Coal Creek Station
Power station in McLean County, North DakotaWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
Stacy TschiderGUEST
You sell it in the state, you get paid five times.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
What do we want to do? How does this complement the coal industry, the lignite industry? I can tell you for Coal Creek Station, it's everything.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
Having load at the site is so, so important.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
And so when we start looking at the future, and bringing on more generation, using these resources in the state, this is an opportunity we should be running towards data centers, not running away from them.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
But how do we do it responsibly? North Dakota, year after year, has continued to prove itself that we can manage things responsibly.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
And so when I look at this, you know, what we're doing at Coal Creek Station, obviously we're having data center, but it's much bigger than Rainbow.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
It's for the state.
Stacy TschiderGUEST
It's for the state of North Dakota as us.
Mike JonesPANELIST
It was used strictly as a fuel.
Mike JonesPANELIST
Early in my career, that would have been about the time that Coal Creek Station was being, second one was being built.
Mike JonesPANELIST
Antelope Valley had just come online.
Mike JonesPANELIST
Dakota Gas started to operate and that was, the Secretary of Energy was up at the EERC about that time, a woman, I'm sorry I don't remember her name now, but she was talking to us and she says, we looked at the economics, it didn't look good, so we built it bigger, she said.
Mike HagerGUEST
It's been home to me ever since I was born.
Mike HagerGUEST
I grew up on a farm just a mile west of the Coal Creek Station.
Mike HagerGUEST
We were the closest farming operation, actually, to that facility.
Mike HagerGUEST
And now the entire mine is completely... around us and the folks moved off there quite a while ago.