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 17.9-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 operates as a fragmented, undersized micro-market with just 11 tracked facilities delivering 3 MW of aggregate capacity. The operator base is highly dispersed: four unnamed operators control four facilities each, Microsoft operates two sites, and Aureon Network Services runs one. This extreme fragmentation mirrors the broader Des Moines region's challenge—the wider metro contains 37 facilities at 832 MW, yet West Des Moines represents less than 0.4% of that regional footprint. The lack of scale and operator concentration suggests this submarket has not attracted meaningful consolidation or institutional deployment yet. The DCPI verdict of AVOID should be treated as a hard constraint for acquisition-stage investors. The excess-power score of 44/100 combined with a constraint score of 47/100 indicates the market lacks both adequate available capacity and the infrastructure…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Comparable facilities in West Des Moines tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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