Shortly after 6:30 p.m., local dispatch received a call about “four to five” drones flying around the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant in Welch ... two nuclear power plants in Minnesota.

Amazon’s proposed data center in Minnesota would need nearly as much power as Xcel’s large Monticello nuclear plant now ...

Xcel Energy will refund Minnesota ... for replacement power costs after its workers accidentally severed underground cables and shut down the Prairie Island nuclear power plant for months.