Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha)
Hiawatha, Linn County, IADeveloper: EnsevaCensus GEOID 19113
- Stage
- Running
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Water
Enseva operates a commercial colocation data center at 755 Metzger Drive in Hiawatha, Linn County, Iowa. It is running; 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.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, 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.
- Power it would draw
- 8 MW the developer's figure About 0 percent of New York City's summer peak demand in 2024.
- [1] enseva.com
- Who leads it
- Enseva 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
- Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha), capacity: 8 MW.
- New York City (NYISO Zone J) summer peak demand, actual, 2024: 10,245 MW (2024).
- 8 ÷ 10,245 = 0 (MW over MW).
Sources:
- Enseva (opens in a new tab)
- NYISO, 2025 Load and Capacity Data Report (Gold Book) (opens in a new tab), Table I-4a, Baseline Summer Non-Coincident Peak Demand, Historical and Forecast, page 26, Zone J, 2024 row (2024)
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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | 8 MW | the developer's figure | [1] enseva.com (opens in a new tab) | October 27, 2026 |
| How much water it would use | ||||
| How loud it would be | ||||
| Jobs once it runs | ||||
| Tax it would pay each year |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Enseva | as stated by the source | October 27, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | ||||
| How much land | ||||
| Buildings | 1 building | operator page, verified October 27, 2026 | [1] enseva.com (opens in a new tab) | 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 Linn County and Hiawatha about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linn County | Linn County supervisors approved creation of a 40 member advisory committee to review data center development and recommend changes to the county's zoning code | thegazette.com (opens in a new tab) | |
| Cedar Rapids | residents seek answers on proposed south side data center at community meeting | cbs2iowa.com (opens in a new tab) | |
| 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 (opens in a new tab) | |
| 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 (opens in a new tab) | |
| Cedar Rapids | Cedar Rapids Solid Waste Agency found banned cardboard and recyclables at data center waste sites | kcrg.com (opens in a new tab) | |
| Linn County | Linn County implemented a data center moratorium | thegazette.com (opens in a new tab) |
2 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linn County | Linn County Board of Supervisors voted 2-1 in July to implement an 18 month moratorium on all large scale data center development | thegazette.com (opens in a new tab) | |
| Linn County | Linn County approved an 18 month moratorium on new large scale data centers in unincorporated areas. | cbs2iowa.com (opens in a new tab) |
September 20, 2026 Cedar Rapids, IA Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency Data Center Construction Waste Policy
In September 2026, the Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency enacted mandatory construction waste diversion rules after massive volumes of recyclable materials from Google and QTS hyperscale data center builds in southwest Cedar Rapids strained county landfill capacity.
- Cedar Rapids Linn County Solid Waste Agency Official Board & Planning Staff transcribed from the official recording
"that increase, the biggest change was waste coming from data center construction. Load after load included recyclable things like clean wood pallets and scrap metal, but cardboard was the biggest concern. >> Cardboard has been banned from our landfill since 1999. And the way that the ban is written is if the load contains cardboard, their tipping fee doubles. And so, they were getting fined for it, but it wasn't slowing it down. So, we really realized we had to take another step."
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What happened
No dated entry is on the record yet.
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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.
The site
The pin is the site's address.
- Where
- 755 Metzger Drive, Hiawatha, IA 52233, Hiawatha, Linn County, Iowa [1] enseva.com (opens in a new tab)
- 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
- Nearest records
- Google Cedar Rapids Data Center, 9.6 mi
- Iea, SBD, 9403- Aegon Data Center, 9.7 mi
- Oppidan Connect Cedar Rapids Data Center (CLOP Cedar Rapids), 9.9 mi
- QTS Cedar Rapids Data Center Campus, 10.0 mi
- Emerson Global Data Center, 62 mi
Keep going
Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha)?
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The record has 2 measures of its size: 8 MW (the developer's figure, enseva.com (opens in a new tab)) and 1 building (operator page, verified October 27, 2026, enseva.com (opens in a new tab)). Its acreage is not disclosed.
Who is building Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha)?
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Enseva is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha) say it needs?
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Power: 8 MW (the developer's figure, enseva.com (opens in a new tab)). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha) stand today?
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It is running; 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 Hiawatha or Linn County decided about it?
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Linn County (rated restrictive): Linn County supervisors approved creation of a 40 member advisory committee to review data center development and recommend changes to the county's zoning code (October 5, 2026, thegazette.com (opens in a new tab)); and Cedar Rapids: residents seek answers on proposed south side data center at community meeting (reported September 18, 2026, cbs2iowa.com (opens in a new tab)). 8 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha) Official Disclosure (opens in a new tab), Enseva, query feed
1 source on file.
About this data
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Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Enseva Cedar Rapids Data Center (Hiawatha)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/enseva-llc-enseva-cedar-rapids-hiawatha-ia. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY-NC 4.0.
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For researchers
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- built from one source
- Tags
- Built from one source
- Coordinates
- 42.0468, -91.6892
- How the location is known
- Location from the site's street address.
- Location source
- https://enseva.com/
- Coordinate source
- Enseva Hiawatha specification
- How capacity was disclosed
- the developer's figure
- Capacity, if disclosed
- 8 MW, the developer's figure
- Rating of the county's rows
- Restrictive
- 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