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Data centers in Sioux County, Iowa

Sioux County has 1 data center on the record; it is proposed. Sioux County has a scorecard row with no rating yet, and a pause on new data centers is on the record. The latest decision on the record: Sioux County Planning and Zoning commission recommended approval of proposed data center rules, September 18, 2026.

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How to read this page. Every count comes from the records on this page and links to where it is counted. Nothing is published until a person reads its source, and a figure no source gives reads Not disclosed; nothing is estimated. A rating changes only when a person sets it.

The data center in Sioux County

Each row is one site with its stage, its latest dated entry and what its sources disclose. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed.

  1. Reported Built from one source

    PathOne Hull Data Center

    Hull, Sioux County · PathOne

    Latest, reported August 20, 2026: PathOne Data Centers held a webinar to address questions about data center proposal in Ida County stormlakeradio.com local outlet

    Land
    Not disclosed
    Power
    Not disclosed
    Water
    Not disclosed
    Tenant
    Not disclosed

Where

1 data center in Sioux County: proposed. A dashed edge means the exact site is not in the public record; every pin here marks a town or the county.

The outline is Sioux County's boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tap a pin for that data center's facts and a link to its page.

The cities in Sioux County on the record (1)

1 of 1 city has a record. A city without one is listed, not linked, until its first published record. No city in Sioux County has a rule, a statement by an official or a rating on the record yet.

CityProjects
Hull1

What Sioux County has decided

1 body, 4 decisions on the record

What the county and the cities in it have done about data centers: each body on its own row with its rating, open, case by case, restrictive or closed, never good or bad, and every vote, ordinance, moratorium or agreement behind its toggle, newest first, with its source.

Reported: the source's date; the item names no day of its own.

  1. Sioux Countycounty

    County zoning director Shane Walter sent draft data center ordinance to county attorney Tom Kunstle and IT director Micah Van Maanen for review, reported September 16, 2026.

    nwestiowa.com local outlet

    no published rating
    4 acts on this row
    1. ordinance

      County zoning director Shane Walter sent draft data center ordinance to county attorney Tom Kunstle and IT director Micah Van Maanen for review.

      nwestiowa.com local outlet

    2. ordinance

      Planning and Zoning Board voted to recommend the draft ordinance to the supervisors on September 10, 2026.

      nwestiowa.com local outlet

      Also reported by 2 sources
    3. moratorium adopted

      Sioux County passed moratorium on data centers

      nwestiowa.com local outlet

    4. moratorium adopted

      Sioux County Board of Supervisors passed one year moratorium on construction of data centers and industrial battery storage facilities at June 16 meeting.

      nwestiowa.com local outlet

    Last verified September 23, 2026.

The rules across Iowa.

Disclosed figures

nothing disclosed by 1 record

Power, water, jobs and tax, summed only where a data center disclosed the figure; what each facility is for; how each is cooled. Nothing here is estimated.

Power, water, jobs and tax

FigureDisclosed totalDisclosedNot disclosedBasis
PowerNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per dayNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Water, stated per yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Permanent jobsNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record
Tax each yearNot disclosed01Not disclosed by any of the 1 record

Summed only where a record disclosed the figure; a record with no figure adds nothing and is counted as not disclosed. Water is summed per day and per year separately, as the sources stated it, and never converted. A tax claim given as a range is summed at both ends.

By what the facilities are for

UseRecordsPowerWaterJobsTax each year
Not disclosed1Not disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosedNot disclosed: power, water, jobs, tax each year

A record that lists several uses counts once under each. Each cell is the sum over the records with that use, disclosed rows only.

What the facilities are for

No source on file states what any of the 1 tracked facility in Sioux County is for.

How the facilities are cooled

No source on file states how any of the 1 tracked facility in Sioux County is cooled.

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Data Center Record, "Data centers in Sioux County, Iowa", https://datacenterrecord.org/states/ia/sioux-county, updated September 23, 2026.

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