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Google data center in Hermantown, Minnesota

Updated Nov 3, 2026Sources: Compute Atlas; Server Country; Kapwork Grow tracker

Announced Mar 3, 2026, in St. Louis County. No permit on record yet.

No permit on record yet. First seen Aug 15, 2026.

Where

Hermantown, St. Louis County, Minnesota.

Exact site not public. Shown at township level.

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HermantownSt. Louis County
Reported capacity
600MW
Planned, as Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) reports it. 1,800,000 square feet, per Kapwork Grow tracker. May be planned, not energised, capacity.
Work it brings
Electrical, mechanical, low-voltage, site, fiber
The trades a data center build hires, from the site work to the last mile of fiber.
Who bills here
Google
The operator, per Compute Atlas and Server Country. No public record names its general contractor yet. The carriers show here when a record names them.

  • Nearest other build

    Microsoft Becker Data Center

    125.3 miles away

  • Builds in St. Louis County

    1

    Published build in the Kapwork Grow tracker, this one included. Published Nov 3, 2026.

  • Builds in Minnesota

    26

    Proposed, approved, under construction or expanding, this one included. Kapwork Grow tracker, published Nov 3, 2026.

  • U.S. data center construction

    $84.95B a year

    August 2026, seasonally adjusted annual rate, preliminary. Up 73.2% from $49.05B in August 2025; 63.3% of private office construction. U.S. Census Bureau, C30, released Oct 1, 2026.

What this means for you

Same customers, bigger invoices.

The electrical, mechanical and fiber work on this campus bills Google, its GC and the carriers you already know. Certify the invoices behind it, and funders compete to fund them.

An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.

Who your invoice goes to

  • GoogleOperator
  • General contractorNot named yet
  • CarriersNot named yet
  • UtilityNot named yet

Key facts

Stage
ProposedCompute Atlas · Sep 18, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported capacity
600 MWServer Country · Sep 24, 2026
Reported building area
1,800,000 sq ftKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Site area
278 acresKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported investment
$1.2BKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Reported jobs
100Kapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Announced
Mar 3, 2026Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Construction start reported
2027Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Expected completion
2030Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location
Hermantown, St. Louis County, MinnesotaCompute Atlas · Sep 18, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Location precision
Street address reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Community response
Local opposition reportedKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Power source
Mixed sourcesKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Cooling
Air cooledKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Facility type
HyperscaleKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Incentives reported
Property Tax Abatement; Sales Tax Exemption; Infrastructure SupportKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026

What the public record lacks: the general contractor's name.

Who's involved

Operator
GoogleCompute Atlas · Sep 18, 2026; Server Country · Sep 24, 2026
Tenants
GoogleKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
Utility
Minnesota PowerKapwork Grow tracker · Nov 2, 2026
General contractor
Not named in a public record yet
Carriers
Appear here as the records name them

How far along it is

  1. · Server Country

    Reported as announced

  2. · Kapwork's date

    First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot)

  3. · Kapwork's date

    Stage proposed first seen by Kapwork

  4. · Server Country

    Construction start

  5. · Server Country

    Expected completion

  6. Date not reported · Server Country

    Expected completion reported

  7. Date not reported · Server Country

    Construction start reported

Dates as reported. Not a bid calendar. A planned date is not evidence that work occurred. Dates marked Kapwork's date come from the tracker's own snapshots, not from the sources.

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In Minnesota

All Minnesota data center builds

The Kapwork Grow tracker lists 26 published builds in Minnesota, as published Nov 3, 2026; these are the ones linked to this record.

Questions this page answers

Is Google Hermantown Data Center under construction?
No permit record shows it yet, so this page prints it as announced. Compute Atlas (Sep 18, 2026) and Server Country (Sep 24, 2026) report it as proposed.
Who is building Google Hermantown Data Center?
Google is the operator; the tenants reported are Google. No public record names the general contractor yet. It shows here the day one does.
When is Google Hermantown Data Center expected to finish?
Server Country reports expected completion in 2030. That is a reported target, not a schedule.
Which carriers serve Google Hermantown Data Center?
No public record names them yet. They show here when a filing does.
How do contractors on Google Hermantown Data Center get paid sooner?
The owner pays the general contractor, and the general contractor pays its subcontractors. Once your customer approves your invoice, certify it with Kapwork. Funders compete to fund it, so you don't wait for the payment date. Free for businesses. Kapwork doesn't lend and doesn't contact your customer.

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Sources, updates and data

Compute Atlas · Server Country · Kapwork Grow tracker · U.S. Census C30

Where this comes from

What each source reports

  • Compute Atlas: Proposed
  • Server Country: Proposed, 600 MW, as “Hermantown Data Center”

Updates

  • Date not reported: Construction start reported. Server Country
  • Date not reported: Expected completion reported. Server Country
  • 2030: Expected completion. Server Country
  • 2027: Construction start. Server Country
  • Between Aug 15, 2026 and Sep 23, 2026: Stage proposed first seen by Kapwork. Kapwork's date
  • Aug 15, 2026: First seen in the Kapwork Grow tracker (its first snapshot). Kapwork's date
  • Mar 3, 2026: Reported as announced. Server Country

Limitations and interpretation

  • This record is the Kapwork Grow tracker's merged view of a facility, from the tracker snapshot built 2026-11-02. Facts tagged KW are the tracker's resolved values; the per-source rows it was merged from are listed under Sources and on the tracker record.
  • Sources on this record: Compute Atlas: Kubiak, E. (2026). Compute Atlas [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22284476 (CC BY 4.0) · Server Country, https://servercountry.org/data/ (CC BY 4.0). Every source is licensed for commercial use with attribution.
  • An announced or permitted build is not a contract, an open bid or a purchase order.
  • Capacity figures are as reported by the cited sources and may describe planned rather than energised capacity.

“Not reported” means missing information, not zero. Completed and withdrawn records can remain available as historical records.

Nearest build: Haversine great-circle distance on the tracker latitude and longitude, in statute miles, rounded to 0.1. First-seen dates: first_seen: the earliest committed snapshot of data/dcfo.sqlite holding any of the facility's source keys (source:source_id), narrowed to the nightly run day by the alert sender's facility_new events when they are available. status_first_seen: the start of the unbroken run of snapshots, ending at this one, in which a facility sharing a source key had the current status, narrowed by the latest status_changed event to that status. Dates are Kapwork's, not the sources'.

What we don't know yet

  • The general contractor's name.
  • The carriers that serve the campus.
  • How the operator and its GC pay their contractors: portal, terms, days to pay.

Spot an error? Tell us

Cite: Kapwork Grow, “Google Hermantown Data Center”, https://kapwork.com/grow/directory/datacenters/google-hermantown-data-center-mn-dc_d5d58d87c2ca, materially updated Nov 3, 2026.

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