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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Apple Valley Technology Park (Oppidan/Rockport).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Oppidan Investment Company
- Address and locality
- Apple Valley · Dakota County · Minnesota · 55124
- Official metro area
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
- Source-reported status
- cancelled
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 24 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001090
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Land area
- 134 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 200 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: opposed
Provider notes
Community. City council unanimously rejected the project 2026-03-26, following the planning commission's denial recommendation, citing conflicts with the city's Comprehensive Plan and inability to fund required water-treatment expansion.
What the source record says
Five-building, ~1.05M sq ft campus proposed on the former Fischer Aggregate/AVR sand-and-gravel site (Orchard Place) southwest of County Road 42 and Pilot Knob Road; developer claimed ~$1.08B construction-phase GDP contribution. Denial was final after the developer's extension expired 2026-03-31.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Apple Valley continues to deny data center use · Sun Thisweek / Hometown Source
- Apple Valley Planning Commission Recommends Denial of Proposed Data Center Project
- Apple Valley Just Killed a 1-Million-Sq-Ft Data Center · South Metro Scoop
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID oppidan-apple-valley-technology-park-mn. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001090
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Apple Valley, MN 55124 · Dakota (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Oppidan Investment Company
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported cancelled
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 134 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 200 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: opposed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-24
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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