Robbie Bahr
Free concert and peaceful protest scheduled for Sunday, September 13 from 2 to 10 p.m. at Riverview Bandshell in opposition to data center
QTS Clinton Data Center
QTS officials offered input on a hyperscale data center project planned for Clinton, Iowa, while Clinton residents requested steep restrictions on the facility. It is reported, as reported August 29, 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
- QTS
- 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 | QTS | 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 happened
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(source date; the content gives no date of its own)
QTS is currently constructing a data center on 612 acres in Cedar Rapids at the Big Cedar Industrial Center [2]
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· Status: rumored (source date; the content gives no date of its own)
QTS proposes a 1,100 acre hyperscale data center estimated to cost 10 billion dollars between Clinton Municipal Airport, Valley Oaks Golf Course and Branden Hills residential area [2]
The full QTS Clinton Data Center timeline, in order
2 corrections 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.
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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
NO Data Center Concert organized by Robbie Bahr held in protest on September 13 from 2 to 10 p.m. at Clinton, Iowa Bandshell
Clintonians Against Data Centers raised concerns about displacement of wildlife, local job creation, tax abatement, water usage, and effects on wildlife at the proposed QTS Clinton data center
Every statement about data centers in Iowa, by speaker
2 more statements on this page
former concert promoter and Clinton resident
Robbie Bahr called for a moratorium of roughly 500 to 600 days to allow additional study and public discussion
The site
Where in Clinton 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
- Clinton, Clinton 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 QTS Clinton Data Center?
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QTS is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does QTS Clinton 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 QTS Clinton Data Center stand today?
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It is reported, as reported August 29, 2026. The newest entry, reported August 29, 2026: QTS is currently constructing a data center on 612 acres in Cedar Rapids at the Big Cedar Industrial Center [2].
What has Clinton or Clinton County decided about it?
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No decision by Clinton or Clinton County about data centers is on the record. The Clinton County page and the Iowa scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- QTS Data Centers: All locations, QTS Data Centers, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Clinton data center ordinance to be discussed at Tuesday meeting - WVIK, Quad Cities NPR, WVIK, Quad Cities NPR, August 29, 2026, local outlet
- QTS officials offer input on Clinton data center plans - WVIK, Quad Cities NPR, WVIK, Quad Cities NPR, September 3, 2026, local outlet
- Clinton residents request steep restrictions in the face of QTS hyperscale data center - Iowa Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, July 16, 2026, local outlet
4 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "QTS Clinton Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/qts-clinton-data-center-ia, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "QTS Clinton Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/qts-clinton-data-center-ia. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
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For researchers
- Slug
- qts-clinton-data-center-ia
- Status value
- rumored
- Stage
- Proposed
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ia/clinton-county/clinton
- Coordinates
- 41.8469, -90.2072
- Location precision
- county
- Location source
- County seat (Clinton), 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