Apple Waukee Data Center
Apple · Waukee, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 2995 W. Hickman Road
- Coordinates
- 41.6193799, -93.9258365
- Serving utility, source-reported
- MidAmerican Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-16
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
- Operational
First building operational October 2024 (announced 2017 by Tim Cook); $1.3B, 2,000 acres.
Underlying source
Source notes
Apple data center near the intersection of Hickman Rd and S Avenue, Waukee, Dallas County — announced by Tim Cook in 2017; first building became operational in October 2024 on a 2,000-acre site, a $1.3B investment (AppleInsider). Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names Iowa among states for continued data-center capacity expansion. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
Apple's 2017 announcement and subsequent coverage describe only a general intent to 'work with local partners to invest in renewable energy projects from wind and other sources' in Iowa, and MidAmerican Energy building a substation to serve the campus.
Sources and provenance
- Seven years on, Iowa's Apple data center finally opens — $1.3B, 2,000 acres, first building operational Oct 2024, announced 2017 · source retrieved 2026-07-19
- Apple $500B U.S. investment release — names Iowa among states for continued data-center capacity expansion · source retrieved 2026-07-19
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
- Apple's next US data center will be built in Iowa (Apple Newsroom) · source retrieved 2026-08-14
- Apple Files Plans for Long-Delayed Data Center Campus in Iowa (Data Center Frontier) · source retrieved 2026-07-24
- IA to give Apple $208M in tax breaks for $1.3B data center · source retrieved 2026-08-14
- Growth of data centers in Iowa · source retrieved 2026-09-16
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.