Status: Proposed

Developer: Microsoft, Inc

Cost: $600 Million

Category: Office/Warehouse

Etc:

• New construction of a high-tech data and server farm near a rapidly growing area of West Des Moines
• Project would employ 50-75 employees, but a boost to the image of a community attracting high caliber tech jobs may be more of an economic driver for other businesses choosing to cluster near data centers
• The project was put on hold in January 2009 due to nationwide economic woes