Gemini Data Center (Sioux Falls, SD)
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, SD
Gemini Data Center (Sioux Falls, SD) is a planned data center in Sioux Falls, SD, with Gemini Data Center SD, LLC named as the developer. Reported capacity is 500 MW. Proposed hyperscale data center on a ~160-acre parcel (145.6 acres rezoned) between Sioux Falls and Brandon, SD, near Veterans Parkway and Rice Street, northeast Sioux Falls. Reported capacity ~500MW. City had approved annexation in Oct 2025; City Council unanimously (7-0) approved rezoning from agricultural to light industrial on Jan 7 2026 after ~4 hours of public comment, mostly opposed (a later petition drive to force a referendum on the zoning failed). End-use tenant/hyperscaler behind Gemini Data Center SD LLC not disclosed in source. Facility restricted to domestic-only water use from the city (not cooling); developer says it plans a closed-loop cooling system but has not fully committed. Rezoning approval does not guarantee development -- still requires site plan approval and building permits.
- 500 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
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South Dakota state legislation
- HB3397 - Data center service classification requirementDefines terms and requires the Corporation Commission to classify data center service.Download
- HB1038 - PUC cost assessment authority over data centersAllows the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers.Download
- SB939 - AI/Data Center Regulatory Sandbox ProgramCreates an Office of Transformation and Opportunity regulatory sandbox program with permits for high-impact data centers.Download
- SF3968 - Data centers provisions modificationModifies existing statutory provisions on data centers.Download
- SB0318 - Data Center Non Disclosure AmendmentsAmends rules on nondisclosure agreements related to data centers.Download
- S0724 - Commercial Data Center Water Usage ReportRequires water usage reporting from commercial data centers.Download
- SB232 - Impose a one-year moratorium on the construction or expansion of hyperscale data centers.Description comingDownload
- HB1301 - Limit costs and risks associated with electricity use by data centers and impose a moratorium.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- Gemini Data Center SD, LLC
- County
- Minnehaha County, SD
- Capacity
- 500 MW
- Address
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Stage
- Planned
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