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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- 8855 Grand Avenue · West Des Moines · Dallas 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-000992
What the source record says
Microsoft's FIRST Iowa data center campus (planned since 2008, construction from 2010, expanded 2011/2013) - a two-building campus at/near 8855 Grand Ave, distinct from the already-tracked 'Ginger West' campus (11100 Booneville Rd). Address sourced from a secondary aggregator search summary (not independently fetched this session) but independently geocode-verified as a real West Des Moines / Dallas County address via OSM Nominatim. Annual property tax ~$1.6M and $10M public infrastructure investment per WDM Chamber page (not campus construction cost).
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: 8855 Grand Ave · 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-mountain-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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