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
- 1475 SE Maffitt Lake Road · West Des Moines · Polk County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000977
What the source record says
1475 SE Maffitt Lake Road - a distinct 146-acre campus from the already-tracked 'Ginger West' (11100 Booneville Rd, different parcel). Building 1 (250,000 sq ft) came online 2023; up to 5 buildings / ~1.8M sq ft planned campus-wide (Microsoft's own naming convention pairs Ginger East/West as siblings but they are separate parcels/addresses). investmentUsd is the value of ONE building permit, not full campus capex. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Checked baxtel.com's project page (2026-09-10); it notes the West Des Moines Planning and Zoning Commission approved site plans for two new data centers in February 2024, but gives no detail on public input, hearing testimony, or resident/official reaction to that approval.
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: Project Ginger East Data Center · Baxtel
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: Maffitt Lake Road · OpenStreetMap contributors
- Construction Underway on 4 New Microsoft Data Centers · Go West Des Moines (City of West Des Moines economic development)
- 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-ginger-east-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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