Planned
Colocation
Liquid cooling
Tier III

QTS Cedar Rapids

QTS (Blackstone) · Cedar Rapids

QTS Cedar Rapids facility
QTS · Source
Planned IT
1 GW
Free to lease
1 GW
$ / kW·mo
$52
White space
2M ft²

Inventory

0% occupied

Power

1 GWlive

1 GW to lease · 0 MW in use

White space

2M ft²total

2M ft² free · — occupied

186k m² · 186k m² free

Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.

Power

IT live—
Free to lease1 GW
Utility feed—
Campus / planned1 GW

Power cost

$52/kW·mo

6.2¢ industrial · 7.1¢ after PUE 1.15

Per MW·year
$625k
This site · 1 GW
$625M/yr
120 kW rack
$6,246/mo
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

1.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $302M/yr less.

MidAmerican / MISO · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy
2N
Opened
2028
Renewable match
80%
Rack density
120 kW
PUE
1.151.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source
MidAmerican Energy, wind-heavy Iowa grid.

Cooling

Plant

Direct-to-chip

Liquid

Deployed

Rack density

120 kW

H100-eq

—

WUE

—

Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.

Projected late-2027 / 2028 AI campus with campus-scale direct-to-chip liquid cooling.

Network carriers

6

On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.

Clouds

4

Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Cedar Rapids, IA

41.978°, -91.666° · North America

Tenants / users

Hyperscale AI

Notes

Epoch AI flags Cedar Rapids as a future record-scale site alongside Meta Hyperion.

Operator site

Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.