Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Democratic candidate Rob Sand issued a standalone policy plan laying out his vision for data centers, calling for transparency, union jobs and setback requirements.
Google Salix Data Center
Google is considering a data center in Salix, Iowa and created a public website to provide information and updates to the community about the potential project. It is reported, as reported September 3, 2026.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
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
- 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last 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
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | 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 Woodbury County and Salix 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salix | Moratorium vote on data center consideration failed in Salix, Iowa | reutersconnect.com | |
| Salix | Salix, IA city leaders discussed a data center ordinance and future conversations with Google. | kttc.com | |
| Salix | Salix city leaders discussed data center ordinance and future conversations with Google | 1011now.com | |
| Salix | Salix City Council voted down a proposed 12 month moratorium on data centers on August 20, 2026 | ktiv.com |
What happened
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Local leaders in Norwalk approved a development agreement for a $12 billion data center project. [4]
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Death threats sidelined a planned city council meeting in Salix where local leaders were set to discuss a proposed Google data center. [4]
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
Google announced a website for Salix residents to learn about a potential data center, stating it is in early review process with no final decision made [6]
The full Google Salix Data Center timeline, in order
5 corrections to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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· the speaker role of a statements row
Speaker read again from the statement's source line, "Mayor Kevin Nelson, Salix": the title in front of the name (Mayor) is the role, not part of the name. The old and new text.
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· the speaker of a statements row
Speaker read again from the statement's source line, "Mayor Kevin Nelson, Salix": the title in front of the name (Mayor) is the role, not part of the name. The old and new text.
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· 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.
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· 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.
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· 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
The Winnebago Tribal Council has approved a resolution opposing hyperscale data centers on or near its reservation
Republican candidate Zach Lahn calls for a statewide pause on data center construction.
Every statement about data centers in Iowa, by speaker
5 more statements on this page
Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Sand stated Iowans have been getting a raw deal from data centers.
Salix City Council member
City Council Member Gene Monk voted for a one year moratorium to allow time for community research before making a decision
Mayor, Salix
Mayor Kevin Nelson confirmed that no moratorium was legally in place following the July meeting, and the moratorium failed to pass at both the July and August 20 meetings
Salix City Council
The moratorium would have suspended all communication with Google as the tech giant explores constructing a data center on land in Salix
The site
Where in Woodbury County is not in the public record. The pin marks the county seat, not a building, and the outline is the county.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- 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
- Salix, Woodbury 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.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Google Salix Data Center?
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Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Google Salix Data Center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Google Salix Data Center stand today?
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It is reported, as reported September 3, 2026. The newest entry, reported September 10, 2026: Local leaders in Norwalk approved a development agreement for a $12 billion data center project. [4]
What has Salix or Woodbury County decided about it?
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Salix: Moratorium vote on data center consideration failed in Salix, Iowa (reported September 16, 2026, source); and Salix: Salix, IA city leaders discussed a data center ordinance and future conversations with Google. (reported September 10, 2026, source). 4 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- GOOGLE HOPES TO WORK WITH SALIX ON DATA CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL - KSCJ 1360, KSCJ 1360, August 5, 2026, query feed
- Google creates website to provide info, updates on possible Salix data center - siouxcityjournal.com, siouxcityjournal.com, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Google debuts website encouraging Salix residents to learn about data centers - kcau9.com, kcau9.com, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Iowa data center debate looms in governor race. Where Sand, Lahn stand - Muscatine Journal, Muscatine Journal, September 10, 2026, local outlet
- Google to shift data center plans from rural Linn County to Palo - Corridor Business Journal, Corridor Business Journal, March 4, 2026, local outlet
- Google debuts website encouraging Salix residents to learn about data centers, www.yahoo.com, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Google is considering a data center in Salix, IA - KTIV, KTIV, August 3, 2026, local outlet
7 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Google Salix Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-salix-data-center-ia, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Google Salix Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-salix-data-center-ia. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- google-salix-data-center-ia
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ia/woodbury-county/salix
- Coordinates
- 42.49806, -96.39556
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Sioux City), 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
- 2026-09-17