This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- 550 SE White Crane Road · West Des Moines · Polk County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000960
What the source record says
Announced April 2014. 8-building campus on SE White Crane Rd / 3590 SE Soteria Ave, south of the Ginger East site. Distinct parcel/campus from all currently-tracked Microsoft IA records. Annual property tax ~$8.1M, $45M public infrastructure investment per WDM Chamber (not campus construction cost — other reporting citing ~$1.1B total investment was not independently fetched this session and is omitted).
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
No status history was supplied in this edition.
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft Data Centers - West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce · West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: SE White Crane Road · OpenStreetMap contributors
- Growth of data centers in Iowa · Business Record
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-alluvion-west-des-moines-ia. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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