Google has signed a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with NextEra Energy to fund the restart of Iowa's 615 MW Duane Arnold Energy Center (DAEC) nuclear plant, which was decommissioned in 2020 after its cooling towers were damaged and repairs deemed uneconomical. The plant, operational since 1975, is expected to resume by 2029 (potentially as early as Q1 2028 per FERC filings), with NextEra acquiring full ownership and gaining grid reconnection approval in September 2025.
This carbon-free power will primarily support Google's proposed development of up to six AI data centers in unincorporated areas of Linn County near the site. The company is also funding a local water usage study to assess the project's environmental impact, joining other tech giants in leveraging nuclear energy for round-the-clock AI and cloud infrastructure demands.
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The Involta data center in Marion, Iowa is a 19,000-square-foot state-of-the-art colocation facility with 10,000 square feet of conditioned data center space, with an additional 40,000 square feet of expansion potential.
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Google is planning to develop a $576 million data center campus along 76th Avenue SW and Edgewood Road SW in the Big Cedar Industrial Center. The site will spread out over an area of 1,396 acres.
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This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
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This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
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| NN milesInterested in this information?Contact us | QTS: CDR1 DC1 |
QTS is developing a 612-acre data center campus along 76th Avenue SW within the Big Cedar Industrial Center.
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This facility will be part of Google's Cedar Rapids campus in Iowa.
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In 2017, Google announced a commitment to power the company and its data centers entirely on renewable energy. In 2018, Google reached the 100% of their goal.
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Finnish regulators have ordered a halt to work at two planned Google data centers after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared before mandatory environmental impact assessments were completed, the BBC reported. The order covers the company's project sites in Muhos and Kajaani, both in the...
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October 08, 2026 Google
Google’s planned data centers in Finland are under investigation after around 300 hectares of forest were reportedly cleared before environmental assessments were completed. Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Agency has requested reports from local authorities and project manager Tuike Finland...
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October 07, 2026 Google
Google will buy 890 MW of new nuclear output from Constellation Energy under a 20-year power purchase agreement covering 11 reactors across the PJM Interconnection, the companies announced on Oct. 6. Constellation will spend more than $4.3 billion upgrading reactors in Illinois, Pennsylvania and...
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Google’s former head of global data center design and construction, John M. Wilson, has joined Anthropic as a member of technical staff, leading EMEA capacity delivery after six years at Google. "Leading global infrastructure delivery across data centers and subsea programs taught me two enduring...
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Crusoe is the developer behind Google's data center campus under construction in Armstrong County, Texas, the company said on Sept. 28. The site sits outside Amarillo, and it pairs with 531 megawatts of adjacent West Texas wind, a design that puts generation rather than land at the center of the...
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