Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus
Van Meter, Dallas County, IADeveloper: MicrosoftCensus GEOID 19049
- Stage
- Being built
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Water
Microsoft is constructing a 4 building hyperscale data center campus in Van Meter, Dallas County, Iowa, approved by the Iowa Economic Development Authority. It is being built; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Being built, ringed
- data center
- Smaller pins: 25 other published records in Iowa
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Buildings
- 4 buildings agency filing, verified October 27, 2026
- Power it would draw
- 200 MW the developer's figure About 2 percent of New York City's summer peak demand in 2024.
- Who leads it
- Microsoft as stated by the source
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Land, Water, Who would use it, Jobs once it runs, Tax each year
The math behind the comparison
- Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus, capacity: 200 MW.
- New York City (NYISO Zone J) summer peak demand, actual, 2024: 10,245 MW (2024).
- 200 ÷ 10,245 = 0.02 (MW over MW).
Sources:
- Microsoft (opens in a new tab)
- NYISO, 2025 Load and Capacity Data Report (Gold Book) (opens in a new tab), Table I-4a, Baseline Summer Non-Coincident Peak Demand, Historical and Forecast, page 26, Zone J, 2024 row (2024)
A comparison is arithmetic on two published rows and is never a new fact (how comparisons are made).
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | 200 MW | the developer's figure | iowaeda.com (opens in a new tab) | October 27, 2026 |
| How much water it would use | ||||
| How loud it would be | ||||
| Jobs once it runs | ||||
| Tax it would pay each year |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | Microsoft | as stated by the source | October 27, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | ||||
| How much land | ||||
| Buildings | 4 buildings | agency filing, verified October 27, 2026 | iowaeda.com (opens in a new tab) | October 27, 2026 |
| Where its power comes from | ||||
| Grid connection | ||||
| How it is cooled |
A blank value cell means not disclosed by any source on file; a blank basis cell means the source gave the figure without saying on what basis.
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water use A state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use it A lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Jobs and tax An incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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(content date)
Microsoft closed on six hundred acres in Woodward for a data center campus, announcing the project at a community meeting restricted to local residents and prompting criticism from a freedom of information advocate.
mississippivalleypublishing.com (opens in a new tab) query feed
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(content date)
Microsoft acquired 377 acres near Vision Park in Van Meter, Iowa for approximately $40 million to build a data center campus.
The full Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus timeline, in order
The site
The pin is the site's address.
- Where
- 360th Street and Grand Avenue, Van Meter, IA 50261, Van Meter, Dallas County, Iowa [source] (opens in a new tab)
- How exactly it is located
- Exact, at the address
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Microsoft West Des Moines Data Center Campuses (Alluvion, Osmium, Ginger, Ruthenium, and Maple), 6.0 mi
- Apple Waukee Data Center Campus, 7.0 mi
- US Signal and OneNeck Des Moines Data Center (IA01 Waukee), 7.1 mi
- IP Pathways Urbandale Data Center (DSM1), 11 mi
- Aureon West Des Moines Data Center, 11 mi
Keep going
Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus?
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The record has 2 measures of its size: 200 MW (the developer's figure, iowaeda.com (opens in a new tab)) and 4 buildings (agency filing, verified October 27, 2026, iowaeda.com (opens in a new tab)). Its acreage is not disclosed.
Who is building Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus?
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Microsoft is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus say it needs?
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Power: 200 MW (the developer's figure, iowaeda.com (opens in a new tab)). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Microsoft Van Meter Data Center Campus stand today?
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It is being built; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, October 20, 2026: Microsoft closed on six hundred acres in Woodward for a data center campus, announcing the project at a community meeting restricted to local residents and prompting criticism from a freedom of information advocate.
What has Van Meter or Dallas County decided about it?
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No decision by Van Meter or Dallas County about data centers is on the record. The Dallas County page and the Iowa scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Reporting
- Microsoft buys land in Van Meter for another data center campus - Business Record (opens in a new tab), Business Record, January 31, 2024, query feed
1 source on file.
About this data
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For researchers
- Stage
- Being built
- Tier
- built from one source
- Tags
- Built from one source
- Coordinates
- 41.5285, -93.9245
- How the location is known
- Location from the site's street address.
- Location source
- https://www.iowaeda.com/
- Coordinate source
- IEDA Board approval and Dallas County site plan
- How capacity was disclosed
- the developer's figure
- Capacity, if disclosed
- 200 MW, the developer's figure
- Published
- September 27, 2026
- Last verified
- October 27, 2026
- Undisclosed in public filings
- Location source number, Location last verified, EPA registry id, Uses, Tenancy, Cooling, How water was disclosed, How acreage was disclosed, Interconnection, Rating of the county's rows