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Cedar Rapids Third Data Center (Southwest Side)

Cedar Rapids confirmed a third data center is planned for the southwest side of the city. It is reported, as reported July 9, 2026.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 3 sources, 0 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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.

Land
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Oppidan (CLOP Cedar Rapids IA LLC)
as stated by the source [2]
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Oppidan (CLOP Cedar Rapids IA LLC) as stated by the source [2] cbs2iowa.com October 6, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

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 useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What was decided

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

DateWhoDecisionSource
Cedar Rapids residents seek answers on proposed south side data center at community meeting cbs2iowa.com
Linn County Linn County adopted a moratorium after developing an ordinance with independent water studies, setbacks, property owner protections, and community benefit investments. thegazette.com
Linn County Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency board unanimously directed staff to prepare resolution requiring commercial sites including data centers to sort waste before landfill delivery thegazette.com
Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids Solid Waste Agency found banned cardboard and recyclables at data center waste sites kcrg.com
Linn County Linn County implemented a data center moratorium thegazette.com

What happened

  1. (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    This area has been zoned for industrial use since early 2000s [2]

  2. · Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)

    The newly approved facility would be about the size of half a Target Supercenter; facility location at 1515 33rd Ave. SW [2]

The full Cedar Rapids Third Data Center (Southwest Side) timeline, in order

1 correction to this record

Every correction, with its reason

  1. · the kind of source of a history entry

    The source was labeled with the Google News search that found it; it now carries its outlet's tier (the record's rules of 2026-09-23). The link did not change. The day's label corrections.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

Cedar Rapids offered data center companies tax credits; companies pay less than a third of commercial property taxes for the first 20 years
Tiffany O'Donnell, Cedar Rapids mayor · July 24, 2026 · paraphrased · KCRG local outlet
QTS announced a five million dollar grant to local organizations including the Iowa Workforce Development Foundation
Tag Greason, QTS Co-CEO · July 14, 2026 · paraphrased · thegazette.com local outlet

Every statement about data centers in Iowa, by speaker

1 more statement on this page

Tag Greason, QTS Co-CEO

Grant intended to address labor concerns for data center development

July 14, 2026, thegazette.com · thegazette.com local outlet · the record (Paraphrased; said in the source itself)

The site

Where in Linn County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.

  • This record: Proposed, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 12 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.

Where
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa
How exactly it is located
County level, the county seat
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at a county seat.

Keep going

The county Linn County 3 projects on the record. A pause on new data centers is on the record. The state Data centers in Iowa Every Iowa project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Cedar Rapids Third Data Center (Southwest Side)?

Oppidan (CLOP Cedar Rapids IA LLC) is the developer, source. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Cedar Rapids Third Data Center (Southwest Side) say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Cedar Rapids Third Data Center (Southwest Side) stand today?

It is reported, as reported July 9, 2026. The newest entry, reported July 9, 2026: This area has been zoned for industrial use since early 2000s [2].

What has Cedar Rapids or Linn County decided about it?

Cedar Rapids: residents seek answers on proposed south side data center at community meeting (reported September 18, 2026, source); and Linn County: Linn County adopted a moratorium after developing an ordinance with independent water studies, setbacks, property owner protections, and community benefit investments. (reported August 30, 2026, source). 5 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.

Sources

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

Reporting

  1. Cedar Rapids confirms third data center planned for southwest side - KCRG, KCRG, July 8, 2026, local outlet
  2. Third data center project revealed in Cedar Rapids as City Officials try to ease concerns, cbs2iowa.com, July 9, 2026, local outlet
  3. Cedar Rapids mayor explains financial benefits of data center projects - KCRG, KCRG, July 24, 2026, local outlet

3 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Cedar Rapids Third Data Center (Southwest Side)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/cedar-rapids-third-data-center-southwest-side-ia, last verified October 6, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Slug
cedar-rapids-third-data-center-southwest-side-ia
Status value
rumored
Stage
Proposed
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/ia/linn-county/cedar-rapids
Coordinates
41.98333, -91.66861
Location precision
county
Location source
County seat (Cedar Rapids), Wikidata, placed at county level
Coordinate source
wikidata county seat
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 16, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-05
Last verified
2026-10-06