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Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections)
Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana · All 16 Sabey Data Centers sites
Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) is a cancelled data center in Butte, Montana (Silver Bow County), operated by Sabey Data Centers. The public record puts it at 50 MW planned, 600 acres.
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Facility record
Cancelled
- Operator
- Sabey Data Centers
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- German Gulch Rd & Rick Jones Way, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT
- Coordinates
- 45.9965, -112.6982 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 50 MW planned
- Land
- 600 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- NorthWestern Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- 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.
- February 2026ProposedLand purchase/sale agreement for a 606.5-acre parcel in the Montana Connections Industrial Park was still contingent on closing, with the deadline extended to Feb 11, 2026. Source: Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 8, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) in Butte, Silver Bow 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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Power and water
NorthWestern Energy was to supply 50 MW beginning in 2027, with expansion potential to 250 MW or more by 2029.
Notes on the record
Sabey withdrew/terminated its buy-sell agreement on 2026-05-13 after REC Silicon exercised a right of first refusal (dating to 1996) over part of the 606.5-acre Montana Connections parcel in April 2026. The project had planned an initial 50MW of power under a non-binding LOI with NorthWestern Energy for 2027, with scalability to 250MW+ by 2029; the higher figure is an aspirational scale-up target and is not recorded as capacity. Butte-Silver Bow officials said afterward they were working with Sabey to identify an alternative parcel within or adjacent to the same industrial park; no replacement site was confirmed in the sources checked as of 2026-09-13. The coordinate is a road-level OSM Nominatim geocode of German Gulch Road near the Ramsay/Ramsay-Butte area (Silver Bow County), not a confirmed parcel boundary.
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
- 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.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
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.
- Atlas Power Butte Data Center · Butte · Atlas Power10 mi · Operating · Mixed reception
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) in Butte?
Nothing on record as of October 8, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) in Butte, Silver Bow 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 Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections)?
No lawsuit over Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) 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 Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections) 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 Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections), and how big is it?
Sabey Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 16 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 50 MW. The site is recorded at 600 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Sabey Data Centers Butte Campus (Montana Connections)," updated October 8, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/sabey-butte-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/sabey-butte-mt, retrieved October 29, 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.Sabey: Butte, Montana Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved September 13, 2026
- 2.Power Drain: A guide to proposed data centers so far in Montana · Bozeman Daily Chronicle · retrieved September 13, 2026
- 3.Sabey DC acquires land for data center in Butte, Montana · BeBeez · retrieved October 8, 2026
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