Microsoft Project Ginger East Data Center
Microsoft · West Des Moines, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- Under constructionSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 1475 SE Maffitt Lake Road
- Coordinates
- 41.5193146, -93.7362003
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.
Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.
Reported lifecycle history
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
1475 SE Maffitt Lake Road - a distinct 146-acre campus from 'Ginger West' (11100 Booneville Rd, different parcel; tracked separately as of August 2026). Building 1 (250,000 sq ft) came online in 2023 (as of October 2026, Baxtel lists the year built as 2023 and the facility as operational). The campus is listed as under construction because later buildings were permitted in June 2024: Go West Des Moines, citing the Des Moines Business Record, reports two further data center permits at this address, each for 244,676 square feet; 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). No investment figure is recorded for the campus: Go West Des Moines, citing the Des Moines Business Record, gives $384 million for each of the two Ginger East permits issued in June 2024, which is a per-building permit valuation, not campus spending. As of October 2026, the Baxtel project page and the Go West Des Moines article cited here give no detail on public input, hearing testimony, or resident or official reaction to the permits.
Sources and provenance
- Microsoft: Project Ginger East Data Center · source retrieved 2026-08-08
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: Maffitt Lake Road · source retrieved 2026-08-08
- Construction Underway on 4 New Microsoft Data Centers · source retrieved 2026-08-21
- Growth of data centers in Iowa · source retrieved 2026-09-16
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.