ABOUT
Sioux Falls Technology Park
The Sioux Falls Technology Park is being planned as a thoughtfully designed technology campus that supports essential digital services while being a responsible and respectful neighbor to the community. From the start, the project has emphasized careful planning, transparency, and long-term compatibility with the surrounding area.
Data centers are critical infrastructure that support services residents rely on every day, including health care systems, financial services, emergency response, education, communications, and local businesses. Once operational, they are quiet and predictable facilities with minimal daily traffic and limited on-site activity.
Our goal is to deliver meaningful local benefits, including well-paying jobs and long-term tax revenue, while minimizing impacts through modern design and close coordination with the City of Sioux Falls and local stakeholders.
We are committed to listening, clear communication, and ongoing engagement as the project moves forward, with the objective of being a responsible, long-term partner in Sioux Falls that supports economic growth, generates durable tax revenue, and strengthens the region’s role in the modern economy.
FAST FACTS
Water Use
A fully built 500-megawatt campus using modern closed-loop cooling would use about the same amount of water as two commercial car washes. Modern data centers typically use less water per square foot than hospitals, hotels, or manufacturing facilities, and water is continuously reused rather than consumed.
Power
The site is located immediately adjacent to Xcel Energy’s Split Rock Substation, allowing power to be delivered without building long-distance transmission lines. Data centers operate under commercial power contracts that are separate from residential electric rates. These projects fund their own electrical infrastructure, such as substations and transmission upgrades, and are planned through long-term utility processes designed to protect existing customers.
Jobs
Construction supports hundreds of skilled trade jobs, with similar data center campuses supporting more than 1,000 jobs over multiple phases. Once operational, the campus supports hundreds of well-paying, long-term jobs in operations, maintenance, security, and technical services. For every direct job in the data center industry, an average of 7.4 ancillary jobs are created in the broader economy.
Tax Revenue
At full build-out, the project is expected to generate millions of dollars annually in ongoing property tax revenue supporting the City of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, and local school districts.
Neighborhood Impact
Data centers operate quietly, generate minimal daily traffic, and do not produce emissions during normal operations.
WHY SIOUX
FALLS?
Sioux Falls is a growing regional hub with reliable infrastructure and increasing demand for digital services. As more businesses, hospitals, schools, and consumers rely on cloud computing and secure data storage, additional data center capacity is needed to support that growth.
The proposed site aligns well with the City’s long-term industrial planning and existing utility infrastructure. Compared to many other industrial uses that could be developed on this land, a data center campus results in significantly less daily traffic, noise, and disruption, while providing higher and more stable tax revenue for the City of Sioux Falls.
COMMUNITY BENEFITS
Jobs
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Hundreds of skilled construction and trade jobs during development
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More than 250 permanent, well-paying jobs with an average salary of approximately $100,000
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Many roles available to workers with a high school diploma or associate’s degree
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Long-term career paths in operations, maintenance, IT, and facilities management
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Each direct data center job supports additional indirect jobs across the local economy
Tax Revenue
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Significant long-term tax revenue for the City of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, and local school districts
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Stable revenue generated over decades rather than short-term spikes
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Funds that can be used for education, emergency services, infrastructure, and other community priorities
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Higher tax contribution with fewer ongoing public service demands compared to many other industrial uses
ARE DATA CENTERS GOOD COMMUNITY NEIGHBORS?
YES! Modern data centers are designed to be good neighbors. They generate very limited daily traffic, operate quietly, and include setbacks and landscaping that help them blend into the surrounding area. Advanced technology allows these facilities to function with minimal visibility and disruption to the community.
DATA CENTERS
in Our Daily Lives
Data centers are secure facilities that power the digital services people rely on every day. Much like roads, water systems, and electric utilities, they are essential infrastructure that helps keep modern life running smoothly.
Data centers support critical services such as health care, emergency response, banking, education, government systems, transportation, and communications. Everyday activities like using a smartphone, making a video call, streaming movies and TV shows, shopping online, navigating with GPS, or accessing cloud storage all depend on data centers operating reliably behind the scenes.
The Gemini Data Center in Sioux Falls would help support the growing digital needs of the region while strengthening the infrastructure that residents and businesses depend on daily.
WHO IS GEMINI?
Gemini is a private family office and long-term real estate and infrastructure developer focused on responsibly developing large-scale projects that support essential services and economic growth. Gemini’s role is to plan, entitle, and develop master-planned technology and infrastructure campuses that align with local planning goals and community needs.
Gemini does not operate consumer-facing technology platforms and does not create demand for digital services. The demand for data centers is driven by the growth of cloud computing, health care systems, financial services, education, government operations, and everyday digital use. Gemini’s role is to responsibly deliver the infrastructure needed to support that existing demand.
The Gemini team brings extensive experience in real estate development, energy infrastructure, and large-scale project execution. Gemini works closely with utilities, municipalities, engineers, and future operators to ensure projects are thoughtfully planned, well regulated, and delivered with long-term accountability.
Gemini is committed to transparency, follow-through, and being a responsible long-term partner in the communities where it develops.