Google Council Bluffs Data Center
Google · Council Bluffs, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 41.167368, -95.792975
- Serving utility, source-reported
- MidAmerican Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- 407 MW
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-21
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
Operational since 2007 per Google's own Iowa location page; multi-building campus, actively expanding.
Underlying source
Source notes
Google's flagship Iowa data center in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County — operational since 2007, heavily expanded across multiple buildings (the Southlands campus on Bunge Ave among them). Distinct from Google's tracked Cedar Rapids campus and from the separate proposed Google/Tenaska Nebraska project. Per Google's own location page, Google has invested $20B+ across Iowa since 2007 (Council Bluffs + Cedar Rapids combined — not a site-specific figure). No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of a disclosed campus address; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
Google signed a contract with MidAmerican Energy for up to 407 MW of wind energy (tracked via RECs from MidAmerican's Wind VIII program) specifically to supply the Council Bluffs data center campus, one of Google's largest renewable commitments at the time.
Sources and provenance
- Google Iowa — official location page: Council Bluffs operational since 2007, multi-building campus · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · source retrieved 2026-07-23
- Google Inc partners with MidAmerican Energy to purchase 407 MW wind · source retrieved 2026-09-21
- Google's Iowa Data Center Buys 407 MW of RECs · source retrieved 2026-07-24
- Data Center Knowledge — Iowa officials approve tax breaks for Google data center expansion · source retrieved 2026-07-25
- Data centers consume massive amounts of water - companies rarely tell the public exactly how much · source retrieved 2026-08-14
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.