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Montana / MT

Montana data center and compute infrastructure research

This state has reviewed research coverage from the national 50-state Atlas. Exact project locations are published only after source evidence establishes coordinates; state-level, regulatory, utility and prospective evidence remains visible without inventing map precision.

3reviewed research rows
0confirmed rows
3accepted prospective rows
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State research coverage

Montana is part of the 50-state research coverage.

The current reviewed research set contains 3 accepted evidence records for Montana, including 0 confirmed and 3 accepted prospective rows, with a research cutoff of 2026-08-20. These are evidence records, not a count of unique facilities.

Prospective records remain labeled as proposals, applications, forecasts, targets, queue entries or other non-operational states. The Atlas does not convert state-level or locality evidence into a precise project point unless a controlling source supports that location.

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Evidence-backed project locations

Montana project points

Source-exact records use supported coordinates. Dashed rings mark Census address-range geocodes, not rooftop or surveyed coordinates. Qualified research candidates are shown separately at Census locality or county centroids when that is the strongest source-backed geography; those markers do not claim a precise site coordinate.

0 mapped locations
No project in this state currently has coordinates strong enough to plot. The state evidence below remains available while location proof is compiled.
Documented project / site inventory

4 project, facility, campus or documented site records are tracked for MT.

This project layer combines available project-profile, permit/intent and civic-impact evidence. Records retain unresolved location precision and limitations rather than inventing coordinates.

proposed or review locality

Big Sky Campus

Yellowstone County, north of Billings · MT

Operator / developer: Big Sky Digital Infrastructure (Quantica Infrastructure)

Documented capacity: 500 MW

6 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

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Public records and supporting context

Development context

These dated decisions, filings, research collections and supporting-infrastructure records provide context. They are not additional data-center facilities.

Public agency starting point

City of Billings Planning Division

Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana

Contact about: Could you identify public planning commission materials, adopted land-use plans and current development-review files?

planning@billingsmt.gov

Source status: historical org page evidence. Verify the linked public source before relying on an assignment because staff and routing can change.

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MT data-center research sources

This record is a regional research collection or market overview. It is not an individual data-center facility.

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State completion checkpoint · 2026-10-06

Montana research pass: complete verified

This state completion snapshot summarizes source-backed research. It does not add map points, treat the two licensed discovery rows as a statewide census, convert address-held current operations into strict physical facilities, revive withdrawn projects, or convert planned utility-service values into operating IT load.

6strict operating physical facilities / campuses
2active buildout / proposed projects
2licensed discovery rows preserved separately
0completion-queue items unresolved
Current active pipeline
Proposed / environmental and utility review

Quantica Big Sky Campus

Approximately 3.5 miles southeast of Broadview, Yellowstone County

Operator / developer: Quantica Infrastructure

Scope: NorthWestern and DEQ sources describe planned large-load service and campus development; planned utility values are not operating IT load.

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Current operation with expansion under evaluation

Hyperscale Data / BNI Montana expansion

Montana site geography held in public completion layer

Operator / developer: Hyperscale Data / BNI Montana

Published / planned capacity: 125 MW

Scope: Potential Site 1 expansion supported by company material; Site 1 currently has 10 MW energized and active. 125 MW is potential future site capacity, not current operating load.

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Operating-source reconciliation and publication controls

Strict operating source coverage

  • Vision Net: 5 strict physical records
  • Parsec Data Management: 1 strict physical record

Controls retained

  • Vision Net's current portfolio statement supports five Montana physical data-center facilities; those are counted as five strict records.
  • Parsec's current Billings Tier 3 facility is counted once as a strict physical record.
  • Hyperscale Data/BNI Montana is kept qualified because current public company material confirms energized operation but not sufficiently precise public site geography for strict physical publication.
  • Atlas Power and Big Horn/Beowulf remain qualified/current-context records pending current public operator/site reconciliation.
  • The former Sabey Butte site and Krambu Bonner proposal are not counted as active projects after withdrawal/termination evidence.
  • The two licensed Montana discovery rows remain separate from strict canonical counts.
  • Quantica planned utility-service values are never described as current operating IT load.
Current policy and regulatory context (8)
State contact routing

Where to start in Montana

Current source-backed route

Little Big Horn College

Contact about: Place-based community learning and source-aware infrastructure information.

This route was retained from current or recently revalidated public-source evidence.

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