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Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus
Toronto, Deuel County, South Dakota · All 7 Applied Digital sites
Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus is a cancelled data center in Toronto, South Dakota (Deuel County), operated by Applied Digital Corporation. The public record puts it at announced 2025, 430 MW planned, 200 acres.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Applied Digital Corporation
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Toronto, Deuel County, SD
- Coordinates
- 44.5670, -96.6200
- Power capacity
- 430 MW planned
- Land
- 200 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- 2025
- Utility
- Otter Tail Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 200 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- March 2026CancelledApplied Digital told Keloland (statement March 2026) that the project was 'unlikely to go forward,' citing the South Dakota legislature's failure to pass a 50-year sales-tax exemption on IT equipment, and said it would let its land option near Toronto lapse. Source: Data Center Dynamics
- 2025ProposedApplied Digital proposed a 430 MW AI data center campus near Toronto, SD, with up to $16 billion of announced investment and up to 200 permanent jobs. Data Center Dynamics reported the company was 'proposing an AI data center development east of Toronto in South Dakota.' Source: Data Center Dynamics
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus in Toronto, Deuel County, South Dakota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Proposed site was near Otter Tail Power transmission lines and a natural gas plant in Astoria.
Notes on the record
Status is 'cancelled' per Applied Digital's own March 2026 statement (land option to lapse). The 'up to $16 billion' investment and up to 200 jobs were announced figures for the proposal and are recorded in statusHistory rather than as structured investmentUsd/jobs, since the project will not proceed. aiClassification is 'confirmed', Data Center Dynamics reported it as an AI data center. The Otter Tail Power association reflects the proposed (now abandoned) siting.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus in Toronto?
Nothing on record as of July 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus in Toronto, Deuel County, South Dakota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus?
No lawsuit over Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus appears in the record we track as of July 25, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus, and how big is it?
Applied Digital Corporation is the operator on record. We hold 7 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 430 MW. The site is recorded at 200 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Applied Digital Deuel County AI Campus," updated July 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/applied-digital-deuel-county-sd.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/applied-digital-deuel-county-sd, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Applied Digital proposes multi-billion-dollar data center in South Dakota · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Applied Digital says data center near Toronto, South Dakota, unlikely to go forward · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 3.mykxlg.com, "Potential $14 Billion Data Center Could Transform Deuel County's Economy" · retrieved July 25, 2026
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