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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 · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent
CyrusOne LLC
Operator
CyrusOne LLC
Est. capacity
~20-50 MW
Footprint
117,949 sq ft
Interconnection
~17 MW
Utility
Midamerican Energy Co
Grid
MISO
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

CyrusOne 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

The grid behind this site, right now

source: MISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
54%
Fossil right now
42%
Grid operator
MISO
  • Wind21.6%
  • Natural Gas21.4%
  • Coal20.5%
  • Solar18.4%
  • Nuclear14.1%
  • Imports2.2%
  • Other1.8%

Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 4:35 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to CyrusOne LLC (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2017 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2016 · term — yr · source

Water use

Modeled estimate~334.7K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~155.2K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~179.5K gpd

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 ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
41
O3
Good
41
PM2.5
Good
28
PM10
Good

Air 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 2023
Median household income
$71.1K
People of color
22%
Below poverty
11%
Tract population
3,645

Demographics 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 / NCES

The 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.