QTS Cedar Rapids (Big Cedar)
AI data center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, operated by QTS Data Centers.
A Blackstone-owned QTS campus at Big Cedar Industrial Center near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with seven buildings and a 616 MW MISO load request. SemiAnalysis reports Meta as the tenant; QTS has not confirmed.
- Live power
- —
- Planned power
- 1,587MW 4
- Status
- Under construction
- Accelerators
- —
Power: what each source says
MISO load announcement: 616 MW for 'SNA LLC' in Cedar Rapids. QTS (July 2025): phase 1 late 2026, phase 2 late 2027. Epoch AI projects ~1.13 GW IT / 1.59 GW facility after 7 buildings (estimate); satellite review 2026-10-23: buildings 1-3 commissioning.
Figures labelled Epoch AI are estimates from satellite imagery, permits and filings. Company figures come from the operator, owner or its filings. IT power is what the servers draw; in Epoch AI’s figures for these campuses it runs about 15–35% below total facility power.
Tenants
Reported Meta (reported by SemiAnalysis, not confirmed)
“Reported” means a press outlet or Epoch AI named the tenant and neither the operator nor the tenant has confirmed it. The outlet is named in brackets and listed under sources.
Campus facts
- Operator
- QTS Data Centers 1
- Owner / developer
- QTS Data Centers (Blackstone) 1
- City
- Cedar Rapids 1
- State / region
- Iowa 1
- Country
- United States 1
- First power
- 2026 1
- Chips
- Not published
- GPUs / accelerators
- Not published
- Cooling
- Not published
- Power source
- grid (Alliant Energy) 1
- Coordinates
- 41.98° N, 91.67° W (town level)
- Verified
Sources
- Corridor Business Journal: scope of QTS project in Cedar Rapids accessed 2026-11-09
- MISO new load announcements accessed 2026-11-09
- SemiAnalysis: Meta compute accessed 2026-11-09
- Epoch AI, AI data centers dataset (CC-BY 4.0, updated 2026-11-06) (licence: CC BY 4.0) accessed 2026-11-09