Microsoft Project Mountain Data Center
Microsoft · West Des Moines, IA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- OperationalSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 8855 Grand Avenue
- Coordinates
- 41.5385054, -93.8253005
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-16
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
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 retrieved as of August 2026) 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).
Sources and provenance
- Microsoft Data Centers - West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce · source retrieved 2026-08-08
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: 8855 Grand Ave · source retrieved 2026-08-08
- 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.