Google data center, Council Bluffs, Iowa
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
- Status
- Proposed
- Owner
- Capacity
- 237 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Pottawattamie County
- State
- Iowa
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- not stated
Location and nearby
Google data center, Council Bluffs, Iowa is on record as proposed in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. A record puts its capacity at 237 MW. 62 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 19 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 0.22 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 0.22 mi Under construction 2.7 mi Permitted 0.30 mi Proposed 4.2 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 0.22 mi approximate
Operating · Pottawattamie County, IA
- 0.30 mi approximate
Permitted · Pottawattamie County, IA
- 1.2 mi approximate
Operating · Pottawattamie County, IA
- 2.7 mi approximate
Google Council Bluffs expansion
Under construction · Pottawattamie County, IA
- 4.1 mi approximate
Operating · Pottawattamie County, IA
- 4.1 mi approximate
Operating · Douglas County, NE
What is on record
Owner
Google Confirmed
The chain
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google first-party locations page lists this site
Google
Google data center locations page (first party) · Sep 9, 2026
Filed by: Google
- Capacity
- 237 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Google · Google Council Bluffs (East)
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: operating|; source government
- Operating Sep 9, 2026 inferred
Google locations page; county-level placement
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
first party, tracker lead. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
3 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Google Council Bluffs (East): https://programs.iowadnr.gov/easyair/Public/EnSuite/Shared/Pages/Util/ServerRptViewer.aspx?sr=/IDNR/Reports/EASY/RPT_Con US-IA | Primary | url=https://programs.iowadnr.gov/easyair/Public/EnSuite/Shared/Pages/Util/ServerRptViewer.aspx?sr=/IDNR/Reports/EASY/RPT_Construction_Application_A_GEN&SUBMISSION_RID=67330&SUB_FORM_RID=148293 | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=google-council-bluffs-east | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
| Google data center locations page (first party) US | Primary | location=Council Bluffs, Iowa | Sep 9, 2026 retrieved by us |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0. Google first-party locations page
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