Data Center Registry

Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center

Wellington, Sumner County County, Kansas

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated October 21, 2026

Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center is a proposed data center in Wellington, Kansas (Sumner County County), operated by Cormor and Data Shelter. The public record puts it at announced March 2026.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Cormor and Data Shelter
Facility type: Data center
Location: Wellington, Sumner County County, KS
Coordinates: 37.2900, -97.4000 (approximate)
Power capacity: Not established from a public source
Land: Not established from a public source
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: March 2026
Utility: City of Wellington municipal utility
Cooling: air
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: 18 permanent
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing

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.

March 17, 2026
Proposed
City entering early negotiations on a letter of intent to sell municipal power to the data center Source: KWCH

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 21, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center in Wellington, Sumner County County, Kansas appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

Letter of intent under negotiation for the data center to buy electricity from the city.

Developer describes the facility as waterless and battery-free.

Notes on the record

Proposed for the north end of Wellington; coordinates are approximate. The city runs two generation plants (~40 MW combined) and would sell power to the facility.

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
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Land area
How the community has received it

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.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Land area: The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center in Wellington?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center?

No lawsuit over Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center appears in the record we track as of October 21, 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 Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center is on record here. Cooling is recorded as air, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center, and how big is it?

Cormor and Data Shelter is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Cormor / Data Shelter Wellington Data Center," updated October 21, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/cormor-data-shelter-wellington-ks.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/cormor-data-shelter-wellington-ks, retrieved October 29, 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.Wellington officials to discuss proposed data center, power agreement · KWCH · retrieved October 21, 2026
2.New data center proposal draws optimism in Wellington despite pushback elsewhere · FOX Kansas · retrieved October 21, 2026

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