Elk, Minnesota is a small unincorporated community in Itasca County in the northern part of the state, located approximately 250 miles from Texas and thus outside the jurisdiction of Texas datacenter infrastructure, energy, or policy.
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In Minnesota, Elk and Bloom townships formally oppose Geronimo Power's Nobles County project partly over water supply strain, with residents questioning the long-term viability of a closed-loop cooling system that has no operational precedent at the proposed scale.