Rezone for Sioux Falls data center inches toward fruition

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A data center campus in North Dakota. (Courtesy photo)

A planned data center in eastern Sioux Falls took a major step forward this week.

Sioux Falls City Councilors on Tuesday gave their preliminary blessing to a proposed rezone request from Gemini Capital, a California-based developer readying to build a large-scale data center — warehouse-like structures that house high capacity-computing server farms — along Rice Street between Veterans Parkway and Six Mile Road.

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