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Butler County, Nebraska

Butler County, Nebraska has 8 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 7 operating plants totaling 10.6 MW and 1 planned project totaling 174.5 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 174.5 MW across 1 project. No planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
8
power projects, planned and operating
174.5MW
planned generation, 1 project
10.6MW
operating generation, 7 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Butler County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 7 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Polk Seward Saunders no data centers Colfax Dodge no data centers Lancaster 1.1 GW Butler no data centers Platte 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
16.5times

more planned than operating generation in Butler County. 1 project in the queue would add 174.5 MW to the 10.6 MW operating today.

Operating generation10.6 MW
Planned generation174.5 MW

Technology mix

8 projects, 185.1 MW planned and operating

Solar174.5 MW1 project, 94%
Oil5.8 MW4 projects, 3%
Natural Gas4.8 MW3 projects, 3%
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Power generation in the county

7 plants operate inside Butler County, 10.6 MW of oil and natural gas. The queue adds 174.5 MW across 1 project.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Butler County

OperatingPlanned
SolarPlanned 174.5 MW 1 project
OilOperating 5.8 MW 4 projects
Natural GasOperating 4.8 MW 3 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarPlanned1174.5
OilOperating45.8
Natural GasOperating34.8
Operating: 10.6 MW. Planned: 174.5 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 185.1 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
050100150200 175 2027
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20271174.5
No planned project is past its listed year

Butler County against its neighbors

Lancaster County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 1.1 GW. 3 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Lancaster County 7
1,090
811
3,938 1.3x
Dodge County 0
0
178
150 0x
Platte County 0
0
139
0 0x
Saunders County 0
0
95
0 0x
Butler County this page 0
0
11
175 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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