Google Kansas City data center
Google lists a data center at Kansas City, Missouri and says it is being built. It is being built; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- Not disclosed
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | Not disclosed | |||
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | as stated by the source | September 17, 2026 | ||
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What was decided
Acts of Jackson County and Kansas City about data centers, on the record with their source. A rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independence | In Independence Missouri, voters recalled a City Council member who supported tax breaks for a proposed data center | latimes.com | |
| Independence | Independence, MO residents held a recall vote related to a data center decision | dailykos.com | |
| Independence | Missouri voters recalled councilman over Nebius data center tax break | yahoo.com | |
| Independence | An Independence councilman was recalled by voters in his district after his vote for data center tax incentives | kshb.com | |
| Independence | John Perkins, Independence councilman, was recalled after voting to approve a multibillion dollar data center | kmbc.com | |
| Independence | Independence councilman faces recall over data center vote | kctv5.com |
2 earlier decisions on the county's rows
| Date | Who | Decision | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independence | An Independence council member faced a recall election after voting for a data center | kshb.com | |
| Independence | Bly Road residents filed a 52 page lawsuit to stop the Independence AI data center project | kshb.com |
What happened
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· Status: being built (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
Google lists Google Kansas City data center at Kansas City, Missouri on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
The site
Where in Kansas City is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Kansas City, not a building, and the outline is Jackson County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Being built, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 17 other published records in Missouri
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.
Questions about this project
4 questions answered from the record
Who is building Google Kansas City data center?
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Google is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does Google Kansas City data center say it needs?
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Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does Google Kansas City data center stand today?
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It is being built; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Google lists Google Kansas City data center at Kansas City, Missouri on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
What has Kansas City or Jackson County decided about it?
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Independence: In Independence Missouri, voters recalled a City Council member who supported tax breaks for a proposed data center (reported September 14, 2026, source); and Independence: Independence, MO residents held a recall vote related to a data center decision (reported September 3, 2026, source). 8 events are on the county's rows; a rule about the area is not a decision about this record.
Sources
Primary documents
- Google: Data center locations, Google, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- Google reveals plans for a new $1 billion data center in Kansas City - fox4kc.com, fox4kc.com, March 20, 2024, query feed
- Exclusive: Google buys nearly 500 acres at a second, larger Northland data center site - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, January 9, 2024, query feed
- Google confirms plans for $1B data center in Hunt Midwest Business Park - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, March 20, 2024, query feed
- Google selects Kansas City for new data center - KOMU 8, KOMU 8, March 20, 2024, query feed
- Google to Build $1B Data Center in Kansas City - Connect CRE, Connect CRE, March 21, 2024, query feed
- 'We need jobs, not promises': Community members push back against data center tax breaks - KSHB 41 Kansas City, KSHB 41 Kansas City, April 29, 2025, query feed
- News | Google’s Pick of Kansas City for Data Center Shows Midwest’s Growing Digital Allure - CoStar, CoStar, March 28, 2024, query feed
- Google applies to develop Kansas City data center - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, September 11, 2023, query feed
- Google files first project plan for large data center campus in KC's Northland - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, October 24, 2023, query feed
- Tax breaks for Google data center spark protest at Port KC meeting - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, April 29, 2025, query feed
- Major tech company to build new $10 billion 500-acre campus in Northland - fox4kc.com, fox4kc.com, July 28, 2025, query feed
- Google buys more land at another Northland data center site - fox4kc.com, fox4kc.com, January 10, 2024, query feed
1 more source
- Google to build $1 billion data center in Kansas City - KCTV, KCTV, March 20, 2024, query feed
14 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "Google Kansas City data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-kansas-city-data-center-mo, last verified September 17, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "Google Kansas City data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/google-kansas-city-data-center-mo. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- google-kansas-city-data-center-mo
- Status value
- under_construction
- Stage
- Being built
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/mo/jackson-county/kansas-city
- Coordinates
- 39.1237467, -94.5539473
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
- Coordinate source
- tigerweb city centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 14, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- not_disclosed
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- Not disclosed
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-17