LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1)
Altoona, Polk County, IADeveloper: LightEdge SolutionsCensus GEOID 19153
- Stage
- Running
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Water
LightEdge Solutions operates the DSM1 commercial colocation data center at 1435 Northridge Circle in Altoona, Polk 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.
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- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
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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] lightedge.com
- Who leads it
- LightEdge Solutions 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
- LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1), 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:
- LightEdge Solutions (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] lightedge.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 | LightEdge Solutions | 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] lightedge.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 Polk County and Altoona about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
June 15, 2026 West Des Moines, IA Norwalk City Council sees push back on proposed data center
In West Des Moines, Polk County (IA), West Des Moines City Council and local residents debated municipal data center siting, utility infrastructure load, water consumption, and zoning rules during the June 15, 2026 session.
- West Des Moines City Council Officials and Speakers Elected Official auto captions, unchecked
"pollution, and power usage. One resident telling Local 5 he feels the city has been trying to hide the project from the public. One of my kids that lives in Norwalk sent me a text, hey, did you read this article in the newspaper in Indianola about the meeting next Thursday? And I'm like, what meeting? And so as I started to dig into it, I'm like, there was no information. The council's going to vote on a deal with the developers. Nobody"
- Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
"employees. The city does clarify that tonight's vote does not approve or authorize any data center to be built. It simply begins talks between Norwalk and the land developer."
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May 16, 2022 Altoona, IA Here's why Facebook choose Iowa for new data center
Altoona City Council approval of economic development property tax rebates and municipal water agreements for the Meta Altoona hyperscale data center campus in Polk County (May 16, 2022).
- Altoona City Council Hearing Speaker Developer Representative auto captions, unchecked
"Facebook location? 476,000 square feet... this giant building is one of four Facebook data centers, the others are in North Carolina, Oregon, and Sweden... Facebook will employ 75 workers here, most of which are security team members right now ...the building runs on 100 percent renewable energy...and is an incredible testament to green technology...usin g the heat from the endless rows of servers that administer to the over 1 billion Facebook users"
- Altoona City Council Hearing Speaker Elected Official auto captions, unchecked
"billion Facebook users worldwide...and combining that heat with the cold outside to create room temperature... The state offered 18 million in tax credits and Facebook won't have to pay property taxes for 20 years....but officials with Facebook say other sites also offered financial incentives - there are many other reasons they chose Altoona and Iowa. 29:34-"you have to have a site that is obviously quite large, you have to have the ability to have energy supply, that is of the capacity that we need, so"
- Resident public comment Resident Public Comment auto captions, unchecked
"you have to have the ability to have energy supply, that is of the capacity that we need, so there are a lot of thing that are mandatory, and then there are a lot of things we want to have and I would say some of those in the case of iowa are the work force, this was a shovel ready site, and we were able to take advantage of renewable energy that is here." This is just the first Facebook"
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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
- 1435 Northridge Circle, Altoona, IA 50009, Altoona, Polk County, Iowa [1] lightedge.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
- LightEdge Altoona Data Center 2 (DSM2), under 0.1 mi
- Meta Altoona Data Center Campus, 0.5 mi
- Tract Altoona Data Center Park, 1.7 mi
- Cologix Des Moines Carrier Hotel (DSM1), 8.6 mi
- Aureon West Des Moines Data Center, 13 mi
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Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1)?
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The record has 2 measures of its size: 8 MW (the developer's figure, lightedge.com (opens in a new tab)) and 1 building (operator page, verified October 27, 2026, lightedge.com (opens in a new tab)). Its acreage is not disclosed.
Who is building LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1)?
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LightEdge Solutions is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1) say it needs?
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Power: 8 MW (the developer's figure, lightedge.com (opens in a new tab)). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1) 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 Altoona or Polk County decided about it?
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No decision by Altoona or Polk County about data centers is on the record. The Polk County page and the Iowa scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1) Official Disclosure (opens in a new tab), LightEdge Solutions, query feed
1 source on file.
About this data
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Cite this page
Data Center Record, "LightEdge Altoona Data Center 1 (DSM1)", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/lightedge-solutions-lightedge-des-moines-1-dsm1-altoona-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
- 41.6582, -93.4895
- How the location is known
- Location from the site's street address.
- Location source
- https://www.lightedge.com/data-center-locations/des-moines-data-center/
- Coordinate source
- LightEdge DSM1 Altoona specification
- How capacity was disclosed
- the developer's figure
- Capacity, if disclosed
- 8 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