# Minnesota — Data Center Policy Brief

_Generated 2026-08-21 from the Data Center Policy Tracker. Verify every item against its primary source._

## Snapshot
- 14 tracked items: 14 state bills and 0 federal items tied to the state delegation.

## Leading themes
- Tax Incentives: 11
- Siting & Land Use: 9
- Energy: 6
- Water: 4
- Ratepayer: 3
- Grid Reliability: 3
- Carbon: 3
- Certification & Standards: 2

## Policy mechanisms
- Tax incentive / clawback: 10
- Siting & permitting: 1

## Tracked records
- **MN-HF4990** — Criteria for preapplication evaluations of water appropriations for certain data centers modified, data centers' electricity sales exempted in calculating a utility's solar energy standard, other data center exemptions provided, and data center energy generation redundancy provided. (Introduction and first reading, referred to Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF4990/2025
- **MN-HF2928** — Preapplication filings for large water appropriation projects required, permit application information for large water appropriation projects added, level of environmental review for data centers specified, data centers exempted from making financial contributions to an energy conservation and optimization plan, and other data center provisions modified. (Author added Jones) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF2928/2025
- **MN-HF4153** — Criteria for preapplication evaluations of water appropriations for data centers modified, data centers' electricity sales exempted in calculating a utility's solar energy standard, and data centers exempted from paying sales tax on electricity purchases. (Introduction and first reading, referred to Energy Finance and Policy) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF4153/2025
- **MN-SF5100** — Data centers provisions modifications (Referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF5100/2025
- **MN-SF4681** — Various data center exemptions and provisions modifications (Referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF4681/2025
- **MN-SF3968** — Data centers provisions modification (Referred to Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF3968/2025
- **MN-SF3265** — Sales and use tax exemption for data centers repeal (Author added Carlson) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF3265/2025
- **MN-HF1277** — Data centers sales and use tax exemption modified. (Author added Zeleznikar) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF1277/2025
- **MN-SF769** — Certain data centers tax exemption modification (Referred to Taxes) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF769/2025
- **MN-SF4203** — Exemption of data centers modification for sales and use tax (Author added Boldon) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF4203/2025
- **MN-HF5125** — Data centers sales and use tax exemption repealed, and contingent reduction in special education aid appropriations repealed. (Author added Pursell) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF5125/2025
- **MN-HF4173** — Certain defined terms maintained, and data center exemptions modified. (Author added Kozlowski) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF4173/2025
- **MN-SF5231** — Data centers tax exemption repeal; contingent reduction in special education aid appropriation repeal (Author added Boldon) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/SF5231/2025
- **MN-HF3304** — Sustainable aviation fuel income tax credit and exemptions for data centers and construction of sustainable aviation fuel facilities repealed, increased general fund amounts reallocated from repealed tax provisions to increase the renter's credit, and corresponding technical changes made. (Authors added Virnig and Jones) — https://legiscan.com/MN/bill/HF3304/2025

## Coverage note
State legislation is title-matched for precision, so this is a high-signal sample rather than a complete census. The tracker does not yet ingest local/county proceedings or all state PUC/PSC dockets.