Coal Creek Data Center Park (Rainbow Energy)
Rainbow Energy Center · Underwood, ND · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 47.377, -101.157
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
McLean County rezoned ~800 acres next to Coal Creek Station from agricultural to commercial in June 2025. Rainbow's plans for the area include data centers with "as much as 300 megawatts of electricity demand" (Bismarck Tribune, July 2025); that is a ceiling on demand, not a firm capacity, so no capacity figure is recorded. No tenant or specific project had been announced. This record is the planned park, not the existing 200-megawatt data center that Rainbow already powers at the plant per the same article, which is deliberately not recorded here. Coordinates are approximate, near Coal Creek Station.
Would source power directly from Rainbow's 1,151 MW Coal Creek Station (lignite). Rainbow is also considering gas-fired generation for the park.
Sources and provenance
- Coal Creek owner plans to power North Dakota data center park · source retrieved 2026-10-26
- North Dakota's largest coal plant could power data centers, industrial complex · source retrieved 2026-10-26
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.