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Reported geography
Source-reported location for LightEdge Ames Edge Colocation Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- LightEdge Solutions
- Address and locality
- Aviation Way · Ames · Story County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Ames, IA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 25 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000864
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.
- Cooling
- Air
- Land area
- 10.86 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
Provider notes
Water. Air-cooled using chillers and fans rather than evaporative systems; LightEdge's proposal states approximately 0 gallons per day of cooling water, and cites its Altoona facility's 1,267 gallons a day — 5 percent of Iowa's 25,000-gallon permit threshold — as the reference case.
Community. The proposal would lease city-owned airport land, which put it in front of the council and the public: a first reading on 2026-06-23, a public listening session on 2026-06-30, and a decision point set for the 2026-07-28 council meeting. Residents organised against it, and the council acknowledged the proposal raises electrical capacity, transmission and distribution, and utility rate questions for Ames Electric Services. Reported estimates put a required dedicated substation at about $12 million. …
What the source record says
Proposed single-storey edge colocation facility on roughly 10.86 acres of Ames airport land on Aviation Way, in a Planned Industrial zone, adjacent to the Ames Regional Airport and the ISU Research Park. Phased electrical demand of 3 MW in phase one, 6 MW in phase two, and as much as 25 MW at full buildout over roughly ten years — reported locally as about a 15 percent increase in the city's total consumption. LightEdge explicitly rules out AI or hyperscale use: asked whether it would house AI servers, its proposal answers 'No. This is edge colocation.' aiClassification is therefore omitted. Reported at roughly 100,000 sq ft in local coverage, but the operator's own page does not state a square footage, so it is not recorded. Distinct site from the tracked LightEdge Altoona facility.
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
- 2026-06-23 · source-reported proposed
Ames City Council first reading on the proposal to lease city airport land to LightEdge; decision point scheduled for 2026-07-28.
Sources and attribution
- Ames Data Center Proposal — LightEdge edge colocation project page · LightEdge Solutions
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID lightedge-ames-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-000864
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Aviation Way, Ames, IA · Story (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: LightEdge Solutions
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.
- Status history: 2026-06-23 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 10.86 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 25 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.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Air
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-21
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Not yet recorded here: 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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