A data center is being planned outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.
First reported by HometownSource, the advisory planning commission of Eagan unanimously voted to recommend approval of a preliminary subdivision of land near the YMCA for a data center development.
CLOP Eagan MN, LLC was requesting approval of a 22.1-acre acre subdivision of YMCA-owned greenfield land at 550 Opperman Drive for a single-story, 61,500 square foot (5,715 sqm), 5MW data center.
According to the council documents, Oppidan is involved in the company behind the project. The company aims to begin site work in June 2025, with full occupancy and operations by December 2026.
The land was first subdivided in the early 1990s, with the original YMCA building constructed in 1995.
Minnesota-based Oppidan is a property development firm. Its data center clients in the past have reportedly included Oracle, several unnamed telcos, Bell Canada brand Bell Alliant, and Sabey Corp.
It has been involved with projects in Memphis, Tennessee; an AWS project in California; and in 2022 acquired four plots in Santa Clara alongside Harrison Street set to be developed into a 50MW data center. It recently filed to build a 5MW facility in El Paso, Texas, and broke ground on a 90,000 sq ft (8,360 sqm) data center in Chicago, Illinois.
On its website, Oppidan now lists a subsidiary known as Connect Data Centers. On its website, the recently formed unit says it has delivered data centers totaling 650MW and 2.28 million sq ft across California, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas since 2016. It says it has a further 720MW and 2.96 million sq ft worth of projects in development across the US.
Connect is led by Drew Johnson, Oppidan’s SVP of development and data center lead.
DataBank operates a data center in Eagan, located south of Minneapolis in Dakota County. Digital Realty previously operated a data center in Eagan but exited and sold the site last year, with the local government set to build residential housing there.
