State, county and local government leaders announced plans for another massive data center in Iowa that’ll be built in West Des Moines. Microsoft will build a four-phase center that will end up being nearly two million square feet by the time it is done in 2022. It’ll cost between one-and-a-half and two billion dollars, and sit in Warren and Madison County. It will be the third data center in the state, along with one in Altoona and one in Council Bluffs. Governor Terry Branstad says the new data center will create construction jobs as it is built and then eventually some 130 permanent jobs…
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Branstad says the history of the other three data centers helped sell Microsoft on the new center…
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The state Economic Development Board approved four-point-seven million dollars in tax benefits for the project. The announcement of the new data center comes on the same day that state unemployment numbers showed another increase to four percent. Manufacturers lost more jobs last month and Branstad says that is a concern.
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