Data Center Signal is tracking 5 clips about Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners data center developments across 2 states, including WA, MN.
A panel of judges sided with the Yakama Nation and environmental groups in an appeal regarding the water quality permit for the Goldendale Energy Storage Project. The ruling requires the state to rewrite the permit to include monitoring and reporting for tunnel leakage. A data center is also planned on the same site.
Southeast Minnesota is preparing for future power demands driven by population growth and the state's clean electricity mandate, with projects like solar farms, battery storage, and transmission lines underway. The significant power needs of a planned Google data center in Pine Island are a major factor, leading to local opposition over infrastructure costs and energy usage.
Members of the Yakama Nation are protesting a proposed pumped-hydro energy storage project near Goldendale, Washington, arguing it will be built on a sacred tribal site with significant environmental impacts. They claim the project, owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, is primarily intended to power a large data center campus, specifically naming STACK Infrastructure, despite developers' public statements about residential power needs. Nonprofits are challenging the project in federal court following state and federal permit approvals.
The Yakama Nation and Columbia Riverkeeper are actively opposing the Goldendale Energy Storage Project and an associated data center in Klickitat County, Washington, citing environmental and cultural impacts. Despite this, the energy project recently received a necessary 40-year hydroelectric license from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Opponents have filed lawsuits challenging federal and state permits for the project.
The Yakama Nation and its allies are actively fighting a $3.3 billion renewable energy project in Goldendale, Washington, on a sacred site along the Columbia River. New information reveals the energy project, which was approved by the Trump administration, is intended to power a massive hyperscale data center campus planned by STACK Infrastructure and Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure. Washington’s Ecology Department is currently reviewing cleanup documents related to the proposed data center.