Data Center Registry
AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1)
Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota
AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) is an operating crypto mining site in Blue Earth, Minnesota (Faribault County), operated by AAIM Data Centers. The public record puts it at 95 MW planned.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- AAIM Data Centers
- Facility type
- Crypto mining
- Location
- Blue Earth, Faribault County, MN
- Coordinates
- 43.6350, -94.0980 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 15 MW operating; 95 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 13, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) in Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
AAIM's launch announcement places the site on Highway 169 near the Blue Earth Light and Water substation, with fiber from Bevcomm. Its 2026-08-15 expansion announcement describes an agreement with an existing utility partner at Blue Earth adding 80 MW targeted for Q3 2027. The serving utility is not named outright in either announcement, so no utility value is asserted.
Notes on the record
On Highway 169 in Blue Earth, MN (county seat of FARIBAULT County, note this is NOT 'Blue Earth County', which is a separate county to the east whose seat is Mankato; classic MN city/county name trap, verified via Wikipedia/Data Commons as of August 2026). AAIM's own site lists this as 'Minnesota 1', 15MW, in-service June 2025, described elsewhere (DCD, 2024) as an 'HPC/cryptomine' facility; AAIM's own copy says it serves 'high-performance computing, enterprise data, and crypto mining needs', classified as a data center with a mixed-use AI classification rather than as a crypto-mining facility because AAIM operates it as multi-tenant colocation (landlord model) rather than mining for itself, unlike Revolve Labs. 10,000 sq ft facility. AAIM's CEO (Levesque) is also CTO of crypto-mining-hardware firm Hash House Tech, noted for context, not fact-changing.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) data center in Blue Earth?
Nothing on record as of October 13, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) in Blue Earth, Faribault County, Minnesota appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) data center?
No lawsuit over AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) appears in the record we track as of October 13, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) use?
No water withdrawal figure for AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1), and how big is it?
AAIM Data Centers is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 95 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "AAIM Data Centers, Blue Earth (Minnesota 1)," updated October 13, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aaim-data-centers-blue-earth-mn.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aaim-data-centers-blue-earth-mn, retrieved October 29, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Minnesota 1 - AAIM Data Centers · AAIM Data Centers (official) · retrieved September 18, 2026
- 2.AAIM to Launch Cutting-Edge Data Center in Blue Earth, Minnesota · AAIM Data Centers (official) · retrieved August 8, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from June 16, 2026
- 3.AAIM Data Centers, AAIM to Launch Cutting-Edge Data Center in Blue Earth, Minnesota (relocated under /news/) · AAIM Data Centers · retrieved September 18, 2026
- 4.AAIM Data Centers, AAIM Secures an Additional 80 MW at Minnesota 1 (2026-08-15): campus goes "from a 15 MW colocation facility" to 95 MW, targeted Q3 2027 · AAIM Data Centers · retrieved September 21, 2026
- 5.AAIM: Minnesota 1 Energy Park Data Center (Blue Earth, MN) · Baxtel · retrieved October 13, 2026
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