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Wheatland County, Montana

Wheatland County, Montana has 6 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 4 operating plants totaling 164.7 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 710 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 874.7 MW across 6 projects. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: NorthWestern EnergyRefreshed monthly
6
power projects, planned and operating
710MW
planned generation, 2 projects
164.7MW
operating generation, 4 wind projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Wheatland County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 1 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Golden Valley Wheatland no data centers Meagher no data centers Judith Basin Fergus Sweet Grass
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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4.3times

more planned than operating generation in Wheatland County. 2 projects in the queue would add 710 MW to the 164.7 MW operating today.

Operating generation164.7 MW
Planned generation710 MW

Technology mix

6 projects, 874.7 MW planned and operating

Wind874.7 MW6 projects, 100%
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Power generation in the county

4 plants operate inside Wheatland County, 164.7 MW of wind. The queue adds 710 MW across 2 projects.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Wheatland County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 164.7 MW 4 projects
WindPlanned 710 MW 2 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating4164.7
WindPlanned2710
Operating: 164.7 MW. Planned: 710 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 874.7 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
0200400600800 80 2029 2030 630 2031
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YearPlanned projectsMW
2029180
203000
20311630
No planned project is past its listed year

Wheatland County against its neighbors

None of the 1 neighboring county with a page lists a data center record. Meagher County has the most operating generation among them, 17.7 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Wheatland County this page 0
0
165
710 0x
Meagher County 0
0
18
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 Wheatland County

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