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Johnson County, Iowa

Johnson County, Iowa has 21 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 18 operating plants totaling 124.3 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 153.4 MW. No data center record lists the county. Solar leads with 154.4 MW across 3 projects. 3 planned projects are past their listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
21
power projects, planned and operating
153.4MW
planned generation, 3 projects
124.3MW
operating generation, 18 projects
3
planned projects past their listed in-service date
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Johnson County and its neighbors

Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.

Cedar no data centers Washington no data centers Linn 2.8 GW Muscatine no data centers Johnson no data centers Iowa no data centers Louisa no data centers
no data center MWunder 100 MW100 to 1,000 MW1,000 to 5,000 MW5,000 to 15,000 MW15,000 MW or more no page yet

Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers

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1.2times

more planned than operating generation in Johnson County. 3 projects in the queue would add 153.4 MW to the 124.3 MW operating today, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Operating generation124.3 MW
Planned generation153.4 MW

Technology mix

21 projects, 277.7 MW planned and operating

Solar154.4 MW3 projects, 56%
Natural Gas113.6 MW13 projects, 41%
Oil7.7 MW4 projects, 3%
One other technology2 MW1 project, 1%
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Power generation in the county

18 plants operate inside Johnson County, 124.3 MW. The queue adds 153.4 MW across 3 projects, and 3 of them are past their listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Johnson County

OperatingPlanned
SolarOperating 3 MW 1 project
SolarPlanned 151.4 MW 2 projects
Natural GasOperating 113.6 MW 13 projects
OilOperating 7.7 MW 4 projects
DieselPlanned 2 MW 1 project
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
SolarOperating13
SolarPlanned2151.4
Natural GasOperating13113.6
OilOperating47.7
DieselPlanned12
Operating: 124.3 MW. Planned: 153.4 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 277.7 MW.
Source. FieldProspects database: ISO/RTO interconnection queues, EIA-860M and public data center filings, data as of October 8, 2026.
Figure 2

Planned generation by listed in-service year

MW. Years before 2026 are past due.

Past dueDue 2026 or later
050100150 2 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 1 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 150
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YearPlanned projectsMW
200612
200700
200800
200900
201000
201100
201200
201300
201400
201500
201611.4
201700
201800
201900
202000
202100
202200
202300
202400
20251150
3 projects, 153.4 MW, were due before 2026

Johnson County against its neighbors

Linn County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 2.8 GW. 4 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Linn County 19
2,795
742
2,516 3.8x
Louisa County 0
0
912
614 0x
Muscatine County 0
0
301
638 0x
Iowa County 0
0
277
0 0x
Johnson County this page 0
0
124
153 0x
Cedar County 0
0
14
9 0x
Washington County 0
0
0
1,075 no operating MW

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.

7 counties shown

Every record in Johnson County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 21 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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