Lincoln Data Center
A Lincoln data center prompted construction of a $10 million wastewater line to transport cooling water to a recovery site, with construction beginning in June 2026. It is reported; 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.
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
- Not disclosed
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
- Where its power comes from
- more than Lincoln's total power demand
- as stated by the source [1]
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 | Not disclosed | |||
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | more than Lincoln's total power demand | as stated by the source | [1] omaha.com | September 25, 2026 |
| 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.
- Who is behind itA land record, a zoning application or a company's own announcement.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Lancaster County and Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hallam | Village board vote to approve data center scheduled for October 5 at Hallam village board meeting | omaha.com | |
| Hallam | Hallam planning commission unanimously recommended approval for Monolith's proposed data center | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Board includes representatives from Nebraska Public Power District, Lincoln Electric System, Lower Platte South Natural Resources District, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and five members of public | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task force will report to Lincoln Lancaster County Planning Commission by end of year | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task force will meet approximately six times from October to December 2026 | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County Board approved creation of 15 member task force charged with recommending land use regulations | omaha.com |
9 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lancaster County | Application for Task Force volunteers is open until September 25, 2026 | klkntv.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task Force will meet six times over a three month period from October to December 2026 | klkntv.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County Board of Commissioners is forming a Data Center Task Force to study guidelines for data center use, potential locations and procedural policies | klkntv.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County Board created 13 member task force to review data center proposal and recommend regulations to Planning Commission by end of year | starherald.com | |
| Lancaster County | Task force charged with reviewing data center proposal and recommending regulations to Planning Commission by end of year | omaha.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County board decided to create a 13 member data center task force | omaha.com | |
| Lincoln | City of Lincoln announced it would not pursue additional large scale data centers outside Google's site near North 35th Street and Interstate 80 | journalstar.com | |
| Lancaster County | Matt Schulte, Lancaster County Commissioner, proposed moratorium late last month after Israeli company appeared to plan hyperscale data center near Hallam | journalstar.com | |
| Lancaster County | Lancaster County considering moratorium on data center construction | journalstar.com |
What happened
No dated entry is on the record yet.
1 correction to this record
Every correction, with its reason
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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.
The site
Where in Lancaster 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: 11 other published records in Nebraska
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
- Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska
- 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 Lincoln Data Center?
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Not disclosed. No source on file names the developer. The sources read for this record are listed under Sources.
How much power and water does Lincoln 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 Lincoln Data Center stand today?
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It is reported; 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 Lincoln or Lancaster County decided about it?
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Hallam: Village board vote to approve data center scheduled for October 5 at Hallam village board meeting (reported September 18, 2026, source); and Hallam: Hallam planning commission unanimously recommended approval for Monolith's proposed data center (reported September 18, 2026, source). 15 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Google proposes Nebraska data center requiring more power than all of Lincoln, omaha.com, March 19, 2026, local outlet
- Construction begins on $10 million wastewater line to transport cooling water from Lincoln data center to recovery site - KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE, KOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE, June 4, 2026, local outlet
- Construction begins on $10 million wastewater line to transport cooling water from Lincoln data center to recovery site - 1011now.com, 1011now.com, June 4, 2026, local outlet
3 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Lincoln Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/lincoln-data-center-ne, last verified September 25, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Lincoln Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/lincoln-data-center-ne. 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
- lincoln-data-center-ne
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ne/lancaster-county/lincoln
- Coordinates
- 40.80917, -96.67806
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Lincoln), 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
- Case by case
- Published
- 2026-09-05
- Last verified
- 2026-09-25