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Beale Project Pilot (De Soto)

De Soto, Johnson County, Kansas · All 6 Beale Infrastructure sites

Under constructionMixed receptionAI likelyRecord updated July 6, 2026

Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) is a data center under construction in De Soto, Kansas (Johnson County), operated by Beale Infrastructure. The public record puts it at announced August 2025, 290 acres, a reported $3.1 billion investment. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator
Beale Infrastructure
Facility type
Data center, AI use likely
Location
De Soto, Johnson County, KS
Coordinates
38.9660, -94.9670
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
290 acres
Investment
$3.1 billion
Announced
August 2025
Utility
Evergy
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
100 permanent; 500 construction
Public subsidy
Kansas Senate Bill 98 to 20-year sales tax exemption on construction materials and equipment, Kansas, 2025 | De Soto Industrial Revenue Bonds, 10-year property tax abatement (PILOT payments) per building, De Soto, KS, 2025
Community reception
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

  1. May 2026
    Under construction
    Groundbreaking May 2026; first phase completion expected 2029 per developer and search-result synthesis; DCD source does not confirm a 2027 target Source: Data Center Dynamics
  2. August 2025
    Proposed
    De Soto City Council approves 290-acre, $3.1B campus at northwest corner of 103rd Street and Edgerton Road; adjacent to Panasonic EV plant Source: Johnson County Post

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) in De Soto, Johnson County, Kansas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. De Soto City Council approved with little public opposition in August 2025; some residents and outside observers raised concern about water draw from the Kansas River and impacts on regional water supply

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

De Soto City Council approved with little public opposition in August 2025; some residents and outside observers raised concern about water draw from the Kansas River and impacts on regional water supply

Source: Johnson County Post

Power and water

Developer funding new industrial wastewater treatment facility; cooling water drawn from Kansas River; significant infrastructure upgrades borne by developer

Public money on the record

ProgramAmountGranted byYear
Kansas Senate Bill 98 to 20-year sales tax exemption on construction materials and equipmentNot establishedKansas2025
De Soto Industrial Revenue Bonds, 10-year property tax abatement (PILOT payments) per buildingNot establishedDe Soto, KS2025

Notes on the record

Developer (Mount Sunflower Properties LLC / Beale Infrastructure, backed by Blue Owl) has pre-leased the entire campus to an unnamed large technology company. Attorney described the tenant as among 'the strongest, most financially profitable companies in the world.' Four buildings of 285,000 sq ft each (1.14M sq ft total); full build-out in 7 to 9 years. Kansas's first announced hyperscale data center. Permanent job figure of 100 is sourced from Johnson County Post ('over 100 long-term jobs paying six figures'); DCD separately cited 50 operational jobs for the first phase only. Coordinates are De Soto city centroid; exact site is at NW corner of 103rd St and Edgerton Rd.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • Cooling method and water use
Which document closes each gap
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) data center in De Soto?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) in De Soto, Johnson County, Kansas appear in the record, with no clear majority position. De Soto City Council approved with little public opposition in August 2025; some residents and outside observers raised concern about water draw from the Kansas River and impacts on regional water supply

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) data center?

No lawsuit over Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) appears in the record we track as of July 6, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Beale Project Pilot (De Soto) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Beale Project Pilot (De Soto), and how big is it?

Beale Infrastructure is the operator on record. We hold 6 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 290 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Beale Project Pilot (De Soto)," updated July 6, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/beale-project-pilot-de-soto-ks.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/beale-project-pilot-de-soto-ks, retrieved September 14, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

  1. 1.De Soto advances $3.1B data center project near Panasonic plant · Johnson County Post · retrieved July 6, 2026
  2. 2.Beale targets two campuses outside Kansas City, Kansas · Data Center Dynamics · retrieved July 6, 2026

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