Media Monitoring lead with high location confidence. Use the linked sources to verify status, public money, NDA/secrecy, water, and power details before treating this as a fully documented local record.
Reported project context; confirm whether any MW figure is requested, approved, energized, IT load, generation, or ultimate buildout before comparing it with another record.Capacity reading: Project-scale context · MW type not established · Proposed floor area · Site area · Target online date
Compute Workload
This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.
Undisclosed / unknownUnknown
The Butte-Silver Bow project committee describes Sabey's proposed campus and says site due diligence and power negotiations were ongoing; the committee's current project page records a six-month purchase-agreement extension granted February 11, 2026. April 2026 county records document a committee-reported site visit, and NorthWestern Energy's July 2026 SEC-filed presentation lists Sabey's 50 MW study load ramping to 200 MW under a development agreement. These are status and utility/project context rather than a workload allocation. The reviewed public materials do not identify a tenant, facility workload, hardware or training/inference split.
Sabey is the disclosed developer; the committee's February 11 extension notice, initial 50 MW and potential 200 MW figures, and NorthWestern's 50 MW-to-200 MW study-load entry are development or utility context, not workload capacity. The April 2026 site-visit report is operational context about another Sabey facility, not evidence about this proposed campus. Preserve the due-diligence/development-agreement status and keep customer, operator workload, hardware and allocation unknown.
Source review September 9, 2026: the official Butte project page does not disclose a water source, cooling method, withdrawal permit, wastewater capacity, or operating-use quantity. Those remain unresolved during due diligence.
Source review September 9, 2026: Butte-Silver Bow's project page says Sabey is evaluating an initial 50 MW of NorthWestern Energy service with an expected scale-up to 200 MW, while the site remains in due diligence and power terms are still being negotiated. These are proposed utility-service figures, not energized or data-center IT-load capacity; the dataset's 50-250 MW range remains unreconciled.
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