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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Cedar Rapids · Linn County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,050 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001197
What the source record says
Coordinates approximate for Big Cedar Industrial Center; parcel is adjacent to Google's campus in the same 1,391-acre industrial park. $10B investment is total planned across 7 phases over up to 25 years; minimum $250M per phase, each requiring a 300,000 sq ft building. 7 buildings planned at full build-out. Permanent jobs figure is minimum per phase. QTS Co-CEO Tag Greason stated the completed seven-building campus will ultimately draw about 1,050 MW of power from Alliant Energy (planned, full build-out). QTS Data Centers is owned by Blackstone (2021 take-private).
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
- 2025-01 · reported permitted
Cedar Rapids City Council approved development agreement with QTS Cedar Rapids LLC on January 28, 2025
- 2025 · reported under construction
Ground broken on first building; April 2026 site tour attended by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed active construction
Sources and attribution
- City of Cedar Rapids, Alliant Energy, and QTS Collaborate on New Data Center Campus · City of Cedar Rapids
- QTS breaks ground on data center campus in Iowa · Data Center Dynamics
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gets Approval for Two Major Data Center Investments by Google and QTS · Data Center Frontier
- Data center project pitched as win for jobs, rates in Iowa (QTS Co-CEO: campus will ultimately use about 1,050 megawatts) · The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
- Iowa communities grapple with regulating data centers as development spreads · Business Record
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID qts-cedar-rapids-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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