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Data Center Events in Mandan: Aug 24th Public Hearing, Stark Power online Submissions are Live, with their Open House Aug 20th
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Data Center Events in Mandan: Aug 24th Public Hearing, Stark Power online Submissions are Live, with their Open House Aug 20th

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.

u/FreedomsKeeper — 6 days ago
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What do you all do for a living to be able to afford home prices in Bismarck?

I live in the DFW area of Texas, and spent some of my childhood in Bismarck and have family there. What blows me away is how the home prices seem to be very similar to the prices here. I am just curious what job market exists in the area to allow that.

In now way is this post to pass judgement.

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u/HeadBackground817 — 9 days ago
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Bismark food

I'm coming into town next week and have followed a few threads about restaurants. I've seen Mexican be mentioned, sushi, the clay pot spot, etc. It looks like there are plenty of decent restaurants in town.

What I'm not seeing however, is the cutty spots. The places locals would be embarrassed to send out-of-towners to.

I've done some looking on my own and found Burger Time and Scotty's, which are exactly the type of low-rent places I like.

What else do y'all got, and are either of those places I mentioned worth going to?

Thanks!

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u/NJallday81 — 10 days ago
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Crawfish sightings?

I'm a teacher in the area and am looking to connect my students with the outdoors. I am interested in creating a crawfish project am am curious about areas that people have observed crawfish near Bismarck. Not looking for anyone's secret fishing spot and we would be doing catch and release.

Any other biological/ecological phenomena are of interest as well, let me know if you all have ideas on where we might observe interesting plants/animals/etc.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

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u/RepresentativeAd6287 — 10 days ago
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Mandan's Data Center Community Meeting last night, next is the Planning and Zoning Commission Public Hearing on August 24.

*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.

u/FreedomsKeeper — 13 days ago
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Music Scenes

I've lived in North Dakota my entire life, born on the rez, been to every county, I used to know a lot about my state but since 2017 I just sort of stopped researching my own state for some reason.

I know Minot has a music scene, punk scene I believe and something else. What sort of music scene does (or did) Bismarck have.

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u/Marshmallow-Ninja — 11 days ago