Google Project Skyway data center campus (Pine Island Industrial PUD, Pine Island, Minnesota)

Google Project Skyway — proposed data-center campus on the Pine Island Industrial PUD site with four Google-owned substations (PUC route-permit docket E002/TL-26-135)

Announced last observed as of 2026-08-31 · Project announcement

The bulletin sent on 8 September 2026 at 12:00 p.m. CDT carries the PUC's 'NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT PERMIT' for the North Rochester to Skyway High Voltage Transmission Line (location Pine Island, Goodhue; alternative review), describing the 1.2-mile 345 kV line from Xcel Energy's North Rochester Substation to four new substation facilities at the proposed Pine Island Industrial Planned Unit Development (Project Skyway) site, the four Project Skyway substations to be owned and operated by Echo Zone LLC, a subsidiary of Google LLC, with eDocket number 26-135. The same issue carries Hermantown's environmental assessment notice for Minnesota Power's St. Louis County 230 kV line to an unnamed customer's facility (docket 26-269). evidence

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board · published 2026-09-08

The EQB search service record for project 269414 (service Alternative review, notice 'NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND AVAILABILITY OF DRAFT PERMIT', mandatory category EAW Subp. 6 transmission lines, RGU Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, county Goodhue) repeats the project summary naming Echo Zone LLC, a subsidiary of Google LLC, and the four substations at the proposed Pine Island Industrial PUD (Project Skyway) site, gives the record point 44.22397, -92.64768 and attaches the PUC notice as document handle 4871810; public meetings on 14 and 15 September 2026. evidence

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board · published 2026-09-08

The EQB record for Project Skyway (Large AUAR; RGU City of Pine Island; county Goodhue) lists its steps - draft order (18 March 2025), final order (20 May 2025), draft AUAR (17 June 2025), revised AUAR (2 September 2025) and AUAR adoption, decision Adequate (notice 30 September 2025) - and describes an AUAR prepared by Ryan Companies US, Inc. for an approximate 482-acre area in the City of Pine Island and Pine Island Township, bounded by 490th Street to the north, Trunk Highway 52 to the west and south and 195th Avenue to the east, with a Mixed Technology Center/Light Industrial scenario and a Technology Center scenario; record point 44.224016, -92.645959. evidence

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board · published 2025-09-30

Scanned two-page resolution: the City Council of Pine Island (Goodhue and Olmsted counties) approved and adopted the Project Skyway Final AUAR on 16 September 2025, 5-0; the AUAR area encompasses approximately 482 acres in the City of Pine Island and Pine Island Township, Goodhue County, bounded by 490th Street to the north, Trunk Highway 52 to the west and south and 195th Avenue to the east. evidence

City of Pine Island, Minnesota (via the EQB document service) · published 2025-09-16

The project page (status active, location Rochester, Goodhue County) describes a 1.2-mile 345 kV double-circuit line connecting four new substations, east of U.S. Highway 52, to the existing North Rochester substation west of the highway, links an Interactive Map (ArcGIS Experience ced662e1eaf746e689ab67aef6e7f36b) and lists as key documents the notice of public hearings and availability of draft permit (4 September 2026), the draft route permit (18 August 2026) and the notice of complete route permit application (7 June 2026). The docket list includes the applicants' filings as 'Northern States Power Company, doing business as Xcel Energy, and Echo Zone LLC, a subsidiary of Google LLC'. No route-permit decision is listed. evidence

Minnesota Public Utilities Commission · publication date not stated

Layer 13 is named 'Project Skyway Approximate Location' (polygon; fields FID, Shape_Leng, Shape__Area, Shape__Length); data last edited 1778612933332 ms (12 May 2026). evidence

Minnesota Department of Commerce / Public Utilities Commission (ArcGIS Online) · published 2026-05-12

The layer returns four polygons labelled Proposed Substation 1 to 4 (about 7,600 to 12,800 m2 each in the service's projected units), centred between about 44.2162 and 44.2228 N near 92.6456 W, all inside the 'Project Skyway Approximate Location' polygon; they are the four Project Skyway substations of the PUC notice. evidence

Minnesota Department of Commerce / Public Utilities Commission (ArcGIS Online) · published 2026-05-12

The web map used by the PUC project page's interactive map lists as operational layers 'Project Skyway Approximate Location', 'North Rochester Substation Expansion', 'Existing North Rochester Substation', 'Proposed Right of Way', 'Proposed Substations', 'Skyway Route Width' and 'Transmission Line Alignment', all from the Skyway_WFL1 hosted service (item 7ff73b26c0754ae3a0d168cbea46c821). evidence

Minnesota Department of Commerce / Public Utilities Commission (ArcGIS Online) · publication date not stated

Google's post says 'Today we're announcing that Pine Island, Minnesota will be the future home of a Google data center', in collaboration with the city and Xcel Energy, with Xcel Energy supplying energy for the new data center under a Clean Energy Accelerator Charge contract structure. evidence

Google LLC · published 2026-02-24

Companies

• Operator: Google LLC (intended) evidence