Data Center Registry
White Cloud Acres
Barnard, Nodaway County, Missouri
White Cloud Acres is a proposed data center in Barnard, Missouri (Nodaway County), operated by Scale Microgrids. The public record puts it at 600 MW planned, a reported $4 billion investment.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Scale Microgrids
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Near 35045 Jet Road, east of Highway 71, Barnard, Nodaway County, MO
- Coordinates
- 40.2528, -94.9436 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- 600 MW planned
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- $4 billion
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Power source
- On site gas
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- 0.2 million gallons a day, reported
- 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
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of August 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over White Cloud Acres in Barnard, Nodaway 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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Power and water
Developer plans co-located on-site natural-gas generation; local reporting also associates the project with Evergy's separate ~440 MW Mullin Creek plant nearby, though Evergy describes Mullin Creek as general grid capacity, not a dedicated PPA.
~200,000 gallons/day per county reporting; cooling type not specified.
Notes on the record
Scale Microgrids (acquired by EQT Transition Infrastructure, Jan 2025) proposal remains in the planning/discussion phase as of 2026-04-29 reporting; Nodaway County enacted a temporary moratorium on new data center proposals dated 2026-07-21. Organized opposition group 'Nodaway Says No' has drawn 7,000+ petition signatures. Nodaway County has no zoning ordinance, limiting regulatory oversight.
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.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- 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.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the White Cloud Acres data center in Barnard?
Nothing on record as of August 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over White Cloud Acres in Barnard, Nodaway 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 White Cloud Acres data center?
No lawsuit over White Cloud Acres appears in the record we track as of August 24, 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 White Cloud Acres use?
0.2 million gallons a day is the reported figure on record. ~200,000 gallons/day per county reporting; cooling type not specified.
Who operates White Cloud Acres, and how big is it?
Scale Microgrids is the operator on record. Capacity on record is 600 MW.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "White Cloud Acres," updated August 24, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/white-cloud-acres-barnard-mo.
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/white-cloud-acres-barnard-mo, 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.Proposed $4 Billion White Cloud Acres AI Data Center in Rural Barnard · Nodaway County, MO · retrieved August 24, 2026
- 2.With little public notice, data center developers consider Nodaway County · KXCV-KRNW · retrieved August 24, 2026
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