Cannon Falls staff outline water, sewer caps and developer payments for proposed data center; work session set for Thursday

Cannon Falls city staff briefed the City Council on terms under negotiation with a developer proposing a data center, saying the development agreement is not final and that a joint work session with the Planning Commission is scheduled for Thursday to share detailed figures.

John, a city staff member, told the council that water use in the agreement would be capped at 43,000,000 gallons per year at the end of a 10‑year buildout. He said the property includes an irrigation well with an existing appropriation of 41,000,000 gallons per year that could not be repurposed for industrial use without Minnesota Department of Natural Resources approval and would be available for non‑city uses only in narrowly defined emergency circumstances. "43,000,000 gallons per year is the cap of which water that they can draw from the city," John said.

On the sewer side, staff said the most recent request shows average collections of about 50,000 gallons per day. City studies, staff said, were…