CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (IOWA’S NEWS NOW) — Another data center project is starting in Cedar Rapids, but on a smaller scale that two others already under construction.
A new building permit granted by the city on June 22 shows “CLOP Cedar Rapids LLC” will own the 98,000 square-foot facility at 1515 33rd Avenue SW, an area just north of Highway 30 and west of I-380. CLOP is a branch of Oppidan, a Minnesota-based property development firm that built a similar project in Des Moines that opened in 2024. Permit data also shows the project’s valuation is around $101.5 million, making it far smaller that the ones from QTS ($1.75 billion) and Google ($576 million) at the Big Cedar Industrial Center.
Cedar Rapids Mayor Tiffany O’Donnell tells Iowa’s News Now that the new project has “zero city incentives” included and is being built at a site already zoned for industrial projects. The Linn County Board of Supervisors passed an 18-month moratorium on new data center projects in unincorporated parts of the county in late June. O’Donnell also compares the project to existing data centers in Hiawatha and Marion…