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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Meta Davenport Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Meta
- Address and locality
- Davenport · Scott County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 14 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000929
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
- 328 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $800 million
- Announced jobs
- 35 permanent
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- Announced
- 21 May 2024
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- City of Davenport 20-year, 60 percent property tax exemption (approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority board) · City of Davenport · 2024 · $161 million (as stated) Open cited source →
Provider notes
Community. Davenport estimates it would receive $50.6 million more in property tax revenue than if the data center were not built. Local environmental concerns have been raised, and the parcel sitting empty well past the original groundbreaking target has itself become a local story.
What the source record says
328-acre parcel at the northwest corner of Hillandale Road and Enterprise Way in northwest Davenport, held through Vemerald LLC, described in a state news release as a wholly owned subsidiary of Meta Platforms, Inc. State board documents from May 2024 said Meta would evaluate the parcel until Q1 2025, break ground by Q4 2025 and complete the data center by end of 2027. As of March 2026 the land had been purchased but construction had not started, so status is held at proposed rather than under_construction. Job count is 35 at $28.76/hour or more per state board documents; Davenport city documents put it at 50. Distinct site from the tracked Meta Altoona campus.
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
- 2024-05-21 · source-reported proposed
Iowa Economic Development Authority board signed off on Davenport's 20-year, 60 percent property tax exemption; board documents named Meta as the company behind the site.
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.
- Meta behind plans for latest Iowa data center · The Gazette
- More than a house, less than a grocery store: how much electricity QCA data centers use (reports Meta's 328 acres purchased, construction not started) · KWQC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID meta-davenport-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).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
State or local registry record
What a state or local government record says naming this company in this city (no street is given in the record). The record is cited, not republished. It does not establish that a data center is operating, its capacity, or its owner or operator unless the record says that role. It is not added to the counts on this page.
Reviewed company relationship and city only. IEDA explicitly identifies Vemerald as a wholly owned subsidiary of Meta Platforms and names the proposed data-center project in Davenport. Application approval does not establish construction or operation. No street or particular building is established; this is additional government evidence, not a new facility.
Meta
- Publishing agency
- Iowa Economic Development Authority
- Record type
- state incentive award list
- Evidence scope
- IEDA identifies Vemerald as a wholly owned subsidiary of Meta Platforms and describes an approved application for a proposed data center in Davenport. This name-and-city association establishes no street, construction start or operating status.
- Named in the record
- Vemerald
- Location precision
- Davenport only
What this record does not establish
- That a permit, certification, tax status, or application means an operating data center.
- Current IT capacity, utility load, or generation capacity.
- Who operates the site. A company named in the record is not the operator unless the record says so.
- Who owns the site.
- Cooling redundancy. Mentioned equipment is not a design rating.
- Whether the record covers one building, a campus, or a suite, beyond the unit label the record itself uses.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000929
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
- Davenport, IA · Scott (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Meta
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: 21 May 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2024-05-21 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 328 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.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $800 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 35 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
- Incentive reported by the source: City of Davenport 20-year, 60 percent property tax exemption (approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority board) · City of Davenport · 2024 · $161 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-14
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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