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Meta Kansas City Data Center

Meta lists a data center at Kansas City, Missouri among the sites it operates. It is running; 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.

Last verified · 11 sources, 1 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

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
Meta
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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast 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

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it Meta 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.

DateWhoDecisionSource
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
DateWhoDecisionSource
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

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta Kansas City Data Center at Kansas City, Missouri on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]

The full Meta Kansas City Data Center timeline, in order

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.

  • This record: Running, 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.

Keep going

The county Jackson County 5 projects on the record. The state Data centers in Missouri Every Missouri project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Meta Kansas City Data Center?

Meta is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does Meta Kansas City Data Center say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does Meta Kansas City Data Center stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Meta lists Meta 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?

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 first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. 'Historic' $800 million Meta (Facebook) facility coming to Platte/Clay county line - The Platte County Citizen, The Platte County Citizen, March 31, 2022, query feed
  2. Meta Announces $800M Data Center in Kansas City - CommercialSearch, CommercialSearch, March 25, 2022, query feed
  3. Social media giant plans to occupy big Northland data center - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, March 10, 2022, query feed
  4. Meta acquires 500 more acres in Diode’s Golden Plains park in Kansas City, Missouri - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, January 12, 2023, query feed
  5. Exclusive: School district's tax windfall delayed from KC Meta data center - The Business Journals, The Business Journals, March 3, 2025, query feed
  6. Meta Data Center In Kansas City Officially Operates, Ready To Serve Data Traffic - VOI.ID, VOI.ID, August 22, 2025, query feed
  7. Meta chooses Kansas City for construction of $800M data center - KSHB 41 Kansas City, KSHB 41 Kansas City, March 24, 2022, query feed
  8. Facebook parent Meta announces new $800M data center in Missouri - KSDK, KSDK, March 24, 2022, query feed
  9. Meta confirms data center development plans for Kansas City, Missouri - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, March 24, 2022, query feed
  10. Meta's Northland data center leads to legal battle between father and son - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, July 10, 2024, query feed

11 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Meta Kansas City Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-kansas-city-data-center-mo, last verified September 17, 2026.

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Slug
meta-kansas-city-data-center-mo
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
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