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Simple Mining · Cedar Falls, Iowa

Good Neighbor
Facts

A look at the real numbers on electric bills, jobs, tax revenue, water, and land — from independent government sources.

Iowa-Owned & Community-Focused
Electric Bills

Iowa Rates
Went Down

Iowa & Nebraska

Two of the fastest-growing data center states — both saw inflation-adjusted electric rates fall, not rise. Large customers spread fixed grid costs across more users, benefiting everyone.

More large customers → fixed costs spread wider → lower rates for households.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2025

Even the national worst-case estimate by 2030 is only $1–2 per week.

Jobs Created

Real Work,
Right Here

70–200
Construction jobs during the 18-month build phase
30–50
Permanent full-time positions on-site
$60K–$155K
Typical annual pay range — well above Iowa's median wage
Many roles require technical certifications, not four-year degrees — opening doors for local workers.
Tax Revenue

Money That
Stays Here

$1+ Million per year

Estimated annual PILOT payment from a 100 MW operation

PILOT = Payment in Lieu of Taxes. PILOT or Franchise Fees are money paid to the City through Utility Bills.
This revenue flows to the City regardless of any state-level incentives — year after year.
Funds city services: roads, fire, parks, schools.
Water Use

A Tiny Drop
in the Bucket

Annual water use per person for all U.S. data centers is less than one water bottle per day.

Lawn Watering~2,920 B gallons total
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Golf Courses~531 B gallons total
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Data Centers~17 B gallons total
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Golf courses use 31× more water than all U.S. data centers combined.
Lawn watering uses 130× more.
🟠 Simple Mining: our closed-loop system uses zero evaporative water.

Sources: LBNL / DOE 2024; GCSAA 2025; EPA WaterSense (8B gal/day outdoor residential)
Land Use

The Smallest
Footprint Around

Each American's share of all U.S. data center land is about 28 square feet — the size of a closet. Here's how that stacks up:

🏡
Lawns
28,750
sq ft per American
~225 million acres total
⛳
Golf Courses
3,485
sq ft per golfer
~2.24 million acres total
🖥️
Data Centers
28
sq ft per American
~217,000 acres total
1,000× less land than residential lawns. 10× less than golf courses.

Sources: GCSAA Golf Course Environmental Profile; TechTarget / Statista 2025; HomeAdvisor / U.S. Census
Energy Efficiency

The Cloud Is Far More Efficient Than the Old IT Closet

Every business used to run servers in a back room — burning electricity at low efficiency. The cloud consolidated all of that into purpose-built energy-efficient facilities.

Data Center Energy Efficiency, 2007–2024

PUE = Power Usage Effectiveness. Lower is better. 1.0 = perfect efficiency. Source: Uptime Institute (2007–2024)

Vertical axis: PUE (lower = more efficient)

PUE ~3.0 est.
🖥️ 1990s desktop — inefficient power supplies, poor cooling, running 24/7 at a fraction of capacity
PUE 2.5
🏢 Old IT closet — the 2007 industry starting point. Half the electricity went to heat, not computing
PUE 1.56
☁️ Cloud data center industry average today — 38% better than 2007
PUE 1.1
🏆 Best-in-class — nearly every watt goes straight to computing

The Consolidation Advantage

100 office servers at 15% utilization → 20 cloud servers at 75% utilization. Same work. 80% fewer machines. Far less wasted energy.

Source: Energy Star / NRDC / ACEEE

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Grid Partnership · Renewable Integration

Flexible load is the key to unlocking more wind and solar energy.

As Iowa's use of wind and solar surges, the grid needs customers who can dial back on command — so wind energy never has to be wasted. MISO has stated that “load participation in the markets needs to be a central part of the energy transition,” and is restructuring its markets to depend on curtailable loads as a primary reliability tool.

Simple Mining operates as a Demand Response Resource with ~90% curtailability and sub-30-minute response.

~90%
Curtailability
on demand
<30 min
Response
time

Simple Mining

Cedar Falls, Iowa · simplemining.io

All data from independent government & industry sources.
DOE/LBNL · EPA · GCSAA · NGF · Consumer Energy Alliance