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Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center)

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Under constructionNo reception on recordRecord updated October 9, 2026

Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) is a data center under construction in Kansas City, Missouri (Clay County), operated by Google. The public record puts it at announced March 2024, a reported $1 billion investment.

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Facility record

Under construction

Operator
Google
Facility type
Data center
Location
Kansas City, Clay County, MO
Coordinates
39.1726, -94.4644 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
$1 billion
Announced
March 2024
Utility
Evergy
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
Not established from a public source
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.

  1. 2024
    Under construction
    Google's regional head of data center public affairs said Google broke ground on its first Missouri data center campus in 2024 and that it is still under construction (reported Feb 2026) Source: Kansas City Star (via Yahoo News)
  2. July 2019
    Proposed
    Port KC board resolution authorizing bonds for a tentative $600 million Google data center on a 78-acre site within Hunt Midwest Business Center, reported under the code name Project Shale Source: Institutional Real Estate, Inc.

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of October 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri 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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A new status, a permit, a reception finding, or a lawsuit. Nothing else, ever.

Power and water

KSHB (2024) says the site will be powered with 400 MW of carbon-free solar from the Beavertail Solar farm under a power purchase agreement with Ranger Power and D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments; Google's Kansas City page also cites 400 MW of new-to-the-grid carbon-free capacity. The 400 MW is contracted supply, not the campus load.

Notes on the record

Google's first Kansas City-area campus, in Hunt Midwest Business Center, Northland, Clay County, announced by Hunt Midwest on 20 March 2024 as a new $1 billion Google data center. Distinct from google-project-mica-kc-northland-mo (Project Mica, the second campus); the Kansas City Star reports Google's Evergy agreement covers energy costs for 'both' campuses, and Google's own Kansas City page lists two new data centers, status 'In development'. Location: the 2023 Baxtel report on Google's planning applications (filed under the alias Shalerock LLC) places the work between NE Parvin Road and N Arlington Avenue, and the land comprises 78.9 acres bought in 2019 plus 236.4 acres bought in December 2021 (315.3 acres in total). The pin is the OpenStreetMap node where NE Parvin Road meets N Arlington Avenue (39.17256, -94.46443); the campus lies in the surrounding Hunt Midwest land, so it is approximate. A third-party Baxtel listing gives 9900 NE Parvin Rd, which Nominatim and the Census geocoder could not resolve to a building, so it is not used; a 2019 Baxtel report separately describes the 78-acre parcel as the former AK Steel site near MO-210 and N Arlington Avenue. Code name 'Project Shale': appears in two 2019 reports (Institutional Real Estate, Inc. and Baxtel, both relaying local coverage of the 22 July 2019 Port KC board meeting) for the 78-acre Hunt Midwest parcel. The 2023 Baxtel report ties the same 78.9-acre 2019 purchase to Shalerock LLC, and Shalerock/Shale is consistent, but no 2024-2026 source fetched uses 'Project Shale' for the $1 billion campus, so the identification is an inference from the shared site, not a stated one (hence confidence 'reported'). Status: only Google's 2026 statement (via the Kansas City Star) is dated and says 'under construction'; Google's own page says 'In development'. Baxtel's listing says 'Operational' with year built 2025, which conflicts and is not relied on; no source fetched reports the campus opening. A 2024 announcement reportedly expected the first data center online in 2025 (not independently confirmed here). Investment: $1 billion announced March 2024 (the 2019 report cited $600 million). Baxtel lists up to 1.435 million sq ft in four phases plus ancillary buildings on 315 acres, which matches the 2023 planning filing as reported, and Evergy as utility; no per-building size or count is stated. No facility MW load is stated in any source fetched; the 400 MW is new carbon-free generation (Beavertail Solar) contracted to offset demand, not the campus load.

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
  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • 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.
Cooling method and water use
The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
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.
Permanent jobs promised
The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
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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Our reporting on this site

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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) in Kansas City?

Nothing on record as of October 9, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri 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.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center)?

No lawsuit over Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) appears in the record we track as of October 9, 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 Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center) 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 Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center), and how big is it?

Google is the operator on record. We hold 57 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Google Kansas City Data Center (Hunt Midwest Business Center)," updated October 9, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/google-hunt-midwest-kc-northland-mo.

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/google-hunt-midwest-kc-northland-mo, retrieved October 11, 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.Google announces $1 billion data center at Hunt Midwest Business Center (2024-03-20) · Hunt Midwest · retrieved October 9, 2026
  2. 2.Google looks to invest $600m in Kansas City data center development (2019-07-23) · Institutional Real Estate, Inc. · retrieved October 9, 2026
  3. 3.Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland (2019-07-23) · Baxtel · retrieved October 9, 2026
  4. 4.Google proposes to build a data center in Kansas City (2023-09-11) · Baxtel · retrieved October 9, 2026
  5. 5.Google announces $1B data center in Kansas City's Northland · KSHB · retrieved October 9, 2026
  6. 6.Google confirms $10B, 500-acre data center in Kansas City's Northland (Kansas City Star, 2026-02-14) · Kansas City Star (via Yahoo News) · retrieved October 9, 2026
  7. 7.Kansas City, Missouri - Google Data Center Location · Google · retrieved October 9, 2026
  8. 8.Google: Project Shale Data Center (listing) · Baxtel · retrieved October 9, 2026
  9. 9.Google buys 236 acres of land in Kansas City (2021-12-27) · Baxtel · retrieved October 9, 2026

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