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Reported geography
Source-reported location for COPT Defense Van Meter Data Center Shell Site.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- COPT Defense Properties
- Address and locality
- Van Meter · Dallas County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000311
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.
- Land area
- 365 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $32 million
- Announced
- September 2024
What the source record says
Speculative 'shell' land development (REIT-style developer building generic zoned/powered capacity for a future, not-yet-named tenant) — same non-hyperscale-operator category as QTS's already-tracked Iowa campuses. Existing zoning already permits data-center use; site could support ~3.3M sq ft across up to 15 buildings and two substations per COPT's own release. Street address (28004 340th Trail) and 'Van Meter area' / 2027 planned-year framing came from a secondary aggregator (baxtel.com, fetched directly) corroborating the primary COPT press release, which itself doesn't name the town explicitly (says only 'near Des Moines'). Van Meter is in Dallas County, Iowa (general geography, not sourced to a specific citation). No construction start confirmed as of this research. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): COPT Defense's own acquisition press release (dated around late Sept, publicized 2026) covers only the transaction (365 acres, $32M) and describes the site as 'near Des Moines, Iowa' rather than naming Van Meter specifically. No public hearing, local-official statement, resident reaction, or opposition/support is documented in this source. Checked: operator press release only.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
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- COPT Defense Acquires Land for Data Center Shell Development near Des Moines, IA · COPT Defense Properties (investor relations)
- COPT: Des Moines Data Center · Baxtel
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID copt-defense-properties-van-meter-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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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000311
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.
Location and precision
- Van Meter, IA · Dallas (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: COPT Defense Properties
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: September 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 365 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $32 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-10
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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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