3 data center projects in Kansas City City
Who decides here: the City Council of Kansas City City votes on zoning. The Platte County may review big projects too.
In Kansas City City
Project Kestrel at KCI-29 Logistics Park (near KCI airport)
Kansas City, Platte County
379 acres · for Google (reported)
🕒 Aug 28, 2025: Port KC approved up to $100 billion in revenue bonds for a six-building data center camp…
Built & runningMeta Kansas City data center (Golden Plains Technology Park)
Kansas City, Platte County
for Meta
🕒 2025: Meta brought the $1 billion data center online.
Being builtLambda AI factory (former Bank of America data center, AirWorld Center)
Kansas City, Platte County
for one unnamed Lambda customer
🕒 Oct 28, 2025: Lambda announced a $500 million AI computer center in an empty building near KCI.
Nearby (within 15 miles)
Google Project Mica campus (Kansas City Northland)
Kansas City, Clay County
500 acres · for Google
🕒 Feb 12, 2026: Google confirmed a $10 billion, five-building campus on about 500 acres.
Being builtabout 10 miles awayGoogle data center at Hunt Midwest Business Center (Kansas City Northland)
Kansas City, Clay County
for Google
🕒 Feb 2026: Google said its first Missouri campus, started in 2024, is still under construction.
Built & runningabout 12 miles awayPatmos AI campus (former Kansas City Star printing plant)
Kansas City, Jackson County
🕒 Nov 12, 2024: Patmos announced it will turn the old Kansas City Star printing plant into a 100+ megawa…
Reported in the news, not confirmed yet
Stopped or cancelledabout 12 miles away20-story data center tower (Western Newspaper Union building, Quality Hill)
Kansas City, Jackson County
🕒 Aug 5, 2026: City Plan Commission voted 6-0 to deny the 384-foot data center tower; 475 letters oppos…
Built & runningabout 13 miles awayEdged Kansas City data center
Kansas City, Clay County
🕒 Dec 2024: Edged opened its $143 million data center in Kansas City.
Approved, not built yetabout 14 miles awayMetrobloks data center campus (Liberty)
Liberty, Clay County
30 acres
🕒 March 2026: Liberty City Council approved $1.4 billion in bonds and $202.7 million in tax breaks ove…
What you can do
- Get told first.
We'll email you if anything changes in Kansas City City. - Go to council meetings.
Anyone can speak. Big projects usually need a public hearing. - Ask questions in writing.
Use our checklist.
🔔 Get told first
⚡ Your electric company
Depending on where you live in Kansas City City: Evergy Missouri West (company) or Platte-clay Electric Co-op, Inc. (co-op (owned by its members)) or City of Kansas City (run by the town) or Union Electric Co. (company).
Big data centers need a lot of power. Who pays for new power lines depends on state rules. See the rules in Missouri.
🙋 Open tasks here
- Is Google the confirmed end user of Project Kestrel?
- How much power will it need, and will new power lines be built?
- How much water will it use per day?
- Has construction started?
- How much water does the Meta data center use per day?
- How much power does it use?
- Is the Lambda site now running?
- Will it grow beyond 24 megawatts, and will that need new power lines?
- Did it get tax breaks from Port KC or the county?