Benton County, Iowa
Benton County, Iowa has 7 power projects in the FieldProspects database, all of them operating, 17.5 MW in total, with nothing in the queue. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 16.1 MW across 5 projects.
Benton County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 5 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of operating generation across 7 plants, and nothing in the interconnection queue for Benton County.
Technology mix
7 projects, 17.5 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
7 plants operate inside Benton County, 17.5 MW of natural gas and oil. Nothing is in the queue for the county.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Benton County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 5 | 16.1 |
| Oil | Operating | 2 | 1.4 |
Benton County against its neighbors
Linn County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 2.8 GW. 3 of the 4 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linn County | 19 | 2,516 | 3.8x | ||
| Black Hawk County | 1 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Iowa County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Tama County | 0 | 269 | 0x | ||
| Benton County this page | 0 | 0 | 0x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
5 counties shownEvery record in Benton County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 7 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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