Scope
Minnesota Statutes, section 216B.72, requires the commissioner to collect an annual fee from a qualified large-scale data center, on a schedule the commissioner prescribes, deposited in the energy and conservation account in section 216B.241, subdivision 2a. The fee is based on the qualified large-scale data center's peak demand that the utility arranges to serve, reflecting its peak demand forecast provided to the utility: $2,000,000 for 100 to 250 MW; $3,000,000 above 250 MW but below 500 MW; $4,000,000 for 500 MW but below 750 MW; and $5,000,000 for 750 MW or greater. Fee data collected under the section are nonpublic data.
- Geographic scope
- Minnesota
- Jurisdiction
- State
- Authority type
- Legislature
- Issuing authority
- Minnesota Legislature
Dates
- Adopted
- 14 June 2025
- Effective
- 15 June 2025
- Scheduled expiration
- None scheduled
- Ended
- Not recorded as ended
- Completion condition
- None stated
- Source document
- The source page states no document date
- Last checked
- 23 September 2026 (earlier than tracker date 5 October 2026; not an automatic status change)
Summary
Minnesota Statutes section 216B.72, added by the 2025 data center act, requires an annual fee from each qualified large-scale data center, tiered by the peak demand its utility arranges to serve: $2 million for 100 to 250 MW, $3 million above 250 MW but below 500 MW, $4 million for 500 MW but below 750 MW, and $5 million for 750 MW or more. Fees go to the energy and conservation account and fee data are nonpublic. The section took effect on 15 June 2025.
What this does not establish
- The statute says 'the commissioner'; this record does not quote the chapter 216B definition of that term.
- 'Qualified large-scale data center' is a term defined for the sales-tax exemption in section 297A.68, subdivision 42; this record does not restate that definition.
- The primary source is the current Revisor section page; its effective date comes from the enacting session law (Laws 2025, First Special Session, chapter 12, section 16), which is tracked as a separate linked record.
- The record does not establish which facilities, if any, have paid the fee or the amounts collected; fee data are nonpublic under the section.
Unresolved questions
- The fee schedule the commissioner prescribes and any implementing guidance were not found in the opened sources.
Relationships
Supersession means a later instrument replaces the earlier legal effect. Repeal links identify the repeal instrument and the measure it ends. A later implementation or related letter is not treated as a replacement unless the record says so.
- Related, not a replacement 2025 data center act (H.F. 16) (In effect)
Sources
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/216B.72
- Laws 2025, 1st Spec. Sess., chapter 12 (enacting law) enacting session law and effective-date clause · 14 June 2025