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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- Palo · Linn County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000731
What the source record says
Proposed campus of up to six buildings on land near the Duane Arnold Energy Center in unincorporated Linn County near Palo. Distinct site from Google's existing Cedar Rapids data center at the Big Cedar Industrial Center. No construction timeline set; Google shifted from county approval to annexation into the City of Palo in February 2026.
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
- 2025-10-06 · reported proposed
Google approached the Linn County Board of Supervisors about a project of up to six buildings near the Duane Arnold Energy Center.
Sources and attribution
- Google exploring data center project near Palo · The Gazette
- Google eyes data center in Palo to bypass Linn County regulations · Iowa Public Radio
- Linn County considers exception for Google as nearby Palo passes data center regulations · Iowa Public Radio
- Data Centers in Unincorporated Linn County (EU-3 district and 18-month moratorium) · Linn County, Iowa
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-palo-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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