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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Wahawk Power Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Wahawk Power, LLC
- Address and locality
- North of 570 West Shaulis Road, South Waterloo Business Park · Waterloo · Black Hawk County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- 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-001558
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
- 12 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- Announced
- 15 December 2025
Provider notes
Community. Protests at city hall and a push for a data-center moratorium followed the December 2025 development agreement; opponents cite water, power, noise and economic-benefit concerns.
What the source record says
80,000 sq ft edge/colocation data center proposed on a 12-acre city-owned parcel (with a right to purchase 10-12 more acres within 5 years) sold to the developer for $1; Waterloo City Council approved a development agreement Dec 15, 2025, but Planning Commission and Council site-plan approval were still pending as of June 2026, and the Council is weighing a 3-month moratorium (discussion set for September 2026) amid resident opposition.
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
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.
- Wahawk Power Data Center — 80,000 SF, $6M Value in South Waterloo Business Park · Hottle Real Estate
- Waterloo data center plan sparks protest at city hall · KWWL
- City of Waterloo considering three-month data center moratorium · KCRG
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID wahawk-power-waterloo-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-001558
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
- North of 570 West Shaulis Road, South Waterloo Business Park, Waterloo, IA · Black Hawk (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Wahawk Power, LLC
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: 15 December 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 12 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: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-08-21
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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