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Project Kestrel

Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri

PermittedContestedRecord updated October 13, 2026

Project Kestrel is a permitted data center in Kansas City, Missouri (Platte County), operated by Shenandoah Computing LLC. The public record puts it at announced August 26, 2025, 379 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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Facility record

Permitted

Operator
Shenandoah Computing LLC
Facility type
Data center
Location
Southwest corner of Missouri Highway 92 and N. Winan Avenue (KCI 29 Logistics Park), Kansas City, Platte County, MO
Coordinates
39.3471, -94.7039 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
379 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
August 26, 2025
Utility
Evergy
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
Contested
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. Project Kestrel in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Platte County Presiding Commissioner Scott Fricker publicly said he cannot support Project Kestrel.

A new status, a permit, a reception finding, or a lawsuit. Nothing else, ever.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

Platte County Presiding Commissioner Scott Fricker publicly said he cannot support Project Kestrel. He objected to tax subsidies for large corporations, potential water and electricity rate impacts, and limited transparency from Port KC, and called for Port KC reform. No votes or lawsuits reported.

Source: FOX4 Kansas City

Power and water

Project commits to a minimum of 50% of all energy from carbon-free resources; development includes an on-site power substation.

Notes on the record

Six hyperscale data center buildings planned (up to 1.8M sq ft total) on ~379-430 acres within Hunt Midwest KCI 29 Logistics Park, Platte County. Distinct from Google Project Mica, a separate campus ~9km east in Clay County. OPERATOR ATTRIBUTION, checked 2026-09-10: the consulted sources name the developer only as Shenandoah Computing LLC. KSHB names Shenandoah as the applicant and mentions Google solely in a context sentence about campuses ALREADY under construction in the Northland; Port KC does not mention Shenandoah at all. No consulted source ties Shenandoah to Google or any named hyperscaler, so no end-tenant is recorded here. An aggregator listing attributes this to Google; this dataset has previously found that aggregator wrong about an operator, so it is not relied on. INVESTMENT, checked 2026-09-10: the $100B figure is the ceiling of a conduit bond series Shenandoah asked Port KC to authorize (KSHB: "a series of conduit bonds that could reach $100 billion"), NOT a stated project investment, so no investment figure is recorded. Port KC approved a Chapter 100-style industrial development plan on 2025-08-28 with a 35-year real/personal property tax exemption and sales-tax relief on construction materials; no single abatement dollar total was stated, only projected net new tax revenue of ~$110M across all phases, so no subsidy is recorded. Local press (fox4kc, 2025-11) reports Platte County’s presiding commissioner publicly opposed the tax-break package; as of September 2026, that page could not be read and archive.org was rate-limiting at retrieval, so this is an unverified lead, not a sourced community finding. Phase 1 was slated to begin 2026; not confirmed started.

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
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.

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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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Project Kestrel data center in Kansas City?

Yes. Project Kestrel in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Platte County Presiding Commissioner Scott Fricker publicly said he cannot support Project Kestrel.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Project Kestrel data center?

No lawsuit over Project Kestrel appears in the record we track as of October 13, 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 Project Kestrel use?

No water withdrawal figure for Project Kestrel 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 Project Kestrel, and how big is it?

Shenandoah Computing LLC is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 379 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Project Kestrel," updated October 13, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/shenandoah-project-kestrel-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/shenandoah-project-kestrel-kc-northland-mo, 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. 1.Tech firm eyes development for 6 data centers north of Kansas City International Airport · KSHB · retrieved September 10, 2026
  2. 2.$100 Billion Data Center Development to bring Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs to the Northland · Port KC · retrieved September 10, 2026
  3. 3.Project Kestrel Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved September 10, 2026
  4. 4.KCI 29 Logistics Park (OpenStreetMap) · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 10, 2026
  5. 5.Platte County commissioner can't support $100 billion Northland data center · FOX4 Kansas City · retrieved October 13, 2026

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