Data Center Registry
Karis Dubuque County Data Center
Dubuque County County, Iowa
Karis Dubuque County Data Center is a proposed data center in Iowa (Dubuque County County), operated by Karis. The public record puts it at announced May 2026. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Karis
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Dubuque County County, IA
- Coordinates
- 42.3880, -90.6700 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- May 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Contested
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- May 16, 2026ProposedKaris filed an incomplete rezoning application with the Dubuque County zoning department for farmland near Olde Davenport Road between Laudeville and Feeney roads, east of Dubuque Regional Airport; the company says discussions have been preliminary and no final decision to proceed has been made. Source: Telegraph Herald
Opposition and litigation at this site
Yes. Karis Dubuque County Data Center in Dubuque County County, Iowa is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. The proposal prompted Dubuque County supervisors to enact a one-year data center moratorium; the city held public input sessions in July 2026 and both city and county began drafting data center ordinances.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.
The proposal prompted Dubuque County supervisors to enact a one-year data center moratorium; the city held public input sessions in July 2026 and both city and county began drafting data center ordinances.
Power and water
Karis told the City of Dubuque a closed-loop cooling system would need up to 3 million gallons for its initial charge and up to 250,000 gallons annually to maintain.
Notes on the record
Coordinates are approximate: the point sits on the Olde Davenport Road corridor between Feeney Road and Laudeville Road in unincorporated Dubuque County, the location described in reporting. No parcel has been identified publicly and no formal site plan or development agreement has been presented. Acreage, capacity, investment and job figures were not disclosed by the company.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Simple Mining Cascade (Dubuque County) · Cascade · Simple Mining19 mi · Proposed
- Cassville Data Center Campus (Undisclosed Developer) · Cassville · Undisclosed (major tech company, NDA not signed)28 mi · Cancelled · Opposed
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Karis Dubuque County Data Center in Dubuque County County, Iowa?
Yes. Karis Dubuque County Data Center in Dubuque County County, Iowa is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. The proposal prompted Dubuque County supervisors to enact a one-year data center moratorium; the city held public input sessions in July 2026 and both city and county began drafting data center ordinances.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Karis Dubuque County Data Center?
No lawsuit over Karis Dubuque County Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 16, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Karis Dubuque County Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Karis Dubuque County Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Karis Dubuque County Data Center, and how big is it?
Karis is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Karis Dubuque County Data Center," updated September 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/karis-dubuque-county-ia.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/karis-dubuque-county-ia, retrieved October 1, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Company seeking Dubuque County data center land revealed · Telegraph Herald · retrieved September 16, 2026
- 2.Potential Dubuque data center could require 3 million gallons of water, city seeks public input · KCRG-TV9 · retrieved September 16, 2026
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