Iowa Data Center Intelligence

Mapped Iowa data center sites, with their power, water and risk

One app for every Iowa county: data center sites, power, grid and FEMA risk, with hearing alerts and an API. 60 data center buildings are mapped in 6 of its 99 counties, and businesses pay 10.84¢ per kWh for power, 19% below the US average.

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Where are Iowa's data centers?

60 mapped buildings sit in 6 of Iowa's 99 counties. Polk County has the most: 24.

Which risks do the counties with data centers face?

Drought is the most common risk: 3 of the 6 counties with mapped data centers rate high for it.

Bars: counties with mapped data centers that rate Relatively high or Very high . Tap one to show it on the map.

All 99 counties as a table

County facts

What will a Iowa site pay for power, and how fast is demand growing?

Business power in Iowa costs 10.84¢ per kWh, 19% below the US, and demand grew 10.7% since 2019.

What do businesses pay for power?

10.84¢ per kWh in 2025, 19% below the US average of 13.37¢.

Businesses15th cheapest of 51
Iowa
10.84¢
US
13.37¢

How fast is business power demand growing?

Business power use in Iowa grew 10.7% since 2019, about the US rate (+10.5%).

What makes Iowa's power?

74.5 TWh generated in 2025: wind 59%, coal 26%, natural gas 12%.

Wind59%
Coal26%
Natural gas12%
Solar1.7%
Hydro1.5%

Under 1% each: other biomass, petroleum, other (eia's catch-all).

How much new power is proposed?

1,160 MW of new plants are proposed for 2026–2030, 5% of today's 23,658 MW: solar 67%, wind 22%, other 9%, natural gas 3%.

Solar776 MW
Wind252 MW
Other (EIA's catch-all)99 MW
Natural gas33 MW

Which grid would a Iowa site join, and what are its water and hazard risks?

MISO serves 92.5% of Iowa's power sales; tornadoes and drought cost it most.

Which grid serves Iowa?

MISO serves 92.5% of Iowa's retail power sales.

MISO92.5%
SPP6.4%
No ISO/RTO1.1%

Share of 2025 retail sales, by each utility's balancing authority .

How much water do Iowa's power plants use?

Iowa's power plants took in 416 billion gallons of water in 2024 to cool and returned about 98%; 4.9 billion gallons were used up .

Returned 98.8%Used up 1.2%

Which hazards cost Iowa most?

Tornadoes and drought are Iowa's biggest risks: each rates relatively high against other states .

TornadoRelatively high
DroughtRelatively high
Inland floodingRelatively moderate
Heat waveRelatively moderate
WildfireRelatively low
HurricaneVery low
EarthquakeVery low

Which AI campuses are being built in Iowa, and how big will they be?

Iowa has 4 AI campuses on the list; 2 are being built, 1,394 MW planned in all. The biggest, QTS Cedar Rapids, is planned at 1,133 MW , full size by Nov 2027.

QTS Cedar RapidsLinn County
1,133 MWexpected first online Dec 2026 · full size Nov 2027
Google Cedar RapidsLinn County
261 MWexpected first online Dec 2026 · full size May 2027

Bars: IT power expected at full size . Dates are Epoch AI's own estimates .

Other AI campuses in Iowa: Google Council Bluffs (East), Microsoft Project Osmium.

Campuses without a county on record: Microsoft Project Osmium. They are left off the county map.

Who uses it, and what do they see first?

Lawyers, brokers, site teams, utilities, insurers and investors each start from their own view of Iowa's 99 counties.

Land-use and energy lawyers

Follow counties with data centers, their hearings and FEMA risk.

Polk County24 mapped · risk relatively moderate
Pottawattamie County20 mapped · risk relatively low
Dallas County9 mapped · risk relatively low

6counties with data centers to follow, each with its planning and zoning agendas

Land and industrial brokers

Rank counties by mapped data center buildings, with the power price behind them.

Polk County24
Pottawattamie County20
Dallas County9
Warren County5
Johnson County1

24mapped buildings in Polk County, the most in Iowa

Site selection teams

Shortlist counties by mapped sites, power and risk on one map.

6of 99 counties have mapped data centers

Utilities and power buyers

Follow prices, demand and the grid behind each site. Bars: business power sales since 2019.

Iowa+10.7%
US+10.5%

+10.7%business power sales since 2019, US +10.5%

Insurers and lenders

Bars: how many of the counties with data centers rate high for each hazard.

