Google Kansas City East Under construction
Epoch AI estimates ~105 MW.
Key facts
- Operator
- Owner
- Size
- 105 MW
- Location
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Stage today
- Under construction
Source
read 2026-08-14
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.
What has happened so far (8 events)
- 2019-07-22incentive
Port KC board voted to approve issuing bonds and a property tax abatement for a potential $600 million Google data center on 78 acres at Hunt Midwest Business Center in the Northland. · source - 2024-03-20announcement
Google announced a $1 billion data center at Hunt Midwest Business Center on NE Parvin Road in Kansas City, with a target opening as soon as 2025, partnering with Evergy, Ranger Power, and DESRI on 400 MW of new carbon-free energy capacity from the Missouri-based Beavertail Solar farm. · source - 2024-03-20incentive
Google committed $100,000-plus to the North Kansas City School District STEAM program and announced its Skilled Trades and Readiness (STAR) paid training program for the Kansas City area, in collaboration with the Missouri Works Initiative and Urban League. · source - 2024-04-04coverage
Flatland KC reported that Google's $1 billion data center announcement would add significantly to area electricity demand, complicating Evergy's carbon-reduction goals alongside other large projects like the Panasonic battery plant. · source - 2024-11-12coverage
Flatland KC reported Google had arranged with Evergy, Ranger Power, and DESRI to add 400 MW of carbon-free energy capacity from the Beavertail Solar farm to power its $1 billion data facility at Hunt Midwest Business Center. · source - 2025-09-08coverage
KCUR identified AG Rose Solutions as the Google affiliate LLC behind the Kansas City data center, noting the facility was under construction; David Thomas signed the Missouri secretary of state filing for the LLC. · source - 2026-03-22construction
KCUR reported Google's first KC-area campus near Worlds of Fun was still under construction and reportedly drawing roughly 1,000 construction workers. · source - 2026-04-29incentive
Google and Keystone Community Corporation launched OnRamp, a two-part AI education initiative in Kansas City; the OnRamp Start cohort of 25 participants began May 5, 2026, with a youth-focused OnRamp Foundations track starting in June 2026. · 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 Kansas City 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 Kansas City 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 39.150, -94.470 — 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.
Recent news
- Data center déjà vu: Another Kansas city argues ban can’t be brought by petition
- Data center déjà vu: Another Kansas city argues ban can’t be brought by petition
- Kansas City officials denied a plan for downtown data center. Some residents vow to keep fighting
Automated news aggregation, not human-verified — follow each link to the original outlet. Part of the story tracker, 3 headlines archived.
Around here
- Kansas City community briefing — Enactedterm not documented
- Missouri briefing — rates, grid carbon, PUC contacts.
Other tracked projects in Missouri
- Nebius Independence campus — Independence, 5 mi Approved
- Wildwood Ranch data center — Joplin (Jasper County), 143 mi Approved
- Amazon Montgomery County Data Center — Montgomery County, 160 mi Under construction
- Midtown Data Center — St. Louis (Midtown), 231 mi Approved
Cite this page: GridWatch AI, “Google Kansas City East”, aigridwatch.com/projects/google-kansas-city-east, 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.
Part of the data center project tracker — open data, CC BY 4.0 (JSON · CSV).