Microsoft Project Osmium
West Des Moines, Warren County, Iowa
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Microsoft
- Capacity
- 190 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Warren County
- State
- Iowa
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- not stated
Location and nearby
Microsoft Project Osmium is on record as proposed in Warren County, Iowa. A record puts its capacity at 190 MW. 35 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 5 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 1.8 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 1.8 mi Under construction 17.1 mi Permitted 6.9 mi Proposed 2.4 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 1.8 mi approximate
Operating · Madison County, IA
- 1.9 mi approximate
Operating · Warren County, IA
- 2.4 mi approximate
Microsoft Ruthenium - Building 1
Proposed · Madison County, IA
- 4.2 mi approximate
Proposed · Warren County, IA
- 4.4 mi approximate
Microsoft Ginger East - Building 1
Operating · Polk County, IA
- 5.1 mi approximate
Operating · Polk County, IA
What is on record
Owner
Likely Microsoft
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
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cited document names the operator
microsoft
Source cited by AI GridWatch for Microsoft Project Osmium: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/microsofts-ai-strategy-deconstructed · Aug 14, 2026
Filed by: Microsoft
Sources name more than one company here: Microsoft, OpenAI. That usually means a building with tenants. No source we hold says which is the landlord, so we do not guess.
- Capacity
- 190 MW from agw
- 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
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 14, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: under construction|; source press
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Microsoft Project Osmium: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/microsofts-ai-strategy-deconstructed US-IA | Context | url=https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/microsofts-ai-strategy-deconstructed | Aug 14, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=microsoft-project-osmium | Aug 14, 2026 last changed on the server |
AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.
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