Montana
DataCentersExposed tracks 4 AI data centers in Montana — 1 operating and 2 in the pipeline — across 3 counties, drawing 0 MW of reported power demand from 0 tracked corporate operators.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
DataCentersExposed tracks 4 data centers in Montana — 1 operating and 2 proposed. Capacity figures are still being sourced for Montana; where a facility's megawattage is on the public record, it appears on that facility's page.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
Montana at a glance
Geographically, the buildout clusters: Yellowstone County leads Montana with 2 facilities and a composite risk score of 4/100. Custer County and Richland County follow. Our county risk score weights project exposure (40%), power demand (30%), water draw (15%), and land footprint (15%); the full breakdown is shown on each county page.
Montana is not done growing. 2 facilities are in the pipeline — proposed, permitted, or under construction — which is where residents still have a say at zoning hearings and in rate cases. Each pending project is a decision about land, water, electricity prices, and tax revenue that hasn't been finalized.
We also surface the accountability trail: 4 state bills mentioning data centers and 6 recent news items are tracked for Montana below, pulled from LegiScan and GDELT and refreshed automatically. Legislation is linked to the counties and operators it names; news is classified by community sentiment.
County risk leaderboard
| County | Facilities | Pipeline | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yellowstone County | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Custer County | 1 | — | 4 |
| Richland County | 1 | 1 | — |
Pipeline & proposals
All tracked facilities
| Facility | Operator | Status | County | MW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadview Data Center | — | Proposed | Yellowstone | — |
| Richland County Data Center | — | Proposed | Richland | — |
| Parsec Data Management | — | Yellowstone | — | |
| State of Montana Data Center | — | Mapped (unverified) | Custer | — |