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Hand County, South Dakota

Hand County, South Dakota has 3 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 225.8 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 225 MW across 2 projects.

Data as of Grid region: Southwest Power Pool (SPP)Refreshed monthly
3
power projects, planned and operating
0MW
planned generation, 0 projects
225.8MW
operating generation, 3 projects
0
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Hand County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Hyde no data centers Buffalo no data centers Hand no data centers Spink Jerauld no data centers Faulk Beadle 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
225.8MW

of operating generation across 3 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Hand County.

Operating generation225.8 MW
Planned generation0 MW

Technology mix

3 projects, 225.8 MW planned and operating

Wind225 MW2 projects, 100%
Battery Storage0.8 MW1 project, 0%
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Power generation in the county

3 plants operate inside Hand County, 225.8 MW of wind and battery storage. Nothing is in the queue for the county.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Hand County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 225 MW 2 projects
Battery StorageOperating 0.8 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating2225
Battery StorageOperating10.8
Operating: 225.8 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.

Hand County against its neighbors

None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Buffalo County has the most operating generation among them, 538.3 MW.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Buffalo County 0
0
538
0 0x
Hyde County 0
0
491
0 0x
Hand County this page 0
0
226
0 0x
Jerauld County 0
0
213
0 0x
Beadle County 0
0
69
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 Hand County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 3 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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County: Hand County, SDStatus: all except cancelledSort: MW, largest first 3 records
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