Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion)
Minden, Kearney County, NE
Foundry Digital Minden Site (former Compute North expansion) is an announced data center project in Minden, NE. Rumored / unconfirmed: A planned Compute North crypto-mining expansion at Minden whose build-out rights passed to Foundry Digital in Compute North's Nov 2022 bankruptcy sale. No evidence it was ever built; status stale since early 2023. (Source dated 2022-11-22.) [Reviewed 2026-10-09: verified] Foundry Digital acquired rights to build out Compute North's Minden facility in Nov 2022 bankruptcy asset sale; remains proposed with no construction reported as of Sept 2026. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/22/crypto-mining-and-staking-firm-foundry-buys-some-of-troubled-bitcoin-miner-compute-norths-assets.
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- Announced
- Permitting
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Nebraska state legislation
- LB1131 - Adopt the Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Service Providers Tax Credit Act and eliminate personal property tax and sales and use tax exemptions relating to data centersDescription comingDownload
- LB468 - Change provisions relating to inheritance taxes, change certain fee and tax provisions, and eliminate a sales tax exemption relating to data centersDescription comingDownload
- LB1111 - Require an annual data center load report to the Nebraska Power Review Board, provide powers and duties for public power suppliers, allow and require regulation of data centers, and change provisions relating to regulation of cryptocurrency mining operationsDescription comingDownload
- LB1010 - Adopt the Large Load Customer Regulation Act, provide for eminent domain relating to energy storage and regulation and taxation of energy storage resources, and change provisions relating to cryptocurrency mining operations and data centersDescription comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- Foundry Digital
- County
- Kearney County, NE
- Address
- Minden, NE
- Stage
- Announced
Capacity and size: not on file
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