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Google Cedar Rapids data center

Google lists a data center at Cedar Rapids, Iowa and says it is being built. It is being built; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

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

Last verified · 4 sources, 1 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
Google
as stated by the source
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 Google as stated by the source September 17, 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)

    QTS data center under construction in Cedar Rapids, Big Cedar Industrial area [4]

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

    Google data center under construction on Edgewood Road SW in Cedar Rapids [4]

  3. · Status: being built (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Google lists Google Cedar Rapids data center at Cedar Rapids, Iowa on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full Google Cedar Rapids data center timeline, in order

What was said

Korey Hall, associate professor of pre engineering at Kirkwood, expressed concern about data center energy use and environmental impacts
Korey Hall, associate professor of pre-engineering, Kirkwood Community College · September 16, 2026 · paraphrased · eaglevoice.com local outlet

Every statement about data centers in Iowa, by speaker

The site

Where in Cedar Rapids is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Cedar Rapids, not a building, and the outline is Linn County.

  • This record: Being built, 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
Town level, the center of the city
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 the center of its town.

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 Google Cedar Rapids data center?

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

How much power and water does Google Cedar Rapids data center say it needs?

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

Where does Google Cedar Rapids data center stand today?

It is being built; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, reported September 16, 2026: QTS data center under construction in Cedar Rapids, Big Cedar Industrial area [4].

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.

Primary documents

  1. Google: Data center locations, Google, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Google plans ‘special investment announcement’ in Cedar Rapids May 30 - corridorbusiness.com, corridorbusiness.com, May 22, 2025, query feed
  2. Google announces $7 billion investment in Iowa, including new Cedar Rapids data center - The Des Moines Register, The Des Moines Register, May 30, 2025, query feed
  3. Cedar Rapids data centers spark environmental concerns - eaglevoice.com, eaglevoice.com, September 16, 2026, local outlet

4 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Google Cedar Rapids data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-cedar-rapids-data-center-ia, last verified September 17, 2026.

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Slug
google-cedar-rapids-data-center-ia
Status value
under_construction
Stage
Being built
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/ia/linn-county/cedar-rapids
Coordinates
41.9653, -91.6794521
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 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
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-17