Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has scheduled a
press conference [1] at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning at the State Capitol Building to announce a “major economic development” project, where he is expected to confirm that Microsoft will build a major data center in West Des Moines.
Microsoft executives have confirmed that the company will
build a data center in Iowa [2]. In February state legislators passed a
tax incentive package [3] similar to those that helped lure Google to build a $600 million data center in Council Bluffs. Microsoft had not previously announced a site for the project, with recent reports indicating West Des Moines was competing with Urbandale. Both cities are western suburbs of Des Moines. Microsoft’s recent data center projects have been in the range of 550,000 square feet with an investment of $500 million.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] press conference: http://www.governor.iowa.gov/news/2008/08/20_2.php
[2] build a data center in Iowa: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jun/30/microsoft_confirms_iowa_data_center.html
[3] tax incentive package: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Feb/21/microsoft_iowa_incentives_sent_to_governor.html
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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