CyrusOne OCB1 Council Bluffs
4700 Gifford Road · Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, IA
Source: OpenStreetMap
CyrusOne OCB1 Council Bluffs is a mapped data center in Pottawattamie County, IA, operated by CyrusOne LLC. DataCentersExposed has documented a 117,949 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Overview
source: linkCyrusOne OCB1 is a mapped colocation data center in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, operated by CyrusOne LLC. Its reported footprint is 117,949 square feet. The site draws power from Midamerican Energy Co inside the MISO grid.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentCyrusOne LLC
- Files asCyrusOne LLC
- This facilityCyrusOne OCB1 Council Bluffs
The grid behind this site, right now
source: MISO · gridstatus- Natural Gas33.4%
- Coal28.2%
- Solar13.1%
- Imports11.0%
- Nuclear9.7%
- Other3.0%
- Wind1.6%
Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jul 15, 2026, 9:20 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: GDELT- Clinton City Council rejects data center moratorium - WQADWQAD· Jun 10, 2026
- City Council turns down temporary halt on AI data centers in Clinton - KWQCKWQC· Jun 9, 2026
- Palo City Council delays vote on proposed data center ordinance - KWWLKWWL· Jun 8, 2026
- Palo City Council advances data center zoning ordinance despite pushback from residents - Iowa Public RadioIowa Public Radio· Jun 2, 2026
- Palo city council advances Google data center ordinance - KCRGKCRG· Jun 1, 2026
- Palo City Council to discuss a data center ordinance - KCRGKCRG· Jun 1, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 17 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.55 gal/kWh embedded in MISO grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Omaha), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.
Who lives nearby
source: Census ACS 2023Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.
Nearest school
source: HIFLD / NCESThe nearest public school, E A Kreft Primary School in Council Bluffs, is 1.1 mi from this site (490 students).
Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).
Hearings timeline
No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.