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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Apple
- Address and locality
- 2995 W. Hickman Road · Waukee · Dallas County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000081
What the source record says
Apple data center near the intersection of Hickman Rd and S Avenue, Waukee, Dallas County — announced by Tim Cook in 2017; first building became operational in October 2024 on a 2,000-acre site, a $1.3B investment (AppleInsider). Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names Iowa among states for continued data-center capacity expansion. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024 · reported operational
First building operational October 2024 (announced 2017 by Tim Cook); $1.3B, 2,000 acres.
Sources and attribution
- Seven years on, Iowa's Apple data center finally opens — $1.3B, 2,000 acres, first building operational Oct 2024, announced 2017 · AppleInsider
- Apple $500B U.S. investment release — names Iowa among states for continued data-center capacity expansion · Apple Newsroom
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Apple's next US data center will be built in Iowa (Apple Newsroom) · Apple Newsroom
- Apple Files Plans for Long-Delayed Data Center Campus in Iowa (Data Center Frontier)
- IA to give Apple $208M in tax breaks for $1.3B data center · Construction Dive
- Growth of data centers in Iowa · Business Record
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID apple-waukee-ia. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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