COPT Defense Van Meter Data Center Shell Site
COPT Defense Properties · Van Meter, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 41.5031, -93.9469
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 1000 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-10
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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Speculative 'shell' land development (REIT-style developer building generic zoned/powered capacity for a future, not-yet-named tenant) — same non-hyperscale-operator category as QTS's already-tracked Iowa campuses. Existing zoning already permits data-center use; site could support ~3.3M sq ft across up to 15 buildings and two substations per COPT's own release. Street address (28004 340th Trail) and 'Van Meter area' / 2027 planned-year framing came from a secondary aggregator (baxtel.com, fetched directly) corroborating the primary COPT press release, which itself doesn't name the town explicitly (says only 'near Des Moines'). Van Meter is in Dallas County, Iowa (general geography, not sourced to a specific citation). No construction start confirmed as of this research. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): COPT Defense's own acquisition press release (dated around late Sept, publicized 2026) covers only the transaction (365 acres, $32M) and describes the site as 'near Des Moines, Iowa' rather than naming Van Meter specifically. No public hearing, local-official statement, resident reaction, or opposition/support is documented in this source. Checked: operator press release only.
Sources and provenance
- COPT Defense Acquires Land for Data Center Shell Development near Des Moines, IA · source retrieved 2026-08-08
- COPT: Des Moines Data Center · source retrieved 2026-08-08
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.