Under construction

Stellar Forge Spearville AI/crypto hybrid campus

Stellar Forge Mining / Stellar Forge Compute is building Stellar Forge Spearville AI/crypto hybrid campus in Spearville, KS. Rumored / unconfirmed: Baxtel lists Stellar Forge developing a crypto-mining data center with an 'AI campus hybrid' at Spearville in Ford County (listed as under construction/development), plus a planned micro data center campus in the town of Ford. No primary news source located; treat as a lead to verify.

Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain)

Project status

Announced
Permitting
Under construction
Operational

Recorded changes

October 13, 2026
Stafford County postpones data center project hearing after county staff urged denial
NewsSource: WJLA
October 13, 2026
Guilford County weighs 180-day data center ban
NewsSource: Greensboro News & Record

Community sentiment

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What’s next

Election Day is in 10 days.

Tuesday, November 3
Election Day
Thursday, November 5KS
Guilford County Comissioners to vote on 180-day data center moratorium on Nov. 5

Latest news

Nothing written about this data center yet. The latest from Ford County, KS:

Stafford County postpones data center project hearing after county staff urged denial
wjla.comOct 13, 2026
Guilford County weighs 180-day data center ban
greensboro.comOct 13, 2026

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Records and documentation

Kansas state legislation

SB553 - Data centers and water use consumption reportingLegislationdatacenterbans.comRequires water use consumption reporting related to data centers.Download
SB 98 (Data Center Sales Tax Exemption)Legislationfas.orgKansas 2025 law creating a 20-year state and local sales tax exemption for qualifying data centers.Download
Resolution 2026-4 (Moratorium)Moratoriumharveycounty.civicweb.netHarvey County, Kansas resolution imposing a data center development moratorium, January 13, 2026.Download
SB400 - Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.Legislationlegiscan.comIn committee Jan 28, 2026Description comingDownload
SB526 - Requiring data centers to be located on land that was zoned for industrial or manufacturing uses or was not zoned on July 1, 2025, to qualify for the sales tax exemption for qualified data centers.Legislationlegiscan.comIn committee Mar 4, 2026Description comingDownload
SB531 - Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.Moratoriumlegiscan.comFailed Mar 10, 2026Description comingDownload

Site details

Operator: Stellar Forge Mining / Stellar Forge Compute
County: Ford County, KS
Address: Spearville, KS
Stage: Under construction

Capacity and size: not on file

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Photos

Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map (public domain)
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