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Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus)

Hallam, Lancaster County, Nebraska · All 5 Crusoe sites

PermittedMixed receptionRecord updated October 12, 2026

Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus) is a permitted data center in Hallam, Nebraska (Lancaster County), operated by Crusoe. The public record puts it at announced July 2026, 35 MW planned, 10 acres. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator: Crusoe
Facility type: Data center
Location: Hallam, Lancaster County, NE
Coordinates: 40.5486, -96.7828 (approximate)
Power capacity: 35 MW planned
Land: 10 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: July 2026
Utility: Not established from a public source
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 15 permanent
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: Mixed reception
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

October 5, 2026
Permitted
Hallam Village Board approved zoning rights for the data center. Source: WOWT / KOLN
July 10, 2026
Proposed
Monolith announced plans for a data center on its Olive Creek campus with Crusoe as the prospective partner; it sought a Hallam zoning amendment to add 'data center' as an authorized use. Source: 1011 NOW (KOLN)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus) in Hallam, Lancaster County, Nebraska appear in the record, with no clear majority position. More than 200 people attended a July 2026 town hall, raising concerns about private wells, noise and light.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

More than 200 people attended a July 2026 town hall, raising concerns about private wells, noise and light. At the Oct 2026 vote, about half the room applauded and some residents were disappointed.

Source: WOWT / KOLN

Power and water

Preliminary figures: 770,000 gallons per year or less. Version-one units would be air-cooled; a second version would use closed-loop cooling (Monolith). The method is not yet fixed.

Notes on the record

Phase 1 is modular, shipping-container-sized buildings on about 10 acres in the northeast part of Monolith's Olive Creek carbon-black campus (I-2 Heavy Industrial), 35 MW, 15 jobs. A larger Phase 2 parcel east of the campus would need a separate approval. Crusoe Technologies is named as the data center developer; Monolith signed a special permit with Crusoe in July 2026. No construction timeline has been released. This is distinct from the Sagebrush Hallam hyperscale campus and from NPPD's Sheldon and Princeton Road stations. Coordinates are the Monolith Olive Creek plant point from OSM, not the 10-acre parcel.

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.

Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
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.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Sagebrush Hallam Hyperscale Campus (proposed) · Hallam · Sagebrush Infrastructure Partnersunder 1 mile · Proposed · 1.7 GW · Contested
Uniti Lincoln Data Center (former Windstream, 1440 M Street) · Lincoln · Uniti19 mi · Operating
Nebraska Colocation Centers, Lincoln (Sharp Building) · Lincoln · Nebraska Colocation Centers19 mi · Operating
Binary Net The Vault Data Center · Lincoln · Binary Net19 mi · Operating
Google Nebraska AI Campus (proposed) · Google22 mi · Proposed · Contested
Google Lincoln Data Center · Lincoln · Google25 mi · Operating

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus) in Hallam?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus)?

No lawsuit over Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus) appears in the record we track as of October 12, 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 Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus), and how big is it?

Crusoe is the operator on record. We hold 5 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 35 MW. The site is recorded at 10 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Crusoe Hallam Data Center (Monolith Olive Creek campus)," updated October 12, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/crusoe-monolith-hallam-lancaster-ne.

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/crusoe-monolith-hallam-lancaster-ne, 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.Monolith seeks to build data center in Hallam, application to be submitted by mid-July · 1011 NOW (KOLN) · retrieved October 12, 2026
2.Hallam residents question Monolith data center proposal at packed town hall · WOWT · retrieved October 12, 2026
3.Hallam Village Board approves zoning rights for data center · WOWT / KOLN · retrieved October 12, 2026
4.OpenStreetMap: Monolith Olive Creek 1, Hallam · OpenStreetMap / Nominatim · retrieved October 12, 2026

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