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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Apple Waukee Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Apple
- Address and locality
- 2995 W. Hickman Road · Waukee · Dallas County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000081
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- MidAmerican Energy
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 2,000 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $1.3 billion
- Announced jobs
- 50 permanent
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 2017
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- State and local tax incentives for the Waukee data center campus · Iowa (state and City of Waukee) · 2017 · $208 million (as stated) Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Apple's 2017 announcement and subsequent coverage describe only a general intent to 'work with local partners to invest in renewable energy projects from wind and other sources' in Iowa, and MidAmerican Energy building a substation to serve the campus.
What the source record says
Apple data center near the intersection of Hickman Rd and S Avenue, Waukee, Dallas County — announced by Tim Cook in 2017; first building became operational in October 2024 on a 2,000-acre site, a $1.3B investment (AppleInsider). Apple's Feb 2025 newsroom names Iowa among states for continued data-center capacity expansion. No site-specific IT-load MW is disclosed. Coordinates are an approximate geocode; a county-parcel pass could upgrade precision to exact.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024 · source-reported operational
First building operational October 2024 (announced 2017 by Tim Cook); $1.3B, 2,000 acres.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Seven years on, Iowa's Apple data center finally opens — $1.3B, 2,000 acres, first building operational Oct 2024, announced 2017 · AppleInsider
- Apple $500B U.S. investment release — names Iowa among states for continued data-center capacity expansion · Apple Newsroom
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Apple's next US data center will be built in Iowa (Apple Newsroom) · Apple Newsroom
- Apple Files Plans for Long-Delayed Data Center Campus in Iowa (Data Center Frontier)
- IA to give Apple $208M in tax breaks for $1.3B data center · Construction Dive
- Growth of data centers in Iowa · Business Record
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID apple-waukee-ia. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Operator’s own listing
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- Name as listed
- Waukee
- Address as published
- Waukee, IA
Lifecycle status is not published for this listing.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000081
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- 2995 W. Hickman Road, Waukee, IA · Dallas (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Apple
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 2017
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 2,000 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: MidAmerican Energy
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $1.3 billion
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 50 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: State and local tax incentives for the Waukee data center campus · Iowa (state and City of Waukee) · 2017 · $208 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-16
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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