Data Center Registry
North Data Center Great Falls
Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana
North Data Center Great Falls is an operating data center in Great Falls, Montana (Cascade County), operated by North Data Center, LLC.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- North Data Center, LLC
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 417 Central Ave, Suite 328, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT, 59401
- Coordinates
- 47.5053, -111.3005 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- 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.
- October 8, 2026OperatingThe operator advertises a carrier-neutral N+1 colocation data center in downtown Great Falls. Source: North Data Center, LLC
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 8, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over North Data Center Great Falls in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana 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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Notes on the record
Small carrier-neutral colocation facility. The operator lists Zayo, CenturyLink, Vision Net and Hurricane Electric as carriers.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- 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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- 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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Other sites within 30 miles
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.
- Project Cardinal (TAC Data Centers Great Falls Campus) · Great Falls · TAC Data Centers (The Ardent Companies)under 1 mile · Cancelled · 600 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the North Data Center Great Falls in Great Falls?
Nothing on record as of October 8, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over North Data Center Great Falls in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana 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 North Data Center Great Falls?
No lawsuit over North Data Center Great Falls appears in the record we track as of October 8, 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 North Data Center Great Falls use?
No water withdrawal figure for North Data Center Great Falls 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 North Data Center Great Falls, and how big is it?
North Data Center, LLC is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "North Data Center Great Falls," updated October 8, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/north-data-center-great-falls-mt.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/north-data-center-great-falls-mt, retrieved October 9, 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.North Data Center: N+1 data center in downtown Great Falls, Montana · North Data Center, LLC · retrieved October 8, 2026
- 2.PeeringDB facility 5794: North Data Center, LLC, 417 Central Ave Suite 328 · PeeringDB · retrieved October 8, 2026
- 3.North Data Center Great Falls, 417 Central Avenue · Inflect · retrieved October 8, 2026
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