Manning Municipal Utilities

05/25/2026

05/21/2026

MMU Local News / Announcements: Memorial Day Lunch @ Zion in Manning | May 25th 10:30am-1pm

Memorial Day Lunch at Zion!
Monday, May 25
10:30 - 1:00
All invited!

05/18/2026

👇Join us for the 1-Day Volleyball Camp (Grades 3rd-12th) & unleash your skills with Camp Coach Jess Lansman! Registration Deadline is 6-15-2026 🏐 Sign Up Today!

05/18/2026

The Director of Manning Municipal Utilities (MMU) Jeremy Carroll addressed Manning Rotary on Tuesday May 5th. His presentation was the relevance of the new Data Center in Manning’s Industrial Park, and an update on the status of the empty nursing home facility on Historic Main Street.

Most people in Manning aren’t aware nor have they seen the Data Center. It looks like eight transformers in a field surrounded by a chain link fence. Investors from Texas collaborated with MMU and signed a 20 year lease to build a tool for the internet cloud in Manning. This tool facilitates Artificial Intelligence, block chain mining, and cloud based storage.

The transformers have a low carbon footprint because they are air cooled and don’t need water. A septic tank is on site but probably will not have anything in it. The Texas investors agreed to be an interruptible customer, meaning Manning gets electricity first. This facility needs as much as 19 megawatts. Manning’s peak demand is 6 megawatts. Not to worry, because MMU has an excess capacity of up to 60 megawatts.

The significance to Manning is continued low cost for electricity well into the future. Our rates now are about 10.5 cents per kilowatt hour. Customers surrounding Manning pay over 16 cents. If a Manning resident pays $1000 in electricity every year, your bill would be $1350 or more if you are not receiving energy from MMU.

MMU is owned by Manning. Gas was the only profitable utility making money when Jeremy became the director. Today, every utility including electric, water, and cable is in the black. Our cable has been replaced by a high speed fiber network that doubled everybody's speed and did not increase cost.

Our utility costs remain comparatively low to other towns and cities. MMU employs more than ten skilled workers that can do almost anything. Their wages stay within the community. We also don’t have far away corporations taking revenue to provide our service. MMU keeps the revenue and invests it to keep rates low. Our privately owned MMU makes Manning very unique.

The Texas Data Center investors would have never looked at Manning as a site without our availability of low cost electricity and fiber network utilities. Jeremy’s strategy is “we build it, and more will come.”

The nursing home is now owned by the City of Manning, and the IKM-Manning school has the first option. Nothing has been finalized on how the nursing home will be transformed. Jeremy says Manning would prefer to have a one customer lease for the whole building.

One of the options would be to renovate the building into an elementary school. MMU could leverage its borrowing power to obtain a loan to pay for the renovation without raising property taxes. No property tax increase means that a bond issue passing would not be necessary. The school board will decide if this is the best option.

On Tuesday May 12th, IKM-Manning school will send participants from the State Speech contest to discuss and perform their work for our Rotary. As always, the public is invited to attend our meeting at noon in the Hospital Conference room.

Sincerely,
Tim Weible
President of Manning Rotary

Pictured below is the new Data Center on the northwest side of Manning.

05/18/2026

MMU Local News & Announcements: 🐎Join the fun @ the Manning Hausbarn-Heritage Park this Saturday the 23rd! Gates Open at 9am - Fun for the whole family!

05/15/2026

🎓 Congratulations to the IKM-Manning Wolves Class of 2026 from all of us here at MMU!

A very special congratulations to Grace Carroll, daughter MMU General Manager Jeremy & Gina Carroll, and Anna Stangl, daughter of MMU Board Member Aaron & Abbey Stangl. Your hard work, dedication, and achievements have made your families and community incredibly proud.

Best wishes to Grace, Anna, and the entire graduating class as you begin this exciting new chapter. Once a Wolf, always a Wolf! 🎓💚🖤

05/04/2026

Join us for the next Rotary meeting on Tuesday May 5th! Manning Municipal Utilities director Jeremy Carroll will present an update at the Manning, Iowa Rotary Club on the value and significance of the new Data Center, and the progress on repurposing the empty nursing home on Historic Main. As always, the public is welcome to attend the Manning Rotary meeting in the hospital conference room at noon.

First, thanks to our followers and readers for a record 10,000 plus views of our post on President Dan Behrens presenting the upcoming Carroll County Fair to our Rotary last tuesday. Scroll down on our page to read our summary of his talk if you missed it.

Last Tuesday, IKM-Manning teacher Emma Konkler-Petersen talked about her teaching and coaching our kids. Emma has been a science teacher of Physics and Chemistry for 8 years. She also started a Forensics class that has become quite popular.

Emma is a former track star that competed at Buena Vista University. Listening to her speak and observing her character, it's easy to understand how she can mesh so well with our students.

There were 14 girls out for track when she started coaching five years ago. There are now 30 girls out for the sport. There's excitement and pride that's building a sustainable tradition. The girls are getting good and defeating larger schools. Emma's success is based on getting the girls to feel that it's cool to run track, and exciting when you win.

Emma said that they've always had runners. But they now also have field events participants that are getting points previously left on the table.

Good luck to the girls track team in the upcoming conference meets and state qualifying. Thanks to Emma for sharing, and thanks to Rotarian Greg Sextro for inviting her.

On Tuesday May 5th, Manning Municipal Utilities director Jeremy Carroll will present an update on the value and significance of the new Data Center, and the progress on repurposing the empty nursing home on Historic Main. As always, the public is welcome to attend our meeting in the hospital conference room at noon. You might want to be there for this one.

Sincerely,
Tim Weible
President of Manning Rotary