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Reported geography
Source-reported location for PathOne Ida County Data Center (Galva site).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- PathOne Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Galva · Ida County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Outside an official metropolitan boundary
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001107
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
- Closed-loop
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- Announced
- 11 August 2026
Provider notes
Water. Company described a closed-loop water system using 350,000-700,000 gallons annually (35,000-70,000 gallons per MW per year), with water not returning to the local ecosystem.
Community. Ida County enacted a data center moratorium effective June 30, 2026. Residents packed informational meetings in Ida Grove and Arthur in August 2026 with questions on noise, electricity use, fire suppression and property taxes; PathOne is forming a community advisory council and has urged the county to write strong rules first.
What the source record says
PathOne described a 10-25 MW facility of about 40,000 sq ft on 5-25 acres costing $100-150 million; because those are ranges rather than single figures, capacityMw, landAcres and investmentUsd are deliberately left unset. This record is placed at the Galva option (the shuttered Quad County ethanol plant, which PathOne named specifically); the alternative site near Arthur is about 20 km south and no selection has been made. Distinct from the tracked PathOne Sioux County (Hull) site.
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
- 2026-08-11 · source-reported proposed
PathOne presented early plans for a small-scale data center to the Ida County Board of Supervisors, naming two industrial-zoned candidate sites — the shuttered Quad County ethanol plant near Galva and a site near Arthur. No site has been selected and no application has been filed.
Sources and attribution
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- Ida County data center proposal: Path One presents plans, urges strong county rules · KTIV
- Arthur residents question PathOne's data center plans · KTIV
- Iowa communities grapple with regulating data centers as development spreads · Business Record
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID pathone-ida-county-galva-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-001107
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
- Galva, IA · Ida County (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: PathOne Data Centers
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: 11 August 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-08-11 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
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: 2026-09-16
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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