Data centers in Linn County, Iowa
The map shows 5 data center sites in Linn County, Iowa. The operators named are Google, QTS and Enseva. 2 sites state a capacity, 1.2 GW in all.
Sites
- QTS Cedar Rapids: QTS, 616 MW
- Google Cedar Rapids: Google, 600 MW
- Cedar Rapids Data Center: Google
- Hiawatha: Enseva
- QTS: Big Cedar Industrial Center: QTS
Operators
- Google: 2 sites
- QTS: 2 sites
- Enseva: 1 site
Power plants in Linn County
Linn County has 12 power plants, with 685 MW of capacity: coal 295 MW, solar 205 MW, natural gas 141 MW.
- Archer Daniels Midland Cedar Rapids: Coal, 295 MW
- Pleasant Creek Unit 2: Solar, 150 MW
- Prairie Creek: Natural gas, 141 MW
- Pleasant Creek Unit 1: Solar, 50 MW
- Alliant SBD 9106 Rockwell CR: Oil, 16 MW
- Alliant SBD0201 Ingredion: Oil, 6 MW
- Alliant SBD 8602 Marion Sub: Oil, 6 MW
- Alliant SBD 9203 Profol: Oil, 6 MW
- Deer Run Battery: Battery storage, 5 MW
- Cedar Rapids Community Solar: Solar, 5 MW
Other large power plants within 50 km
- Diamond Trail Wind Farm: Wind, 250 MW, 48 km away, Iowa
- Coralville GT: Natural gas, 63 MW, 33 km away, Iowa
- University of Iowa Main Power Plant: Natural gas, 41 MW, 35 km away, Iowa
- Amana Society Service Company: Oil, 22 MW, 22 km away, Iowa
- Vinton: Natural gas, 17 MW, 35 km away, Iowa
- Farmers Electric Cooperative - Kalona: Oil, 6 MW, 42 km away, Iowa
- Alliant SBD 9403 Aegon DC: Oil, 4 MW, 6 km away, Iowa
- Johnson County Hills Solar: Solar, 3 MW, 44 km away, Iowa
Sources
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)