ASK YOUR LEGISLATORS & THE GOVERNOR FOR A HYPERSCALE DATA CENTER MORATORIUM

21 Hyperscale Data Center projects have been proposed across Minnesota. If you're concerned about their impact, now is the time to contact your legislators.

Minnesota needs to put a pause on hyperscale data center development until a regulatory framework is established to:

 

• Protect our water, land, and the areas around the data centers
• Ensure communities have access to important information about development projects
• Prevent climate-change driving emissions and other pollution by requiring that data centers are powered by 100% new solar and wind from the start.

It's really important to let elected officials know you are concerned about the data center explosion across the country and Minnesota's approach.

Some of our many concerns about these hyperscale data centers:

 

• TAX BREAKS: Giving away hundreds of millions in tax breaks to billionaire tech companies and their CEO's who are the richest people in the world.
  • NEW Feb '26: Georgia estimates $2.5 billion in losses to data center tax breaks in a single year
  • Cloudy with a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers are Endangering State Budgets
• Insufficient regulation around water and land use
• Inappropriate (and not legal) use of non-disclosure agreements which is keeping communities in the dark about what is happening
• Energy to power data centers will increase the emissions that are driving climate change when we must be on a path of continually reducing those emissions to zero - eventually getting to carbon free energy doesn't help if they emit more until then.

 

Solutions We Need:

If we build data centers in Minnesota, they should be good neighbors:

 

• A ban on non-disclosure agreements
• A repeal of tax breaks for the richest companies in the world
• A commitment to 100% new clean energy from the start
• A requirement for environmental review and individual water permits

 

Please send a message to your legislators and the governor today!