CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Iowa is emerging as a national heavyweight in data centers. A new report says the state is on track to triple its data center operations by 2031.
The Common Sense Institute study finds companies have already invested about $15 billion dollars into the state’s economy building and equipping data centers across Iowa, and have announced another $38 billion through 2031.
A big share of that activity is clustered within Linn County, with QTS and Google data centers in development in Cedar Rapids, and another Google data center proposed in Palo…