Mega-Project Central Iowa
1.0 GW
Power Capacity
3.30M sq ft
Total Area
1
Sponsors
Sponsors & Partners
COPT Defense Properties
Project Timeline
Announced
2024-10
Current canonical record
365 acres, 15 building campus, 1GW power capacity, approximately 3.3M sq ft
Land purchased for $24.6M in October 2024. Site north of Raccoon River and west of R Avenue. Built out for existing Fortune 100 cloud computing tenant. COPT is a REIT based in Columbia, MD specializing in federal government and defense contractor facilities. This is second major data center project in Van Meter after Microsoft.; QA 2026-07-19: Normalized Dallas County and removed an inapplicable investment-model annotation.
Record provenance
This page is generated from the reviewed project database snapshot. The record was last reviewed on 2026-07-19. Blank fields mean the value was not publicly disclosed or could not be reconciled safely; they do not mean zero.