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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- West Des Moines · Madison County · Iowa
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 8 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001001
What the source record says
Planned 6th Microsoft hyperscale campus in the WDM area - along Veterans Parkway at Woodland Ave, 'just west of Osmium.' Would be Microsoft's first Madison County site (4th distinct county for Microsoft in the WDM area, after Polk/Dallas/Warren). Widely-reported $210M phase-1 investment / 113 MW / 245,000 sq ft first building figures (businessrecord.com, AOL/Yahoo condensed versions) could NOT be independently confirmed via direct fetch this session (businessrecord.com and DCD both 403'd repeatedly) — omitted per source-integrity rule rather than included on trust.
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 Ruthenium Data Center - Go West Des Moines · Go West Des Moines (city economic development)
- Microsoft wants to bring a sixth data center, called Ruthenium, to West Des Moines · Yahoo News (via Des Moines Register)
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: Woodland Avenue, Madison County · OpenStreetMap contributors
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-ruthenium-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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