

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Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Steele County

OperatingPlanned
Natural GasOperating 57.8 MW 5 projects
WindOperating 44 MW 1 project
SolarOperating 14.4 MW 8 projects
OilOperating 8.6 MW 5 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
Natural GasOperating557.8
WindOperating144
SolarOperating814.4
OilOperating58.6
Operating: 124.8 MW. Planned: 0 MW. Nothing is in the queue to add to it.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.

Steele County against its neighbors

Rice County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 120 MW. 5 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Rice County 1
120
404
6 0.3x
Mower County 0
0
1,145
1,332 0x
Freeborn County 0
0
428
350 0x
Steele County this page 0
0
125
0 0x
Dodge County 0
0
78
228 0x
Waseca County 0
0
38
5 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.

6 counties shown

Every record in Steele County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 19 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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