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Tama County, Iowa

Tama County, Iowa has 10 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 8 operating plants totaling 180.4 MW and 2 planned projects totaling 269.4 MW. No data center record lists the county. Wind leads with 440.3 MW across 4 projects. 1 planned project is past its listed in-service date.

Data as of Grid region: Midcontinent ISO (MISO)Refreshed monthly
10
power projects, planned and operating
269.4MW
planned generation, 2 projects
180.4MW
operating generation, 8 projects
1
planned project past its listed in-service date
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Tama 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.

Black Hawk 1 MW Marshall no data centers Poweshiek no data centers Grundy no data centers Benton no data centers Tama 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

Headline finding
1.5times

more planned than operating generation in Tama County. 2 projects in the queue would add 269.4 MW to the 180.4 MW operating today, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Operating generation180.4 MW
Planned generation269.4 MW

Technology mix

10 projects, 449.8 MW planned and operating

Wind440.3 MW4 projects, 98%
Oil9.5 MW6 projects, 2%
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Power generation in the county

8 plants operate inside Tama County, 180.4 MW of wind and oil. The queue adds 269.4 MW across 2 projects, and one of them is past its listed in-service date.

Figure 1

Operating and planned generation by technology

MW in Tama County

OperatingPlanned
WindOperating 170.9 MW 2 projects
WindPlanned 269.4 MW 2 projects
OilOperating 9.5 MW 6 projects
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TechnologyStatusProjectsMW
WindOperating2170.9
WindPlanned2269.4
OilOperating69.5
Operating: 180.4 MW. Planned: 269.4 MW. If every planned project is built, county generation would reach 449.8 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
050100150200 Snapshot year 169 2024 2025 100 2026
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YearPlanned projectsMW
20241169.4
202500
20261100
1 project, 169.4 MW, was due before 2026

Tama County against its neighbors

Black Hawk County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 1 MW. 5 of the 5 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.

CountyData center recordsData center MWOperating generation MWPlanned generation MWData center MW per MW operating
Black Hawk County 1
1
394
0 0x
Marshall County 0
0
1,190
717 0x
Poweshiek County 0
0
538
0 0x
Grundy County 0
0
243
0 0x
Tama County this page 0
0
180
269 0x
Benton County 0
0
18
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 shown

Every record in Tama County

Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 10 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.

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