Data Center Registry
Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE)
Albertville, Wright County, Minnesota
Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) is a proposed data center in Albertville, Minnesota (Wright County), operated by Nodiac. The public record puts it at announced September 8, 2026, 20 MW planned, 3.66 acres.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Nodiac
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Albertville, Wright County, MN
- Coordinates
- 45.2347, -93.6642 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 20 MW planned
- Land
- 3.66 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- September 8, 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 1 permanent
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
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.
- September 8, 2026ProposedConcept review before Albertville City Council; no formal decision; data centers not currently allowed under city code Source: Hometown Source
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of November 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) in Albertville, Wright County, Minnesota 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
About 30,000 gallons trucked in on a five-to-eight-year cycle; not on municipal supply
Notes on the record
Site is at the intersection of 70th Street and Karment Avenue NE, next to a Wright-Hennepin electrical substation, on a newly created 3.66-acre parcel. Nodiac estimates 20 MW across 20 modular data center modules, 10 transformers and 30 equipment pads. Water would be trucked in, about 30,000 gallons on a 5-8 year cycle. The site would be unmanned apart from one on-call maintenance job. The location is the Albertville city centroid.
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.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- 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.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) in Albertville?
Nothing on record as of November 2, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) in Albertville, Wright County, Minnesota 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 Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE)?
No lawsuit over Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) appears in the record we track as of November 2, 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 Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as unknown, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE), and how big is it?
Nodiac is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 20 MW. The site is recorded at 3.66 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Nodiac Albertville Modular Data Center (70th St NE & Karment Ave NE)," updated November 2, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/nodiac-albertville-mn.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.35.1 (November 2, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/nodiac-albertville-mn, retrieved November 5, 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.Albertville City Council hears data center concept, approves preliminary tax levy · Hometown Source · retrieved November 2, 2026
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