Sarpy County, Nebraska

County ranked by announced AI data-center load

Undisclosed Announced AI load

Campuses

Lead operator

Key takeaways

Sarpy County has 194,051 residents with a $101,402 median household income, the highest in Nebraska and the second-highest in this batch behind Dakota MN. Papillion is 24,159 residents and 41.9% of county adults hold a bachelor's degree.Source: Census ACS 2023 B01003, B19013, B15003 (FIPS 31153) + sources[0] (Wikipedia: Papillion, NE)
Meta's Papillion campus has been operational since 2017 on the OPPD grid. Google also operates separate data centers in Papillion, making Sarpy County one of the few US counties where both Meta and Google hyperscalers run on the same municipal utility.Source: data/sites/data_centers.csv (Sarpy County) + sources[0]
OPPD is a public-power utility with 362,918 residential customers. Its residential rate rose from 11.7 to 12.4 cents per kWh between 2021 and 2023, a 5.7% jump worth about $72 per year on a typical household bill, the most restrained in any county in this batch with multiple hyperscalers.Source: data/cache/utility_rate_yoy.csv (Omaha Public Power District, NE)
Home prices rose 1.9% over three years against a $287,600 median home value, the smallest 3-year home-price delta in this batch. Property tax assessments rose 13.2% on the same baseline, an unusual decoupling of tax growth from price growth.Source: data/cache/realestate_yoy.csv + data/cache/property_tax_yoy.csv (FIPS 31153) + Census ACS 2023 B25077

12.8% of Sarpy County adults are veterans, the highest veteran share of any county in this batch. Offutt Air Force Base, headquarters of US Strategic Command, sits inside the county and seeds a labor pool with active security clearances directly relevant to Meta and Google.Source: Census ACS 2023 B21001 (FIPS 31153)
Unemployment is 2.3% and poverty is 5.2%, both the lowest values of any county in this batch. The Sarpy hyperscaler labor pool is the tightest of any multi-campus county here.Source: Census ACS 2023 B23025, B17001 (FIPS 31153)
94.8% of Sarpy households have a wired broadband subscription, the highest in this batch. Meta and Google built into a county where residential connectivity already matches the campus they then funded.Source: Census ACS 2023 B28002 (FIPS 31153)
Median gross rent in Sarpy is $1,284 against a 29.4% renter share and an 11.1% Hispanic population. The renter share is lower than urban metros even though Papillion and Bellevue function as Omaha-suburban commuter towns.Source: Census ACS 2023 B25064, B25003, B03003 (FIPS 31153)