This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Council Bluffs · Pottawattamie County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000710
What the source record says
Google's flagship Iowa data center in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County — operational since 2007, heavily expanded across multiple buildings (the Southlands campus on Bunge Ave among them). Distinct from Google's tracked Cedar Rapids campus and from the separate proposed Google/Tenaska Nebraska project. Per Google's own location page, Google has invested $20B+ across Iowa since 2007 (Council Bluffs + Cedar Rapids combined — not a site-specific figure). No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of a disclosed campus address; 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
- 2007 · reported operational
Operational since 2007 per Google's own Iowa location page; multi-building campus, actively expanding.
Sources and attribution
- Google Iowa — official location page: Council Bluffs operational since 2007, multi-building campus · Google
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Google Inc partners with MidAmerican Energy to purchase 407 MW wind
- Google's Iowa Data Center Buys 407 MW of RECs
- Data Center Knowledge — Iowa officials approve tax breaks for Google data center expansion
- Data centers consume massive amounts of water - companies rarely tell the public exactly how much · The Current
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-council-bluffs-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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