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Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers

Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers

Operating
Confirmed

Jurisdiction: US — Iowa (MISO)

West Des Moines, Iowa (Polk/Dallas). Multiple campuses since 2012; hosts an OpenAI training supercomputer.

Capacity
GPUs (est.)
Capex
Announced
Target operational

Delivery health score

58 /100
58/100

Methodology prs-v0.1 · computed · trigger: scheduled

Schedule

60 /100
60/100

Regulatory

50 /100
50/100

Infrastructure

60 /100
60/100

Capital

50 /100
50/100

Why this score — factor breakdown

Each factor below contributed to the current score. Contributions are rubric weights from methodology prs-v0.1; every factor cites the record it is derived from.

Dimension
Factor
Contribution
Cites
Narrative
Capital staleness decay +10 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers Newest capital evidence is 2023-09-08 (freshness window 12 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory staleness decay -20 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers Newest regulatory evidence is 2023-09-08 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Capital baseline 40 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers No committed capital evidenced on any entity role — announcement-only anchor region (§B.2.4).
Infrastructure baseline 70 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers No-adverse-evidence infrastructure baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Infrastructure interconnection progress +15 Commissioning Power/interconnection milestone "Commissioning" achieved on 2012-01-01 — largest single health event (§B.2.3).
Infrastructure staleness decay -25 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers Newest infrastructure evidence is 2012-01-01 (freshness window 9 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).
Regulatory baseline 70 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers No-adverse-evidence regulatory baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule baseline 80 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers No-adverse-evidence schedule baseline (disclosed config, scoring.prs.baselines).
Schedule milestone achieved +5 Commissioning Milestone "Commissioning" achieved on/ahead of its first announced date (2012-01-01).
Schedule staleness decay -25 Microsoft West Des Moines Data Centers Newest schedule evidence is 2012-01-01 (freshness window 6 months) — score drifts one rubric level toward the stage-default prior of 50 (§B.4: silence is information).

Milestones

  1. Commissioning

    Achieved

    Commissioning · Actual:

Constraint observations

No active constraint observations recorded against this project.

Entities & roles

Entity
Role
Ownership
Committed capital
OpenAI
Anchor Tenant
Microsoft
Owner

Sources & citations

Every substantive field on this record is backed by a canonical claim from a cited source document, graded on the E1 (strongest) – E5 (weakest) evidence ladder.

  1. Microsoft Source · Sep 8, 2023 · backs: actual date, status

    https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/ai/west-des-moines-iowa-ai-supercomputer/

Signals

Recent ingested source documents linked to this project via extracted claims or triage mentions, newest first.

  1. · Microsoft Source