Iowa research coverage.

Source references: IA-S0001, IA-S0022

• IEDA board minutes and award database not opened; the March 2024 IEDA board action on the Cedar Rapids / Google local property tax exemption was seen only in search results.
• No Department of Revenue register of registered data center businesses is published, so certified recipients could not be enumerated.

Source references: IA-S0003, IA-S0004, IA-S0005

• IUC Electronic Filing System (efs.iowa.gov) is a single-page application; docket TF-2025-0047 and TF-2025-0007 filings and orders were not read.
• MidAmerican Energy large-load contracts are treated as confidential in IUC filings according to search results; no MidAmerican data center docket was located.
• No Iowa RTO or utility interconnection queue record naming a data center was retrieved.

Source references: IA-S0006, IA-S0007, IA-S0008, IA-S0009, IA-S0010, IA-S0011, IA-S0012

• The DNR construction permit search serves permit rows only through interactive per-city queries, so generator construction permits for Google, Meta, QTS, Apple and colocation sites were not retrieved.
• Water withdrawal, wastewater and stormwater construction general permit notices were not searched at all.
• The Iowa EASY Air public inquiry portal was not opened.

Source references: IA-S0013, IA-S0014, IA-S0015, IA-S0016

• City of West Des Moines returned HTTP 403 to every request, so no West Des Moines site plan, rezoning or development-agreement record was read.
• Council Bluffs uses a NovusAGENDA postback search, so Resolution 25-224 and the Google and CyrusOne records were not read.
• No county assessor or GIS parcel record was opened for any Iowa candidate, so every candidate lacks a parcel identifier.
• The Hancock County zoning case file and Planning & Zoning Commission minutes for the MCNI rezoning were not located.

Source references: IA-S0002, IA-S0023

• The executed QTS and Google development agreements themselves, and the December 2025 amended QTS agreement, were not retrieved.
• The City of Council Bluffs urban renewal page returned HTTP 429, and no Iowa annual urban renewal report was opened.
• No Chapter 427B or data center property tax exemption filing was retrieved for any candidate.

Source references: IA-S0017

• Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Oracle, QTS, Tract, Edged, CyrusOne, LightEdge and Aureon location pages were not opened.
• No operator sustainability or investor material other than Alliant Energy's slides was read.

Source references: IA-S0018

• Smaller Iowa colocation and edge leads in the extract (Aureon 616, Cologix DSM1 and DSM2, Ark Data Centers Marion, InfoBunker, ITS Monticello, TierPoint Newton, US Signal IA01, Bluebird Quad Cities, Fidium, South Front Networks, Oppidan Des Moines, LightEdge Ames, Edged Ankeny, PathOne Hull) were read in the extract but not worked up into candidates.
• No directory listing (Data Center Map, Baxtel, datacenters.com) was opened.

Source references: IA-S0019

• No county or city record of the Hancock County denial was retrieved; only news reporting.
• Archived pages, renames and acquisitions of Iowa colocation operators (for example Involta to Ark Data Centers) were not researched.
• Search results referenced a Linn County 18-month moratorium on new large-scale data center rezonings effective 2026-07-01; the ordinance was not opened.

Source references: IA-S0020, IA-S0021

• Most news leads surfaced in search results (Business Record, The Gazette, Corridor Business, Iowa Public Radio, Inside Climate News) were not opened.