Mountain Lake
BrownfieldMountain Lake, Cottonwood, Minnesota · City of Mountain Lake - (MN)
Mountain Lake is a oil plant in Mountain Lake, Cottonwood, Minnesota, retired 2023-01-01. Retired generation sites are among the most attractive datacenter redevelopment targets: the existing interconnection was sized for roughly 2 MW of generation, so the grid hookup, transmission rights, and often cooling-water access are already in place — collapsing the speed-to-power timeline versus a greenfield build.
Former use & capacity
Grid hookup & remediation
Site conditions & market — Cottonwood County
County-level intelligence for this site's location — the power economics, water, hazard, connectivity, and workforce a developer screens before ever visiting. Assembled from FEMA NRI, BLS QCEW, FCC BDC, USGS water-use, and EIA.
Market & workforce
Power economics & interconnection
Water & cooling
Hazard, flood & connectivity
County-level context — address-level utility offerings and flood zoning vary within the county. Confirm site-specific service with the utility and a Phase I ESA.
Nearby brownfield & retired-generation sites
A proximity screen of other retired-plant, contaminated, and EPA-flagged sites near Mountain Lake — the environmental neighborhood, ranked by legacy grid capacity.
| Site | Former use | Legacy MW | Distance | Cleanup status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Lake | natural gas plant | 133 | 21.9 mi | — |
| Springfield (MN) | natural gas plant | 4 | 20.7 mi | — |
| Windom | oil plant | 3 | 9.9 mi | — |
| Sleepy Eye | oil plant | 2 | 27.0 mi | — |
| Lakefield Utilities | oil plant | 1 | 21.6 mi | — |
Derived from GridCensus's retired-generator & EPA brownfield dataset. Not a substitute for an ASTM E1527 Phase I environmental radius report.
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Nearby datacenter candidate sites
Scored candidate sites near Mountain Lake, ranked by DC Readiness.
| Site | Type | State | County | Voltage | Capacity | Queue wait | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN129832 | Substation-Adjacent | MN | Jackson County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 2.8 yrs | 62.9 |
| UNKNOWN173521 | Substation-Adjacent | MN | Watonwan County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 2.8 yrs | 61.8 |
| TAP138022 | Substation-Adjacent | MN | Watonwan County | 345 kV | 600 MW | 2.8 yrs | 61.7 |
| EC Near Springfield (MN) | Greenfield | MN | Brown | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 59.5 |
| OZ Jackson | Greenfield | MN | Jackson | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 59.4 |
| EC Near Windom | Greenfield | MN | Cottonwood | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 59.3 |
| EC Near Fairmont (MN) | Greenfield | MN | Martin | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 59.3 |
| EC Near Sleepy Eye | Greenfield | MN | Brown | — | — | 1.4 yrs | 59.3 |
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Dataset updated . Screening estimates derived from public data sources.
Brownfield attributes are derived from EIA retired-generator and EPA public data. Existing capacity reflects the retired plant's historical nameplate, not deliverable interconnection for a new load. Confirm reusable interconnection rights, remediation status, and site availability with the utility, ISO, and current owner.
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