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Apple Waukee Data Center Campus

Waukee, Dallas County, IADeveloper: AppleCensus GEOID 19049

Stage
Being built
Power
100 MW
the developer's figure
Buildings
2 buildings
agency filing, verified October 27, 2026
Undisclosed in public filings
Land, Water

Apple is constructing its $1.3 billion hyperscale data center campus on a 2,000 acre site in Waukee, Dallas County, Iowa. It is being built; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

1 hearing on the record, 2022

Last verified · 2 sources, 1 primary · Built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

  • This record: Being built, ringed
  • data center
  • Smaller pins: 25 other published records in Iowa
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Buildings
2 buildings agency filing, verified October 27, 2026
[2] iowaeda.com
Power it would draw
100 MW the developer's figure About 1 percent of New York City's summer peak demand in 2024.
[2] iowaeda.com
Who leads it
Apple as stated by the source
Undisclosed in public filings
Land, Water, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
The math behind the comparison
  1. Apple Waukee Data Center Campus, capacity: 100 MW.
  2. New York City (NYISO Zone J) summer peak demand, actual, 2024: 10,245 MW (2024).
  3. 100 ÷ 10,245 = 0.01 (MW over MW).

Sources:

A comparison is arithmetic on two published rows and is never a new fact (how comparisons are made).

Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs 100 MW the developer's figure [2] iowaeda.com October 27, 2026
How much water it would use [1] apple.com
How loud it would be
Jobs once it runs
Tax it would pay each year

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Apple as stated by the source October 27, 2026
Who is constructing it
How much land
Buildings 2 buildings agency filing, verified October 27, 2026 [2] iowaeda.com October 27, 2026
Where its power comes from
Grid connection
How it is cooled

A blank value cell means not disclosed by any source on file; a blank basis cell means the source gave the figure without saying on what basis.

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water use A state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use it A lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Jobs and tax An incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

Acts of Dallas County and Waukee about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

August 25, 2022 Waukee, IA Apple data center property tax valuation error costs Waukee schools $2.3M, city $3M Waukee City Council 3clips

Waukee City Council and Dallas County Assessor public record on the Apple data center property tax abatement valuation error that reduced Waukee school and municipal revenue by $5.3 million (August 25, 2022).

  1. Waukee City Council Hearing Speaker Developer Representative transcribed from the official recording
    "IT WAS CONCERNING, RIGHT? PROBABLY OTHER WORDS THAT ARE MORE STARTLING IN MY MIND. WAUKEE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT DOCTOR BRAD BUCK SAYS HE CAN’T SAY SOME OF THOSE WORDS ON TV, BUT THEY DID CROSS HIS MIND WHEN HE FOUND OUT HIS BUDGET WILL LOSE MORE THAN $2 MILLION THIS YEAR. THIS IS JUST A CRAZY, UNUSUAL THING THAT THE TOTAL VALUATION OF YOUR DISTRICT WOULD CHANGE MIDSTREAM. BUCK SAYS HE FIRST HEARD THE BAD NEWS A FEW WEEKS AGO. HE SAYS ORIGINALLY, DALLAS COUNTY VALUED THE NEW APPLE DATA CENTER ON THE WEST EDGE OF WAUKEE AT $192 MILLION FOR TAX PURPOSES, BUT SCHOOL LEADERS SAY THEY RECENTLY FOUND OUT THE"
  2. Waukee City Council Hearing Speaker Elected Official transcribed from the official recording
    "VALUATION IS MORE LIKE $60 MILLION. THAT MEANS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL LOSE $2.3 MILLION FROM THE BUDGET, SINCE THAT MONEY IS ALREADY IN THE BUDGET, BUCK SAYS THEY WILL HAVE TO CUT SOME FUTURE PROGRAMS. HE SAYS CURRENT STAFF AND SCHOOL PROGRAMS WILL NOT BE AFFECTED. IT’S GOING TO COME THIS MOMENT WHERE WE’RE GOING TO BE SITUATED TO DO A LITTLE DREAMING AND REALLY EXPAND SOME OPPORTUNITIES, EXPERIENCES FOR KIDS. AND NOW THAT’S AT LEAST ON HOLD FOR ANOTHER YEAR. WE’RE ALSO LEARNING THE CITY OF WAUKEE WILL LOSE MORE THAN $3 MILLION FROM ITS BUDGET AFTER THE APPLE DATA CENTER VALUE CHANGE."
  3. Resident public comment Resident Public Comment transcribed from the official recording
    "THE CITY HAS A RESERVE FUND TO COVER SOME OF THOSE LOSSES. IT ALL PROBABLY AFFECTS SOME PROJECTS IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS TIMELINE. SO LIKE INFRASTRUCTURE, LIKE ROADS, EXACTLY WHAT. YET WE HAVE TO DETERMINE. NOW, BUCK SAYS HE PLANS TO ASK STATE LAWMAKERS TO GET SOME OF THAT LOST FUNDING BACK. HE SAYS THE DISTRICT IS ALSO DISCUSSING ITS LEGAL OPTIONS IN THIS CASE. BY THE WAY, WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO DALLAS COUNTY. WE’RE WAITI"
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Said and filed

