Mindstream Energy Plans 400MW Gas-Powered Data Center at Jordan’s Al-Risha Gas Field

Mindstream Energy, a US-based data center and bitcoin mining company, has proposed building a 400MW gas-powered data center campus at the Al-Risha gas field near Jordan’s eastern border with Iraq. The project, developed through the company’s Jordanian subsidiary Mindstream Jordan LLC, spans 245 acres and is designed to support artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, sovereign cloud, and advanced digital infrastructure across Jordan and the broader Middle East and North Africa region. An AI-generated concept plan also suggests the campus may include a solar farm, though no further details have been disclosed.

The company has secured a long-term natural gas supply agreement with Jordan’s National Petroleum Company for the project, according to Mindstream founder and CEO Mark Thimmig, who shared the update on LinkedIn. While Jordan is not currently a major data center hub, the project aims to position the country as an emerging destination for energy-intensive digital infrastructure by leveraging its domestic gas reserves. Mindstream specializes in pairing low-cost natural gas with modular data center deployments, and the company claims its modular models can deliver new compute capacity in as little as three to four months from order to operational delivery.

No specific construction timeline has been provided for the Al-Risha campus, but the company has existing partnerships with edge data center firm Armada, which may play a role in the buildout. Earlier this year, Mindstream announced it would launch initial operations for another data center project with Missaukee Oil and Gas Company and Armada in the first quarter of 2026. The Al-Risha proposal underscores a growing trend of data center developers co-locating facilities at or near energy sources to reduce power costs and improve deployment speed, particularly in regions with underdeveloped grid infrastructure but abundant fossil fuel resources.