QTS Cedar Rapids Data Center Campus
QTS Data Centers · Cedar Rapids, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- Not published
- Coordinates
- 41.932, -91.718
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Alliant Energy
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- 1050 MW
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-22
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
- Under construction
Ground broken on first building; April 2026 site tour attended by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright confirmed active construction
Underlying source - Permitted
Cedar Rapids City Council approved development agreement with QTS Cedar Rapids LLC on January 28, 2025
Underlying source
Source notes
Coordinates approximate for Big Cedar Industrial Center; parcel is adjacent to Google's campus in the same 1,391-acre industrial park. $10B investment is total planned across 7 phases over up to 25 years; minimum $250M per phase, each requiring a 300,000 sq ft building. 7 buildings planned at full build-out. Permanent jobs figure is minimum per phase. QTS Co-CEO Tag Greason stated the completed seven-building campus will ultimately draw about 1,050 MW of power from Alliant Energy (planned, full build-out). QTS Data Centers is owned by Blackstone (2021 take-private).
Alliant Energy serves Big Cedar Industrial Center; QTS also secured permits for temporary modular generator units for early testing near Eastern Iowa Airport
Sources and provenance
- City of Cedar Rapids, Alliant Energy, and QTS Collaborate on New Data Center Campus · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- QTS breaks ground on data center campus in Iowa · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gets Approval for Two Major Data Center Investments by Google and QTS · source retrieved 2026-07-06
- Data center project pitched as win for jobs, rates in Iowa (QTS Co-CEO: campus will ultimately use about 1,050 megawatts) · source retrieved 2026-07-18
- Iowa communities grapple with regulating data centers as development spreads · 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.