Project Osmium is a data center operated by Microsoft in West Des Moines, IA, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the West Des Moines data-center market on the MISO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 18.0-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for West Des Moines — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on West Des Moines — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
West Des Moines is a nascent, undercapitalized data center submarket with minimal operational scale. The market comprises 11 tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of live capacity—a distinction that separates it fundamentally from established regional hubs. Operator presence is fragmented across four unnamed entities 36% of tracked sites, Microsoft 18%, and Aureon Network Services 9%, with no single player holding meaningful market control. This fragmentation, combined with zero operational megawattage, suggests the market remains in early development or repositioning phases. The DCPI verdict of "AVOID" derives from paired constraint signals that render investment unattractive. An excess-power score of 43/100 indicates insufficient surplus generation capacity to reliably serve new loads, while a constraint score of 42/100 signals structural infrastructure bottlenecks—likely transmission,…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Networks recorded as present at or immediately around Project Osmium in public peering records. Treat this as a map of who is there, not as a list of contracted cross-connects — availability, diversity and pricing are the operator’s to confirm.
Source: PeeringDB carrier-to-facility records, matched to this site by location. A network listed here may sit in a neighbouring hall or an adjacent building at the same address, so presence is reported for the location rather than for a single suite.
DC Hub tracks 16 operating generating units totalling 1,482 MW within about 50 km of West Des Moines, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
Comparable facilities in West Des Moines tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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