survey respondents
Approximately 60% of Peosta residents see no benefit to data center development
Peosta Data Center
Peosta is reviewing data center development concept plans in the early stage of evaluating a proposal. 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
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 | 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.
- 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 Dubuque County and Peosta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubuque County | County will seek legal review from county attorney on data center ordinance | telegraphherald.com | |
| Dubuque County | Dubuque County Zoning Commission agreed to use citizen created regulations as framework for data center ordinance | telegraphherald.com | |
| Dubuque County | Dubuque County Zoning Commission held a work session on the county's data center ordinance at Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta on September 22, 2026. | telegraphherald.com | |
| Peosta | Peosta data center moratorium set to expire in December, city council considering extension | kcrg.com | |
| Peosta | Peosta City Council work session held on data center ordinance and moratorium extension | kcrg.com | |
| Dubuque County | Zoning commission plans another work session September 22 | cbs2iowa.com |
7 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dubuque County | County is considering monitoring aquifers and drilling wells to track water levels | cbs2iowa.com | |
| Dubuque County | The moratorium on new data center applications runs until late May | cbs2iowa.com | |
| Dubuque County | A moratorium on new data center applications remains in place in Dubuque County | cbs2iowa.com | |
| Dubuque County | County is six work sessions into writing rules for data centers | cbs2iowa.com | |
| Dubuque County | Dubuque County is developing a proposed ordinance for data centers with setbacks from homes, roads, streams and sinkholes | cbs2iowa.com | |
| Dubuque County | Dubuque County Board of Supervisors held a work session to discuss potential pollution issues from data centers as the county works to create a new ordinance | kwwl.com | |
| Dubuque County | Dubuque County is rethinking its data center ban plan | kwwl.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.
What was said
87% of residents surveyed oppose any data center development in Peosta
Every statement about data centers in Iowa, by speaker
1 more statement on this page
The site
Where in Dubuque 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
- Peosta, Dubuque 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 Peosta 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 Peosta 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 Peosta 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 Peosta or Dubuque County decided about it?
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Dubuque County: County will seek legal review from county attorney on data center ordinance (reported September 24, 2026, source); and Dubuque County: Dubuque County Zoning Commission agreed to use citizen created regulations as framework for data center ordinance (reported September 24, 2026, source). 13 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Reporting
- Peosta reviews data center development concept plans - KCRG, KCRG, August 21, 2026, local outlet
- VIDEO HIGHLIGHT: Dubuque County's data center conversations in 60 seconds - TelegraphHerald.com, TelegraphHerald.com, August 6, 2026, local outlet
2 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Peosta Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/peosta-data-center-ia, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Peosta Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/peosta-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
- peosta-data-center-ia
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ia/dubuque-county/peosta
- Coordinates
- 42.50432, -90.68686
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Dubuque), 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