Drought3 of 6
Tornado3 of 6
Heat wave1 of 6
Hurricane0 of 6

5of 6 counties with mapped data centers rate high for at least one

Investors and analysts

Track AI campuses being built, their owners and users. Bars: MW expected at full size.

QTS Cedar Rapids1,133 MW
Google Cedar Rapids261 MW

1,394MW planned at 2 AI campuses being built

What's inside Iowa Data Center Intelligence?

One app for all 99 Iowa counties, plus hearing alerts and an API. Every screen below is filled with Iowa's real data.

The Intelligence app

Every county's sites, power, water and risk on one screen, with your watchlist.

app.camsahead.com/intelligence/iowa

OverviewMapSitesAI campusesProjectsPowerWaterRiskHearingsAlertsAPI

60mapped buildings

4AI campuses

10.84¢business power, per kWh

+1.3%business demand, last 12 months

Watchlist	Mapped	Flood	Heat	Drought
Polk County	24	moderate	high	high
Pottawattamie County	20	moderate	moderate	moderate
Dallas County	9	low	low	high
Warren County	5	low	low	high
Johnson County	1	moderate	moderate	moderate

Hearings and filings

Follow counties and cases; get the agenda and the record when a hearing is posted.

Hearings · Iowa

Iowa · counties you follow Planning, zoning and utility agendas

Polk County24 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Pottawattamie County20 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Dallas County9 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts
Warren County5 mapped data center buildingsAgenda alerts

Alerts

New projects, stage changes, hearings and data updates for what you follow, by email or in the app.

Alerts · Iowa

Power demandBusiness power sales +1.3% on the year before: 13.6 TWhEIA-861M, 2025-09 to 2026-08
Site riskPolk County (24 mapped buildings) rates Relatively high for heat waveFEMA National Risk Index
AI campus being builtQTS Cedar Rapids: 1,133 MW of IT power expected · first online Dec 2026 · full size Nov 2027Epoch AI

Data API

County, power, risk and project data as JSON for your own tools.

api.camsahead.com

GET /v1/counties/19153

{
  "fips": "19153",
  "name": "Polk County",
  "state": "IA",
  "pop2025": 516546,
  "pop_change_2020_pct": 4.9,
  "density_per_sqmi": 901.9,
  "nri": {
    "risk_rating": "Relatively Moderate",
    "ifld": {
      "rating": "Relatively Moderate",
      "score": 92.1

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    },
    "hwav": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 96.7
    },
    "drgt": {
      "rating": "Relatively High",
      "score": 94.8
    }
  },
  "grid": {
    "rtos": [
      "MISO"
    ],
    "utilities_n": 5
  },
  "state_power": {
    "commercial_cents_kwh": 10.84,
    "us_commercial_cents_kwh": 13.37,
    "as_of": "2025"
  }
}

What does it cost?

Iowa Data Center Intelligence is $390 a month for 3 seats.

Iowa Data Center Intelligence$390 a month

The Intelligence app: every county's sites, power, water and risk
Alerts on new projects, filings and hearings
Reports as web page, PDF and CSV
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Data APIFrom $999 a month

County, power, risk and project data as JSON
Keys for your own tools and models

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Public bodies$4,680 a year

Counties, cities, utilities and co-ops
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What stays open? The map, the county pages and every data center page stay open to everyone.

Sources and updates

How this page was made: CamsAhead writes each page type once, then fills it with this place's data from the sources below.

OpenStreetMap contributors: data center buildings, as of November 6, 2026; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0, free copy on request.
Epoch AI: "AI data centers", CC BY 4.0, retrieved November 7, 2026; changes noted.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-861 (released Oct 2026) and Form EIA-861 2025 detailed data (released Oct 2026): business power prices and sales by state, grid operators and utilities by county; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Forms EIA-923/906/920 (released Sep 2026): power generated by source, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plants proposed for 2026 to 2030; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): Form EIA-860 (released Sep 2026): power plant capacity by state, 2025; retrieved October 31, 2026.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): thermoelectric cooling water data 2024, Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923 (retrieved Oct 2026): power plant cooling water by state.
FEMA: National Risk Index v1.20 (December 2025), NRI_Table_Counties and NRI_Table_States: natural hazard ratings by county and expected annual loss by state; retrieved October 31, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
U.S. Census Bureau: US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 county population estimates (co-est2025-alldata.csv): people by county.

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