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Operating (inferred) Polk County · IA

Microsoft West Des Moines

West Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

Approximate area

Recorded as in service.

Status inferred from dce directory (Tue, 08 Se). No filing states it in as many words.

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The location is approximate, so it is drawn as an area: a circle 500 metres around the point a directory gives. The directory does not say how that point was made, and the radius is our choice, not a measured error. Other campuses on record nearby are drawn around it.
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Status
Operating (inferred)
Owner
Owner not independently traced
Capacity
360 MW directory claim
Location known to
Approximate area
County
Polk County
State
Iowa
Electric utility
Not identified
Grid operator
not stated

Location and nearby

Microsoft West Des Moines is on record as operating in Polk County, Iowa. A directory lists its capacity at 360 MW; no filing we hold states a figure. 35 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 8 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 2.3 mi away, measured between approximate points.

Nearest of each kind: Operating 4.0 mi Under construction 8.9 mi Permitted 2.3 mi Proposed 6.7 mi

Nearest campuses on record

What is on record

Owner

Owner not independently traced

Listed as Microsoft by DataCentersExposed. We have not verified that against a filing.

What the signal was

  1. dce directory attribution

    Microsoft Data Center LLC

    dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) · Jun 14, 2026

Filed by: Microsoft Data Center LLC

Capacity
360 MW as reported by dce, not from a filing
Diesel generators
No air permit found in the records we collect
Water
Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
Electric utility
More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
Also recorded as
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft Data Center LLC

How the status changed

  1. Operating Jun 14, 2026 inferred

    DCE status 'mapped' (located only, single source)

    dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.)

About this data

Evidence

Directory listing only

One or more public directories list it. We have not matched it to a filing.

Location known to

Approximate area

Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway. The point comes from a directory, which does not say how it was derived.

Independent sources

1

directory. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.

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Where this comes from

One source record back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.

Document Role Row Date
dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US Primary slug=microsoft-west-des-moines Jun 14, 2026 last changed on the server

© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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