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Company: Microsoft
Parent Company: Microsoft
Subsidy Source: multiple
Location: Iowa
City: West Des Moines
Project Description: data center
Year: 2010
Major Industry of Parent: information technology
Specific Industry of Parent: software
Subsidy Value: $65,317,242
Subsidy Value in 2023 Dollars: $91,766,844
Program Name: multiple
Awarding Agency: multiple
Type of Subsidy: 
Number of Jobs or Training Slots: 69
Capital Investment: $1,000,000,000
Source of Data: Details of the megadeal are taken from" Money Lost to The Cloud", a report by Good Jobs First. October 2016; online at (click here)
Notes: The subsidy package for a data center and its expansion came from state and local governments and included state sales tax exemption of $36.6 million and High Quality Jobs Tax Credit program of $21 million. The city also committed $8 million to improve infrastructure around the project. Overlap with main Subsidy Tracker data: none.
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