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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Project Mountain Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- 8855 Grand Avenue · West Des Moines · Dallas County · Iowa
- Official metro area
- Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 16 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000992
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Land area
- 41 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
What the source record says
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 fetched this session) 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).
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
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Microsoft Data Centers - West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce · West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
- OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocode: 8855 Grand Ave · OpenStreetMap contributors
- Growth of data centers in Iowa · Business Record
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-mountain-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. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
Federal registry record
What the U.S. EPA Facility Registry Service records at this street address, selected by DataCenterData from EPA’s ECHO Exporter. U.S. government data; not independently verified by DataCenterData. It does not establish who owns or operates the site, whether it is operating, its size, or whether the registration covers one building or a whole campus.
The U.S. EPA registry lists a facility registered as “MICROSOFT DM1 DATA CENTER” at 8855 GRAND AVE, WEST DES MOINES, IA 50266.
- Name as registered
- MICROSOFT DM1 DATA CENTER
- Address as registered
- 8855 GRAND AVE, WEST DES MOINES, IA 50266
- EPA registry ID
110043322115
One EPA registration; it may cover generators for a whole campus or a single building.
Registrations EPA lists for this ID
- Clean Air Act registration (stationary sources, typically standby generators)
- RCRA hazardous-waste generator registration
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000992
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- 8855 Grand Avenue, West Des Moines, IA · Dallas (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 41 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-16
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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