Microsoft to build Iowa data Center for $1.1 billion

Microsoft has formally finalized the infrastructure http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/21635.html "> Development plan, to be located in the suburbs of Moines, Iowa (specifically, Moines southeast) $1.1 billion trillion to create new data centers. As a result, the company's overall investment in the region's new and existing data centers will be close to $2 billion trillion.

Microsoft has set a series of incentives for the data center: in Friday, the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) approved a sales tax rebate for building materials amounting to $20.3 million, which is valid until 2021, In addition, Moines has previously pledged to provide 18 million of billions of dollars in infrastructure improvement payments.

But Microsoft also needs to make a corresponding effort for this series of preferential policies. In return, the company's new CEO, Moines, has agreed to bring a 255 million-dollar minimum tax valuation after the project is completed, according to the Des Register, Moines, which has been able to generate about $8 million trillion in tax revenue every year.

"The property tax is a major part of this huge gain," moines, the mayor of the city, said in an interview.

The report also said that Iowa also asked Microsoft to create 84 long-term jobs after the project was completed, and that at least 66 of them would meet the minimum hourly rate of 24.32 dollars.

Through the report we found that the new data center will occupy a total of 154 acres of land as the basis for construction, the actual area of the relevant facilities will reach 1.16 million square feet-this is equivalent to a little more than 15 standard football pitches or 20 football fields of the land size. It is worth mentioning that at present Moines's 36-hole Willow Bay Golf Course will have 9 holes to be turned into the data center of the construction site.

Iowa's golf fans don't have to worry that the nine hole they're occupying is just a move. (Image source: The Des Moines Register)

The data center project has been advancing for some time among the decision makers, but Microsoft has only just made it public in Friday with the name "Alluvion project", acknowledging that it is behind a series of construction efforts in the region.

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Alluvion project was originally scheduled to formally submit its agenda to Ieda last month, but was eventually dragged to the last minute of the Friday meeting. According to reports, the delay is mainly due to the Willow Bay Golf Course needs more time to ensure that enough land is available to rebuild the lost access to the data center of the fairway, the greens and bunkers and other ground facilities.