Growth of data centers in Iowa

Growth of data centers in Iowa

Jeff Pomeranz was city manager in West Des Moines when the community was approached around 2008 by a consultant looking for land on which to build a data center for Microsoft Corp. At the time, development of large-scale data centers was just beginning to gain steam. And even though Google had begun building its first…

Why data centers are relevant to the demand for electrical power Data centers, also known as data processing centers (DPCs) or data centers in English, are essentially large ships in which servers - i.e., high-performance computers - and their hardware equipment are stored and protected.