Said and filed

Statements and filings, side by side

Statement and primary filing Waukee and Council Bluffs, IA Hearing Record → Project Dossier: google-council-bluffs-data-center-ia → Project Dossier: apple-waukee-data-center-ia →
tax_incentives Water
Column A · Dated Statement
Iowa Economic Development Authority and Municipal Sponsors State and Municipal Economic Development Officials
Venue: Waukee and Council Bluffs Data Center Tax Incentive and Expansion Hearings
"Approving multi decade property tax abatements and state tax rebates for hyperscale data centers in Waukee, Altoona, and Council Bluffs guarantees transformative public infrastructure funding and long term school district tax growth."
KCCI Des Moines
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Column B · Primary Government Record
Dallas County Assessor Tax Abatement Valuation Audit ($5.3M School and City Shortfall) and Council Bluffs Water Works Records
Dallas County Assessment Roll Correction (Apple Waukee Abatement) · Council Bluffs Water Works Filings
Agency or Venue: Dallas County Assessor, Waukee Community School District, and Council Bluffs Water Works
"Dallas County property tax abatement records revealed a valuation error on the abated Apple data center parcel that cost the Waukee Community School District $2.3 million and the City of Waukee $3 million in budgeted funds, while Council Bluffs municipal water records showed Google campuses consuming over 900 million gallons annually."
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What happened

No dated entry is on the record yet.

  • Read on October 27, 2026 (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Verified facility status from Iowa state agency permits, utility dockets, municipal planning filings, or operator campus specifications.

    [2] iowaeda.com

The site

The pin is the site's address.

The site map is at the top of the page.

Where
Grand Prairie Parkway and Hickman Road, Waukee, IA 50263, Waukee, Dallas County, Iowa [2] iowaeda.com
How exactly it is located
Exact, at the address
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center

USGS NAIP aerial view of Apple Waukee Data Center Campus
LAT 41.62850 / LON -93.90420 Imagery: U.S. Geological Survey / USDA NAIP (Public Domain)
USGS National Map OpenStreetMap

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The county Dallas County 3 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Iowa Every Iowa project, the rules on the record and what comes next. Nearest proposal Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus Van Meter, Dallas County, 7.0 mi away · Being built
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Questions about this project

5 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is Apple Waukee Data Center Campus?

The record has 2 measures of its size: 100 MW (the developer's figure, iowaeda.com) and 2 buildings (agency filing, verified October 27, 2026, iowaeda.com). Its acreage is not disclosed.

Who is building Apple Waukee Data Center Campus?

Apple is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Apple Waukee Data Center Campus say it needs?

Power: 100 MW (the developer's figure, iowaeda.com). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Apple Waukee Data Center Campus stand today?

It is being built; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.

What has Waukee or Dallas County decided about it?

No decision by Waukee or Dallas County about data centers is on the record. The Dallas County page and the Iowa scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Apple Environmental Progress Report 2026 (Covering fiscal year 2025, Pages 52–54 & 81), Apple Environmental Progress Report 2026, April 1, 2026

Reporting

  1. Apple Waukee Data Center Campus Official Disclosure, Apple, query feed

2 sources on file.

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Stage
Being built
Tier
built from one source
Tags
Built from one source
Coordinates
41.6285, -93.9042
How the location is known
Location from the site's street address.
Location source
https://www.iowaeda.com/
Coordinate source
IEDA Board approval and City of Waukee development agreement
How capacity was disclosed
the developer's figure
Capacity, if disclosed
100 MW, the developer's figure
Published
October 21, 2026
Last verified
October 27, 2026
Undisclosed in public filings
Location source number, Location last verified, EPA registry id, Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How water was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Rating of the county's rows

Researcher view · Apple Waukee Data Center Campus · 2 sources, 1 entry, 0 decisions nearby · basis and source tier on every row · verified October 27, 2026

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