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Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion)
Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska
Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) is a proposed crypto mining site in Minden, Nebraska (Kearney County), operated by Foundry Digital. The public record puts it at announced November 2022.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Foundry Digital
- Facility type
- Crypto mining
- Location
- Minden, Kearney County, NE
- Coordinates
- 40.5033, -98.9484 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- November 2022
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- 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
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
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.
- November 2022ProposedAs part of Compute North's bankruptcy asset sale, Foundry acquired rights to completely build out and operate Compute North's Minden, Nebraska facility. Source: CoinDesk
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) in Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska 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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Notes on the record
A Compute North crypto-mining expansion planned at Minden, Kearney County, whose build-out and operating rights passed to New York-based Foundry Digital in the November 2022 bankruptcy asset sale (alongside operational sites Foundry bought outright in North Sioux City, SD and Big Springs, TX). ⚠️ MOST UNCERTAIN CANDIDATE IN THIS SET, read before publishing. Status is 'proposed' because no source I fetched shows the Minden site was ever built: CoinDesk describes only RIGHTS to build out, and the Flatwater reporting describes a transfer in process. The most recent evidence is from January 2023, over three years stale. confidence is deliberately set to 'reported' rather than the 'confirmed' the two-source rule would give, because both sources confirm the same November 2022 transaction rather than independently confirming a facility exists. Distinct from the Kearney (Buffalo County) site already tracked as mara-kearney-buffalo-ne: Minden is a different town in a different county, and Kearney went to Generate Capital, not Foundry. No megawatts, acreage or investment published. Coordinates are the Minden town centroid, NOT a site geocode. Recommend confirming against NPPD large-load records or Kearney County zoning before staging. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked the original 2022-11-22 CoinDesk report on Foundry's acquisition of Compute North's assets (including the Minden, NE site); it covers only transaction/capacity details and Foundry leadership statements, with no community reaction, hearing, or local-official statement documented.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- 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
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- 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.
- 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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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.
- Sequitor Edge Kearney Data Center · Kearney · Sequitor Edge15 mi · Permitted
- MARA Kearney Facility · Kearney · MARA Holdings16 mi · Operating · 100 MW
- Fortitude Prosser Nebraska Facility · Prosser · Fortitude23 mi · Operating · 12.5 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) data center in Minden?
Nothing on record as of September 10, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) in Minden, Kearney County, Nebraska 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 Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) data center?
No lawsuit over Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) appears in the record we track as of September 10, 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 Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) 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 Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion), and how big is it?
Foundry Digital is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion)," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/foundry-minden-ne.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/foundry-minden-ne, retrieved September 14, 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.Crypto Mining and Staking Firm Foundry Buys Some of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Compute North's Assets, 'Foundry will also have rights to completely build out and operate Compute North's facility in Minden, Neb.' · CoinDesk · retrieved August 14, 2026
- 2.Crypto needs cheap energy. It found a whole bunch in Nebraska., 'In Minden, a planned Compute North expansion is now being transferred to another company' (Foundry Digital, Kearney County) · Flatwater Free Press · retrieved August 14, 2026
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