Data centers in Polk County, Iowa
The map shows 21 data center sites in Polk County, Iowa. The operators named are Meta, Microsoft, Cielo Digital Infrastructure, Cologix, Edged and 2 others. 2 sites state a capacity, 800 MW in all.
Sites
- Meta Altoona: Meta, 400 MW
- Microsoft West Des Moines: Microsoft, 400 MW
- Aureon
- Cielo Des Moines Data Center: Cielo Digital Infrastructure
- DSM1: Cologix
- Edged Des Moines: Edged
- Facebook Altoona Data Center 1: Meta
- Facebook Altoona Data Center 2: Meta
- Facebook Altoona Data Center 3: Meta
- Facebook Altoona Data Center 4: Meta
- Facebook Altoona Data Center 5: Meta
- InfoBunker
- Lightedge Des Moines 2: LightEdge Solutions
- Meta
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Microsoft
- Microsoft
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Project Alluvion: Microsoft
- Microsoft Project Ginger East: Microsoft
Operators
- Meta: 8 sites
- Microsoft: 7 sites
- Cielo Digital Infrastructure: 1 site
- Cologix: 1 site
- Edged: 1 site
- InfoBunker: 1 site
- LightEdge Solutions: 1 site
Power plants in Polk County
Polk County has 8 power plants, with 935 MW of capacity: natural gas 919 MW, biomass 14 MW, oil 2 MW.
- Greater Des Moines: Natural gas, 504 MW
- Pleasant Hill: Natural gas, 154 MW
- Sycamore (IA): Natural gas, 141 MW
- River Hills: Natural gas, 113 MW
- Metro Methane Recovery Facility: Biomass, 11 MW
- Archer Daniels Midland Des Moines: Natural gas, 8 MW
- Des Moines Wastewater Reclamation Fac: Biomass, 3 MW
- Anderson Erickson: Oil, 2 MW
Other large power plants within 50 km
- Ames Electric Services Power Plant: Natural gas, 109 MW, 47 km away, Iowa
- Indianola: Oil, 42 MW, 27 km away, Iowa
- Ames GT: Oil, 42 MW, 47 km away, Iowa
- Iowa State University: Natural gas, 40 MW, 47 km away, Iowa
- 30 MW Iowa DG Portfolio: Wind, 30 MW, 47 km away, Iowa
- Winterset: Oil, 18 MW, 45 km away, Iowa
- NCAH Central Utility Plant: Oil, 14 MW, 49 km away, Iowa
- AG Land 4: Wind, 10 MW, 39 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)