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Tract Farmington Technology Park

Tract Farmington Technology Park

Permitted
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Minnesota (Xcel / MISO)

343-acre former Fountain Valley Golf Course, Farmington, Dakota County, MN. Up to 12 buildings, >2.5M sq ft, ~$5B buildings+infra. Tract (Cologix founder). Site work 2026.

Capacity
—
GPUs (est.)
—
Capex
—
Announced
—
Target operational
—

Delivery health score

61.2 /100
61.2/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

85 /100
85/100

Regulatory

51 /100
51/100

Infrastructure

70 /100
70/100

Capital

40 /100
40/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital baseline 40 Tract Farmington Technology Park No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Tract Farmington Technology Park No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory baseline 70 Tract Farmington Technology Park No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Regulatory permit granted +6 Utility Approval Permitting milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on 2024-11-18.
Regulatory staleness decay -25 Tract Farmington Technology Park Newest regulatory evidence is 2024-11-18 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Schedule baseline 80 Tract Farmington Technology Park No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Utility Approval Milestone "Utility Approval" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2024-11-18).

Milestones

  1. Utility Approval

    Achieved

    Utility approval · Actual:

  2. Groundbreaking

    Expected
    1 revision

    Groundbreaking · Expected:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
Tract
Developer
— —

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. E2
    City of Farmington MN - Data Center (Farmington Technology Park)

    City of Farmington MN · backs: actual date, status

    https://www.farmingtonmn.gov/473/Data-Center-Farmington-Technology-Park

  2. E2
    Tract - Farmington Technology Park project updates (mnlcofarmington.com, developer's own project site)

    Tract · backs: expected date

    https://www.mnlcofarmington.com/updates/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. E3
    Blandin on Broadband - $5 billion data center park in Farmington moves forward

    · Blandin on Broadband · relevance 0.85

  2. E4
    Data Center Dynamics - Tract plans 343-acre data center park outside Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Data Center Dynamics · relevance 0.90

  3. E2
    City of Farmington MN - Data Center (Farmington Technology Park)

    City of Farmington MN · relevance 0.50

  4. E3
    Sun ThisWeek (hometownsource.com) - Tract speaks about updated Farmington Technology Park

    Sun ThisWeek (hometownsource.com) · relevance 0.20