Palo Alto County, Iowa
Palo Alto County, Iowa has 13 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 10 operating plants totaling 374.3 MW and 3 planned projects totaling 650 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 761 MW across 5 projects.
Palo Alto County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 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 Palo Alto County. 3 projects in the queue would add 650 MW to the 374.3 MW operating today, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Technology mix
13 projects, 1 GW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
10 plants operate inside Palo Alto County, 374.3 MW. The queue adds 650 MW across 3 projects, and 2 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Palo Alto County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wind | Operating | 3 | 361 |
| Wind | Planned | 2 | 400 |
| Solar | Planned | 1 | 250 |
| Oil | Operating | 6 | 9.8 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 1 | 3.5 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 250 |
| 2024 | 1 | 200 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| 2027 | 0 | 0 |
| 2028 | 0 | 0 |
| 2029 | 1 | 200 |
Palo Alto County against its neighbors
None of the 4 neighboring counties with a page lists a data center record. Kossuth County has the most operating generation among them, 462.3 MW.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kossuth County | 0 | 275 | 0x | ||
| Clay County | 0 | 0 | 0x | ||
| Pocahontas County | 0 | 156 | 0x | ||
| Palo Alto County this page | 0 | 650 | 0x | ||
| Emmet 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.
5 counties shownEvery record in Palo Alto County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 13 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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