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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Salix Data Center Site (Midwest Capital Group).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Midwest Capital Group (MidAmerican Energy)
- Address and locality
- Salix · Woodbury County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
- 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-001289
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
- 900 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: litigation
- Announced
- 11 June 2026
Provider notes
Energy. MidAmerican Energy affiliate Midwest Capital Group acquired options on the property and said it plans to transfer them to a future electric customer for development.
Community. Woodbury County supervisors passed a one-year data center moratorium on 2026-06-23, but the site sits inside Salix city limits and is not covered by it. A petition against the facility drew more than 540 signatures. Woodbury County residents sued the City of Salix in August 2026 asking a court to void the annexation as defective, alleging four of five applications covered land not adjoining city borders, no required county consultation, no 14-day written notice to adjacent landowners, and no proper boundary maps. …
What the source record says
About 900 acres of farmland northeast of Salix, voluntarily annexed from Woodbury County by the Salix City Council in April 2026, being considered for a data center campus. Google confirmed on 2026-08-03 that it is exploring a future data center in the Salix area; Google said it will not pursue local real estate property tax abatements or rebates. MidAmerican stressed 'This is not a project announcement, development agreement or request for approval.' No investment, capacity or building count has been published.
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
- 2026-08-03 · source-reported proposed
Google confirmed it is exploring a data center in the Salix area on land where MidAmerican affiliate Midwest Capital Group holds options.
Sources and attribution
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- Google is considering a data center in Salix, IA · KTIV
- Woodbury County landowners looking to void annexation of 900 acres near Salix · KTIV
- Woodbury County moves to pause data center projects for 1 year · Iowa Public Radio
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID salix-data-center-site-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-001289
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
- Salix, IA · Woodbury (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Midwest Capital Group (MidAmerican Energy)
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 June 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-08-03 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 900 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
- Community response: Provider label: litigation
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-14
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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