Google · Council Bluffs, Iowa

Google Council Bluffs (East)

284MW

The power of 230,000 US homes.

Drawing power since Nov 2024.

Capital cost
$9.0B
Chips
TPU v5e, TPU v6e, TPU v5p, TPU v7
Users
Google DeepMind (unconfirmed)
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Power over time

facility power · 6 milestones
Every milestone
  1. 6 Sep 2022 — Land clearing begins for east buildings
  2. 19 Nov 2024 95 MW Building 1 is operational. Google Earth shows Building 1 had all backup generators and cooling towers installed by the end of August, but construction work was ongoing and there were almost no cars parked. By February 2025, Google Earth shows no construction work and many cars. So our best guess is in the middle, in November 2024. Building 3 roof is complete.
  3. 15 Jun 2025 190 MW Building 2 is operational. Assuming it takes 3 months after generators and cooling towers are finished, similar to Building 1.
  4. 19 Jul 2025 190 MW Land clearing begins in the southwest, suggesting more buildings are planned.
  5. 11 Jan 2026 190 MW Building 3 has all 34 backup generators installed and 4 cooling towers installed, with 3 more cooling towers under construction. There are gaps between cooling towers suggesting that more could be added. Buildings 1 and 2 are running close to full capacity, given that water vapor is coming out of 5 of 7 cooling towers for each building. The land cleared in the southwest appears to be shaped for two more similar buildings, with notches for substations.
  6. 7 Jul 2026 284 MW Building 3 is operational. 7 cooling towers were finally installed despite being more spread out compared to the first two buildings. Cooling towers models vary slightly between buildings. Ground clearing to the southwest seems to be setting up for two more buildings.

Gas made 37% of the power on this site's grid

net generation by fuel · Oct 2025 to Sep 2026

Midcontinent Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. MISO · balancing authority

  1. Gas 37%
  2. Coal 26%
  3. Nuclear 14%
  4. Wind 15%
  5. Solar 6%
  6. Hydro 1%
  7. Other 1%

The grid of the utilities that serve Pottawattamie County, IA. Each grid is a balancing authority. Generation only; imports are excluded. Every grid behind an AI site.

No new plant is planned in Pottawattamie County

power plants in Pottawattamie County · EIA-860M, September 2026

In service in Pottawattamie County today: 1.8 GW. Since January 2023: 0 MW added, 0 MW retired. A plant in the same county does not mean it feeds the site. Power plants near every AI site.

Sources

selected by Epoch AI
  1. Construction permit application form with site address
  2. Construction permit application form with backup generator data

Data: Epoch AI, “AI data centers”, CC BY 4.0, retrieved 22 Oct 2026. Facility power adds cooling and other overhead to the IT power the servers draw. Placed at the centre of Council Bluffs. Grid: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930), public domain, retrieved 16 Oct 2026; utilities by county from Form EIA-861 and the U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, public domain. Power plants: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-860M, public domain, inventory as of September 2026. All sources.