5MW facility due live next year
US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company has started work on a new data center outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. The project is expected to be completed in 2026.
Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant.
“This is a demonstration of our financial strength and commitment to data center development and long-term partnership with the Eagan community,” said Dave Scott, Oppidan president and general counsel. “We are proud to invest in this region, to help bring high-paying skilled jobs, grow local tax revenue, and strengthen Minnesota’s standing as a competitive player in the data center sector.”
Oppidan filed to develop the data center late last year, and gained approval for the development earlier in 2025. The company had previously filed to develop 5MW facility on 22.1 acres at 550 Opperman Drive. The site was previously undeveloped land owned by the neighboring YMCA.
Partners include the City of Eagan, Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), Dakota County, Greater MSP, Dakota Electric Association, and Great River Energy.
Gardner Builders is the general contractor for the project; ERA Associates is the structural engineer; Stantec, the civil engineer; Salas O’Brien, the architect; and States Manufacturing, the electric equipment supplier.
Minnesota-based Oppidan is a property development firm. The company said it has been developing data centers since 2016. Data center clients in the past have reportedly included Oracle, several unnamed telcos, Bell Canada brand Bell Alliant, and Sabey Corp.
It has been involved with projects in Memphis, Tennessee; an AWS project in California; and, in 2022, acquired four plots in Santa Clara alongside Harrison Street set to be developed into a 50MW data center.
The company has been busy on numerous smaller projects across the US in the last year. Oppidan recently filed to build a 5MW facility in El Paso, Texas, and broke ground on a 90,000 sq ft (8,360 sqm) data center in Chicago, Illinois. It also has projects in Apple Valley, Minnesota; Reno, Nevada; Temple, Texas; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
On its website, Oppidan lists a subsidiary known as Connect Data Centers. The recently formed unit says it has delivered data centers totaling 650MW and 2.28 million sq ft (211,819 sqm) across California, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas since 2016. It says it has a further 720MW and 2.96 million sq ft (274,993 sqm) worth of projects in development across the US.
