Building 3 is the four-story data center on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, about 2 million sq ft gross in three sections. Google announced it in April 2015 as a $1 billion investment and finished the third section around 2021. A central utility plant with cooling towers and two storage tanks serves it.
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Building 7 is a data center under construction on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Iowa DNR issued its generator permits in March 2026.
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Building 2 on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa: seven connected two-story halls built in 2013 to 2015.
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Building 8 is a planned data center on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Iowa DNR issued its generator permits in June 2026.
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Building 1 is the first data center on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The single-story building has three sections totaling about 848,000 square feet, with diesel generator yards along its north side.
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Building 4 is the first of the single-story east halls on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, built in 2023 and 2024.
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Building 6 is the south-east single-story hall on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, completed in 2026.
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Building 5 is the second of the single-story east halls on Google's Southlands campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, built in 2024 and 2025.
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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.
October 10, 2026 Google
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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October 05, 2026 Google
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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October 01, 2026 Crusoe
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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