Project dossier · Montgomery County, Missouri

Amazon Montgomery County Data Center Under construction

Multibillion-dollar Amazon DC; announced amid statewide regulatory debate (HB 3362 failed).

Key facts

Operator: Amazon
Location: Montgomery County, Missouri
Stage today: Under construction

Source
read 2026-08-19

What to do next

Next step: Under construction — pull the approved conditions and permits and hold the builder to them; an expansion or a new building reopens the record.

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What has happened so far (15 events)

2024-11-01filing
Administrative review completed for the Amazon-linked Project Green data center land-use proposal in Montgomery County near New Florence. · source
2024-12-01vote
Montgomery County Commission approved the still-unnamed Project Green development (later confirmed as Amazon). · source
2025-12-03rezoning
Montgomery County Commission approved land for two large-scale data center projects (Project Green/Amazon ~1,000 acres and Project Spade/Google ~780 acres) at the I-70/Highway 19 interchange. · source
2025-12-19incentive
Montgomery County Commission voted unanimously to approve a tax abatement framework for the AWS data center (min. $8.5B capital investment, 4-17 buildings, projected $326M-$1.5B in property tax revenue, min. 150 FT jobs at ~$85,000/yr). · source
2026-01-01public-comment
A town hall on the Google/Amazon data center projects drew hundreds of residents to Montgomery County High School, with attendees voicing uncertainty and fear. · source
2026-02-16lawsuit
Preserve Montgomery County LLC sued Montgomery County and the Missouri DED alleging roughly a dozen Missouri Sunshine Law violations tied to the Amazon data center approval — closed-door sessions, NDAs with Amazon, improper meeting notice. Sought invalidation of the county agreements. · source
2026-02-26filing
Missouri Reps. Wellenkamp and Costlow introduced HB 3362, the AI Infrastructure, Grid Integrity and Water Resources Protection Act, requiring large-load customers to cover grid-infrastructure costs, obtain DNR permits for large water use, and including a grid-emergency kill switch provision. · source
2026-03-01hearing
Missouri House committee held a hearing on HB 3362 with almost exclusively supportive testimony; Montgomery County resident Sylvia Kueny testified about community concerns. The bill never advanced to a floor vote. · source
2026-04-09lawsuit
A separate citizens group Wake Up JeffCo filed its own lawsuit challenging data-center development processes in the region. · source
2026-06-15announcement
Amazon and Gov. Kehoe announced a $10 billion AWS data center campus (~1,000 acres) in Montgomery County: 400+ direct jobs, Amazon covering 100% of grid connection costs, and over $7 million in community contributions. Announcement came while Sunshine Law litigation was still pending. · source
2026-06-16construction
Gov. Kehoe attended a groundbreaking event for the Amazon data center project in Montgomery City. · source
2026-06-18protest
About 100 protesters rallied in Jefferson City ahead of a data-center policy summit, citing the Amazon Montgomery County announcement and warning officials they would be voted out over inadequate corporate tax contributions. · source
2026-06-23public-comment
Amazon hosted a public information open house at Montgomery County Middle School while the Missouri Rural Crisis Center held a concurrent press conference outside voicing opposition. · source
2026-06-29report
St. Louis Public Radio reported the Missouri legislature passed no data-center regulation this session despite HB 3362/HB 3390, and that a House Special Committee hearing is set for September 2026. · source
2026-07-02coverage
Missouri Independent reported that data-center backlash spilled into Missouri primary races, with GOP candidates demanding stronger regulation and fair tax contribution from developers. · source

Find the paper trail

Find the paper trail (0 filed · 12 places to look)

State environmental permits

Backup generators, water withdrawal and stormwater are permitted by the state, usually earlier and in more detail than anything filed locally.

Missouri DNR — Air Pollution Control ProgramThe program page: which permits this state requires, and the office that issues them.
Search Missouri DNR — Air Pollution Control Program for this projectsearchThis state publishes no searchable permit database, so a written records request to the agency is the reliable route. Use this search only to find the right office.

County & town filings

The rezoning application, site plan, traffic and noise studies, staff report and every revision.

Search Montgomery County planning filingssearchPlanning departments post application files under many different names. Find the department, then ask the clerk for the application number — that number unlocks everything else.
Search Montgomery County property records / GISsearchThe parcel record names the buying LLC and the sale date, which is what ties an anonymous filing to an operator.

Utility & grid records

The electricity request is filed with the grid operator and the utility long before the town hears about it — and states the real load.

MISO (Midwest & Gulf) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Southwest Power Pool (Plains) — interconnection queueRequested megawatts, queue position and target in-service date. The MW here is the real number; the one at the town meeting is often phase one.
Missouri Public Service Commission — docket searchSpecial contracts, large-load tariffs and rate cases are docketed here. Testimony and exhibits are public, and are usually more candid than the press release.
FERC eLibraryFederal filings: transmission agreements, interconnection service agreements, and co-location disputes.
Search the serving utility for a will-serve lettersearchThe will-serve or load-service letter is the utility's own written commitment. Ask the utility and the PUC for it by name — it is frequently the first document to exist.

Federal databases

Works anywhere, and covers the operator's record at its other sites.

EPA ECHO facility searchEvery federally-reported air, water and waste permit at a facility, plus its inspection and violation history. Search by address or draw a radius around the site. This project's locality centres on 38.950, -91.500 — search that point with a 5-mile radius.
EPA EnvirofactsThe same underlying records, queryable by county — useful for 'what else is permitted near this site' rather than one facility.
EPA Facility Registry ServiceResolves the shell LLC on a permit to the facility it belongs to. Worth a look when the filing name means nothing locally.

These are places to look, not evidence that anything has been filed. Links were checked on 2026-08-21; search links are queries, not records. What to ask for.

Around here

Missouri briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.

Other tracked projects in Missouri

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Nebius Independence campus — Independence, 157 mi Approved
Google Kansas City East — Kansas City, 160 mi Under construction
Wildwood Ranch data center — Joplin (Jasper County), 209 mi Approved

Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Amazon Montgomery County Data Center”, aigridwatch.com/projects/amazon-montgomery-county-mo, retrieved 2026-10-11.

As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing

A working set of identified proposals a community can track, not a census — most of the country's activity is not in here yet. Pennsylvania is the exception: its rows are synced from PA DEP's own data-center permit tracker, so the state's coverage is close to complete and carries the permit trail with it. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to reporting or the governing body's own record and were read on that date; rows marked *unverified* have no source on record — a lead to check, not a fact to cite. **Stage is derived, not asserted.** *Hearing scheduled*, *Awaiting decision*, *Approved* and *Withdrawn* are computed from each row's milestone dates on every rebuild, so a hearing date that has passed stops reading 'scheduled'. Hearings get moved and projects re-file under new names — treat a scheduled date as the earliest to act by, and confirm with the clerk before relying on it. Leads are mined into data/project_candidates.json and promoted here only after a human reads a primary source.

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