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Stark Power, the foreign owned company driving this Mandan Data Center project, is accepting submissions here: https://mandandc.com/
Please ask as many questions as possible, and voice your disapproval of the project. Or your approval if you enjoy the idea of yourself or your neighbors to suffering through this forever more.

Stark Power is also having an open house on Aug. 20th in Mandan. Here's a (paywalled) source link from the Bismarck Tribune.

***MOST IMPORTANTLY***
The public City of Mandan Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting is on Aug. 24th at 5:30pm in the Mandan High School Auditorium (the new location at 2335 4th Ave NW).
Here's more information posted to facebook from Snortland for ND, the official City of Mandan meetings calendar can be found here.

The rules and regulations that North Dakota and Mandan have for Data Center construction are nearly nonexistent. They are being written NOW.
Now is the time to make your voice heard.
Speak up before your voice is drowned out by the song of the data center.

*Image from the KFYR article

The KFYR article doesn't do this meeting justice. As you can see, the auditorium was just shy of being packed to capacity and not a single pro data center voice was heard.

The article also didn't go into details in regards to the updated draft for Data Centers the City of Mandan released yesterday, found here.

Or, for example, that previously listed distance requirements between the data center and residential homes have been replaced by a convoluted set-back ratio.
Do you know a good way to figure out how far this facility would be required to be from residences? I don't. Certainly not before construction has started and floor plans released. Any ideas on how we can know if it will be far enough away to leave those residential buildings habitable and to not crash the property values?

Why should you worry about this hyper-scale data center project? Here's a youtube video of a news report interviewing people already living in that situation.

Make your voice heard. Attend the Mandan Planning and Zoning Commission Public Hearing on Aug. 24th.
Speak up so this data center company doesn't drown out your voice.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1477584391080560&set=a.552740010231674

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the county meeting last night! The seats were filled, people were left standing, and according to news over a hundred people attended.
Keep in mind this was the *county* meeting, not the *city* meeting, so we'll all have more meetings to attend in the future.

KFRYTV article

KX News Facebook Link (short video)

Thank you, everyone, who was able to join! The seats were filled, and it is reported a lot of people couldn't join as there was no further available space.
Here are some followup reporting links;
https://northdakotamonitor.com/2026/07/15/data-center-concerns-dominate-public-comment-for-new-legislative-committee/

https://www.kfyrtv.com/2026/07/15/nd-ai-data-center-committee-holds-first-meeting/

Well done! Keep it up!

Here is the tentative agenda;
https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-2025/interim/27-5168-02000-meeting-agenda.pdf

Public Comments at 11:15.

Here's the ND Monitor article;
https://northdakotamonitor.com/briefs/north-dakota-ai-committee-releases-agenda-for-first-meeting-next-week/

The World Resources Institute put together a good article here. The top two concerns were contending with soaring energy prices and the protection of local water supplies. The article goes into more concerns.

Here's a recording from another concerned citizen in a similar meeting.

More from those who live near a data center. The brown tap water is one problem of many.

Here's a youtube video about data centers, including how data centers often get tax breaks and have the electrical costs passed on to the local energy customers.

MDU is already asking regulators to approve a 14.5% rate increase. Here's the KFYR article. Even if they are being honest about it not being data-center related, that just means MDU customers will see further increases as data centers get built.

If you are able, please attend and voice your opposition.

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