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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Applied Digital
- Address and locality
- Adair · Adair County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 4 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000082
What the source record says
Proposed southeast of Adair adjacent to a NextEra Energy substation. Local reporting put projected employment at 40-70 full-time positions with 50-200 construction workers; those are ranges and are not recorded as a jobs figure. The most recent primary reporting located this session dates to April 2024, and Adair County put its large-scale building ordinance on hold the following month, so the project's current standing is uncertain — confidence is 'reported' and the 200 MW figure comes from a third-party project tracker, not from the developer.
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
- 2024-04-10 · reported proposed
Adair County supervisors discussed the proposed data center and set a public hearing on a setback ordinance; construction had been proposed for summer or fall 2024.
Sources and attribution
- Adair County Supervisors Discuss Proposed Data Center and Set Public Hearing on an Ordinance Creating Setbacks · Western Iowa Today (KSOM/KS 95.7)
- Data Centers in Iowa — Project List & Locations (Applied Digital Adair, Adair County, 200 MW, planned) · Cleanview
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID applied-digital-adair-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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