{"id":18570,"date":"2023-06-23T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T01:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/north-dakota-county-cuts-power-on-1-9b-data-center-project\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T18:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T01:33:59","slug":"north-dakota-county-cuts-power-on-1-9b-data-center-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/north-dakota-county-cuts-power-on-1-9b-data-center-project\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota county cuts power on $1.9B data center project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>A $1.9 billion data center project in Williams County, North Dakota, hit a construction roadblock when the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5avp5Quh_-8&amp;t=454s\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>county commission unanimously voted Tuesday<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> to cut the power on the site.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Mountrail-Williams Electric Co-op, however, will not comply with orders from the Williams County commission to disconnect the power on phase two of the project, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/kfgo.com\/2023\/06\/21\/electric-co-op-refuses-williams-co-order-to-shut-off-crypto-mine-power\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>KFGO reported<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>. Instead, the electric utility company filed a petition for declaratory judgment, asking a court to clarify the rights and responsibilities of all parties involved in the dispute.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Atlas Power, a Butte, Montana-based data center operator, will own and operate the data center, while FX Solutions, another Montana-based company, is leading construction of the project. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The vote to shut off power follows several failures to meet building codes and zoning ordinances, according to the county commission meeting. Issues with final inspections, a buffer strip that hasn\u2019t been completed and sound level complaints pushed the county commission to vote a pause on the Atlas Power data center project.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Total fines resulting from the violations have reached about $224,000, which the building team would need to pay in order to move forward with construction.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Dubi Cummings, spokesperson for <span>Mountrail-Williams<\/span> Electric Co-op, said the electric utility company is in the process of seeking the court\u2019s determination on next steps. Neither FX Solutions nor Atlas Power could be reached for comment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>States across the nation are looking to take advantage of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/richard-branch-starts-dodge-construction-q-a\/648646\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>data center construction boom<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>, offering attractive tax incentive packages to lure projects to their area.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>For example, North Dakota offers a sales tax exemption on IT equipment and computer software. A couple other attractive factors for data center operations include the state\u2019s affordable power supply and its climate that lowers cooling costs, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.nd.gov\/news\/burgum-one-worlds-largest-data-centers-locate-williston-area-industry-targets-growth-nd\" target=\"_blank\">according to North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Amazon recently announced plans to demolish nine Virginia office buildings to make way for four data center facilities, according to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/amazon-demolishing-9-offices-data-center\/652748\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>land applications<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> in Loudoun County, Virginia. Google broke ground last month on two data center projects in central Ohio. Elsewhere, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/microsoft-plans-billion-wisconsin-data-center-campus\/646352\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Microsoft announced plans<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> to build a $1 billion, 315-acre data center campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/north-dakota-county-cuts-power-19-billion-data-center-project-fx-solutions-atlas-power\/653772\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Dive Brief: A $1.9 billion data center project in Williams County, North Dakota, hit a construction roadblock when the &#8230; <a title=\"North Dakota county cuts power on $1.9B data center project\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/north-dakota-county-cuts-power-on-1-9b-data-center-project\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about North Dakota county cuts power on $1.9B data center project\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-dive","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}