Simple Mining Manchester Bitcoin Data Center
Manchester, Delaware County, IA
Simple Mining Manchester Bitcoin Data Center is a planned data center in Manchester, IA. Simple Mining's largest planned facility, a 50-container crypto-mining data center in Manchester, won site plan approval from the Manchester City Council in January 2025. Company targets 500 MW under management by end of 2026 across its Iowa sites. (Source dated 2025-01-15.).
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
- OperationalNot yet
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Iowa state legislation
- QTS Cedar Rapids I Data Center Campus – Development Agreement (with Amended Agreement, Assignment of Obligations, and Recording Memoranda)City-developer development agreement (with amendments and assignment) governing TIF, infrastructure and obligations for the QTS Cedar Rapids I data center campus.Download
- HB897 - Sales/use tax exemption for data centers (clean energy)Delays effective date of retail sales/use tax exemption for data centers and adds clean energy requirements.Download
- SB4016 - Comprehensive hyperscale data center environmental/water/energy regulationEstablishes comprehensive environmental, water, and energy regulations for hyperscale data centers, including cumulative impact assessments and Water Impact Permits.Download
- Amendments to Chapter 107 of the Unified Development Code (Ordinance PA26-0001)Linn County, Iowa unified development code amendments regulating data centers, approved February 18, 2026.Download
- SSB3181 - A bill for an act making certain sales and use tax exemptions relating to nuclear electric generation facilities, web search portal businesses, and data center businesses contingent upon making contributions to institutions of higher education governed by the state board of regents.(See SF 2498.)Description comingDownload
- HF2447 - A bill for an act relating to water and energy use for data centers, including reporting and tariff requirements, and including effective date provisions.(See HF 2690.)Description comingDownload
- HF2690 - A bill for an act relating to water and energy use for data centers, including reporting and tariff requirements, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HF 2447.)Description comingDownload
- HF2001 - A bill for an act relating to water efficiency of data centers, including requirements for water-efficient cooling technologies and encouragement for the use of nonpotable and recycled water sources, providing civil penalties, and including effective date and applicability provisions.Description comingDownload
- HF2198 - A bill for an act relating to the disclosure of tax incentives provided to web search portal businesses and data center businesses, and including effective date provisions.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- Not announced
- County
- Delaware County, IA
- Address
- Manchester, IA
- Stage
- Planned
Capacity and size: not on file
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