Data Center Registry
Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus
Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana
Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus is a proposed data center in Billings, Montana (Yellowstone County), operated by Quantica Infrastructure. The public record puts it at announced August 2025, 1 GW planned, 5,000 acres. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Quantica Infrastructure
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use confirmed
- Location
- Billings, Yellowstone County, MT
- Coordinates
- 45.8230, -108.7000
- Power capacity
- 1 GW planned
- Land
- 5,000 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- August 2025
- Utility
- NorthWestern Energy
- Power source
- Mixed
- 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
- Mixed reception
- 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.
- May 2026ProposedQuantica filed interconnection applications with NorthWestern Energy for 1,100 MW at Big Sky Campus Source: Data Center Dynamics
- August 2025ProposedBig Sky Digital Infrastructure (BSDI) announced by EnCap-backed Quantica Infrastructure; 5,000-acre Yellowstone County campus north of Billings Source: Quantica Infrastructure
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus in Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Montana energy task force studying data center impacts; NorthWestern Energy's statewide Montana load is ~760 MW total.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Montana energy task force studying data center impacts; NorthWestern Energy's statewide Montana load is ~760 MW total. Multiple proposed MT data centers collectively seeking 1,400 MW more. Northern Plains Resource Council tracking grid and water concerns.
Power and water
Phase 1: 500 MW renewable + battery storage by 2030. Phase 2: additional 500 MW by 2031. 40,000 acres under lease for solar, wind, battery development. Grid power from NorthWestern Energy.
Notes on the record
5,100-acre site in Yellowstone County between Broadview and Billings ('north of Billings'). Shovel-ready powered land; grid power expected 2027. Interconnection application filed May 2026 for 1,100 MW. Backed by EnCap Investments (~$2.7B under management). Construction planned to begin 2026. Coordinates approximate between Billings and Broadview.
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
- Permanent jobs promised
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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus in Billings?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus in Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Montana energy task force studying data center impacts; NorthWestern Energy's statewide Montana load is ~760 MW total.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus?
No lawsuit over Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus appears in the record we track as of July 6, 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 Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus use?
No water withdrawal figure for Big Sky Digital Infrastructure 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 Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus, and how big is it?
Quantica Infrastructure is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 1 GW. The site is recorded at 5000 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Big Sky Digital Infrastructure Campus," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/quantica-bsdi-billings-mt.
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/quantica-bsdi-billings-mt, 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.EnCap-backed Quantica Details Plans for 1GW Campus in Montana · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026
- 2.Quantica Introduces Big Sky Digital Infrastructure as Its Flagship Montana Platform · Quantica Infrastructure · retrieved July 6, 2026
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