Wyoming-based data center developer Teton Digital has been given the go-ahead for a 100MW data center development in North Dakota.
The project has been dubbed Project Trinity and will be located eight miles south of Tioga on 25 acres of an 80-acre parcel in Dry Fork Township.
Williams County Commissioners gave Teton Digital the green light to apply for a conditional use permit, as reported by KFYR TV.
At the Board of County Commissioners meeting on February 18, Teto Digital said Project Trinity would be built in two phases. The first phase will see 30MW go live by Q3/Q4 2025, using currently available power from an adjacent substation.
The second phase will see the build-out of a 100MW+ substation in coordination with local utility MWEC and the completion of the 100MW colocation facility by the end of 2026.
The commissioners said the data center firm must take into account the residents of the townships, who voiced concerns about noise pollution at the meeting.
“There should not be a lot of discontent. If you make your neighbors happy, then it should be a good project. That’s all I ask through this process is to make sure those neighbors are taken care of,” said Beau Anderson, county commissioner.
There is limited information available online about Teton Digital, but its website says the company builds large data center developments, stranded energy data centers, and offers other data center services, including colocations services.
In the Board of Commissioners hearing, the company said it is the parent company to Scate Ventures, which operates a 20MW site in Washington state and is the consultant to multiple sites across the US and Canada. Teton Digital is headed up by CEO Scott Bennett and chairman Gregg Bennett.
North Dakota does not have a large data center market, with Data Center Map listing only seven facilities in the state. Despite this, it saw the highest relative growth in electricity demand caused by data centers - 37 percent in four years - according to a July 2024 report from the Energy Information Administration.
In September, DCD reported that two companies are seeking to develop $125 billion of AI data centers in North Dakota, with one of them rumored to be Microsoft. Applied Digital closed $375 million in financing for its Ellendale campus in the state earlier this month.
Also in Dry Fork Township, Enerfore received the go-ahead for a cryptomining facility at the end of last year.
