Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Cerro Gordo County, Iowa has 14 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 9 operating plants totaling 787.1 MW and 5 planned projects totaling 1.4 GW. No data center record lists the county. Natural Gas leads with 1.5 GW across 5 projects.
Cerro Gordo County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 5 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
more planned than operating generation in Cerro Gordo County. 5 projects in the queue would add 1.4 GW to the 787.1 MW operating today.
Technology mix
14 projects, 2.2 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
9 plants operate inside Cerro Gordo County, 787.1 MW. The queue adds 1.4 GW across 5 projects.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Cerro Gordo County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 3 | 602.8 |
| Natural Gas | Planned | 2 | 885.4 |
| Solar | Operating | 1 | 2.6 |
| Solar | Planned | 2 | 420 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 100 |
| Wind | Operating | 3 | 91.5 |
| Oil | Operating | 2 | 90.2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2 | 420 |
| 2027 | 1 | 100 |
| 2028 | 2 | 885.4 |
Cerro Gordo County against its neighbors
None of the 5 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Mitchell County has the most operating generation among them, 526.2 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerro Gordo County this page | 0 | 1,405 | 0x | ||
| Mitchell County | 0 | 180 | 0x | ||
| Franklin County | 0 | 560 | 0x | ||
| Hancock County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Worth County | 0 | 640 | 0x | ||
| Floyd County | 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.
6 counties shownEvery record in Cerro Gordo County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 14 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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