Data Center Registry
Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa · All 2 Oppidan sites
Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center is a permitted data center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Linn County), operated by Oppidan. The public record puts it at announced July 8, 2026, 10 MW planned, a reported $100 million investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.
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Facility record
Permitted
- Operator
- Oppidan
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 1515 33rd Avenue SW, Cedar Rapids, Linn County, IA, 52404
- Coordinates
- 41.9439, -91.6737 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 10 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $100 million
- Announced
- July 8, 2026
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Closed loop
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- 15 permanent; 250 construction
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- Mixed reception
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
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.
- July 8, 2026PermittedCedar Rapids confirmed the project after building permits were filed; the site has been zoned light industrial since the early 2000s, so a data center is a permitted use and no public hearing is required. Source: KCRG-TV9
Opposition and litigation at this site
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell voiced support (2026-07-08), framing data centers as consistent with the city's industrial identity.
How the community has taken it
Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.
Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell voiced support (2026-07-08), framing data centers as consistent with the city's industrial identity. However, neighboring/overlapping Linn County had recently adopted a temporary moratorium on data centers -- Cedar Rapids itself is not applying that moratorium here because the site is already zoned for light-industrial use (permitted since the early 2000s), so this specific project proceeds despite county-level backlash driving the moratorium elsewhere. No direct opposition testimony to THIS project was found.
Power and water
The Gazette reports the project uses a closed-loop water cooling system.
Notes on the record
Just north of Highway 30 on the southwest side. Over 98,000 sq ft, no city incentives, construction expected to start in fall 2026 or early spring 2027 depending on equipment availability. Permit documents name the applicant entity as CLOP Cedar Rapids, IA LLC. The Gazette reports the facility is intended for networking, signal boosting and storage rather than AI training or inference, so no aiClassification value is recorded, the existing enum cannot express 'assessed, not AI.' Oppidan built a comparable 60,000 sq ft, 5 MW facility in Des Moines in 2024, which is tracked separately.
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.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Land area
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- 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.
- 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.
- QTS Cedar Rapids Data Center Campus · Cedar Rapids · QTS Data Centers2 mi · Under construction · 1.1 GW · Supported
- Google Cedar Rapids Data Center Campus · Cedar Rapids · Google3 mi · Under construction · Supported
- Google Palo Data Center Campus · Palo · Google10 mi · Proposed · Contested
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center in Cedar Rapids?
Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center in Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O'Donnell voiced support (2026-07-08), framing data centers as consistent with the city's industrial identity.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center?
No lawsuit over Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 10, 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 Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center use?
No water withdrawal figure for Oppidan Cedar Rapids 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 Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center, and how big is it?
Oppidan is the operator on record. We hold 2 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 10 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Oppidan Cedar Rapids Data Center," updated September 10, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/oppidan-cedar-rapids-ia.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/oppidan-cedar-rapids-ia, retrieved September 14, 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.Cedar Rapids confirms third data center planned for southwest side · KCRG-TV9 · retrieved September 4, 2026
- 2.Another data center is in the works for Cedar Rapids · The Gazette · retrieved September 4, 2026
- 3.Cedar Rapids confirms third data center planned for southwest side · retrieved September 10, 2026
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