Missouri: data centers & your electric bill
As of October 1, 2026, AI GridWatch tracks 18 data center moratoriums or pushback actions in Missouri: 17 in force, 1 expired, rejected or rescinded. The state has 55 tracked data center facilities using an estimated 1.2 TWh of electricity a year.
Everything GridWatch tracks in Missouri on one page — proposed projects, moratoriums, permits, officials, and the 2026 ballot.
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As of July 2026 (3m ago) · changes over months · Source: U.S. Data Center Power Map by State — ElectricChoice.com compilation (updated July 2026; CC-BY 4.0). Underlying load research: LBNL 2024 US Data Center Energy Usage Report; rates: EIA
Facility counts vary by directory because each one draws the boundary differently — DataCenterMap lists 44 in Alabama where this table says 35, since it counts small network rooms alongside hyperscale campuses. Cite the TWh figure rather than the facility count when you can; it is the number that speaks to grid impact. Underlying load research is LBNL-2001637 (Dec 2024).
1Proposed data centers in Missouri (5)
0 still live · 5 decided or withdrawn. Each name links to the full dossier — ownership, intelligence log, and where to read the paper trail.
| Project | Where | Size | Behind it | Stage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midtown Data Center | St. Louis (Midtown) | 120 MW | — | Approved | Source read 2026-08-19 |
| Nebius Independence campus | Independence | 800 MW | Nebius | Approved | Source read 2026-08-23 |
| Wildwood Ranch data center | Joplin (Jasper County) | 600 MW | ReLoad (Scale Microgrids) | Approved | Source read 2026-08-23 |
| Amazon Montgomery County Data Center | Montgomery County | — | Amazon | Under construction | Source read 2026-08-19 |
| Google Kansas City East | Kansas City | 105 MW | Under construction | Source read 2026-08-14 |
2Pushback already happening in Missouri
| Where | Level | Status | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peculiar | Local | Enactedno end date — permanent | Board of Aldermen reversed an earlier zoning change and struck 'data center' from the light-industrial code, permanently blocking Diode Ventures' $1.5B Harper Road Technology Park. A 100-day moratorium (Aug 2024) preceded the permanent change | SourceNews read 2026-08-13 |
| Jackson County | Local | Enactedexpires 2026-12-19 | 180-day moratorium on data center and battery storage land use applications, 8-0 (one excused). Amended up from 120 days | SourceNews read 2026-08-13 |
| Springfield | Local | Enactedexpires soon — 2026-11-17 | 120-day administrative delay, 8-0. Expires Nov 17 or when council passes a two-reading bill. Public input sessions to follow | SourceNews read 2026-08-13 |
| City of St. Charles | Local | Enactedno end date — permanent | Permanent ban — data centers removed as a permitted use from all zoning districts, 7-1 (Bill 14085). Triggered by 'Project Cumulus' proposal near city water wells. Initial 1-year moratorium Aug 2025 | SourceNews read 2026-08-13 |
| St. Charles County | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-01-13 | 6-month moratorium on projects >100,000 sq ft or >5 MW, unanimous. Third-party study of health, infrastructure, and quality-of-life impacts commissioned | SourceNews read 2026-08-13 |
| Columbia | Local | Enactedfixed term, end date not recorded | 1-year moratorium pausing data center permits and conditional-use applications, 6-0. Council approved data center definition and zoning criteria simultaneously | SourceNews read 2026-08-13 |
| Neosho | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-07-07 | One-year moratorium inside the city, unanimous, while the city writes standards for construction and operation; at least one company had approached property owners about buying land in the city limits. Coverage dated the vote to a Tuesday, matching the Jul 7 recorded upstream rather than the Jul 8 in the copy | SourceNews read 2026-08-23 |
| Camdenton | Local | Enactedexpires 2027-05-05 | One-year moratorium on data center approvals, unanimous, adopted the same night the board rescinded its support for a proposed opportunity zone. The city found its code does not adequately address the land use, infrastructure and utility demands of data centers. Mayor John McNabb said the city may not need the full twelve months before adopting an ordinance | SourceNews read 2026-08-23 |
| Independence | City | Enactedexpires 2027-01-02 | 180-day moratorium on new data center and battery energy storage permits. Does not affect previously approved Nebius project. | SourceOfficial read 2026-09-06 |
| Marion County | County | Rescindedterm not documented | 12-month moratorium enacted June 15; lifted Aug 26, 2026, replaced by task force to study data center regulations. | SourceNews read 2026-09-06 |
| Kansas City | Local | Enactedterm not documented | Kansas City, MO City Council adopted stricter zoning code on Jan 15, 2026. Reclassifies data centers from commercial to industrial facilities and limits them to specific zoning districts. Also directed city manager to evaluate impact of data center development. This is a zoning restriction, not a moratorium per se. | SourceNews read 2026-09-06 |
| Ralls County | County | Enactedexpires 2027-08-20 | Commissioners signed a one-year moratorium on economic development projects and data centers after learning a property owner may have signed a deal to sell 53 acres to a data center company. Commissioners want voters to decide on the April ballot whether the county should allow data centers. | SourceNews read 2026-09-06 |
| Pacific | City | Enactedexpires 2027-08-04 | Board of Aldermen unanimously approved 12-month moratorium on data center applications; followed opposition to proposed 500-acre data center near Crooked Creek Farm. | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
| St. Peters | City | Enactedexpires 2027-05-14 | City council unanimously passed one-year moratorium on zoning amendments, site plans, special use permits and building permits for data centers. | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
| Webster County | County | Enactedexpires 2026-12-16 | County Commission adopted 6-month moratorium on data centers, solar, wind and battery storage in unincorporated areas; no countywide planning and zoning. | SourceOfficial read 2026-09-11 |
| Oak Grove | City | Enactedexpires 2027-08-05 | Board of Aldermen enacted one-year moratorium on data center proposals; preemptive, no active proposals. | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
| Nodaway County | County | Enactedexpires 2027-01-21 | County Commission enacted 6-month moratorium while negotiating development agreement with Scale Microgrids ($6.3B White Cloud Acres campus); can end early if developer provides required answers. | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
| Palmyra | City | Enactedterm not documented | City council approved moratorium on data centers; residents also petitioned for audit of city finances. | SourceNews read 2026-09-11 |
As of August 2026 (2m ago) · changes weekly — re-check before citing
Illustrative rather than exhaustive — dozens of localities churn weekly, and this tracks the ones we have read a source for. **Each row carries its own provenance.** Rows showing a verification date link to the ordinance, the enacting body's own page, or a datable report of the vote, and were read on that date. Rows marked *unverified* came from bulk compilation and have not been checked against a primary source — the locality, the year, and the status may all be off. Verify one of those with the town clerk before citing it as precedent. **Expiry is derived, not asserted.** A row with a documented end date flips to *Expired* on its own once that date passes. A time-limited moratorium whose start date was never documented keeps showing as enacted — that is a known gap, not a claim that it is still in force. Moratoriums are also routinely extended, so an expiry date is the earliest it could have ended, not proof that it did.
3Other Missouri communities in the news (1)
Places with archived data-center coverage but no moratorium on file. Grouped automatically from headlines and not verified — a lead worth reading, not a claim to cite.
- St. Joseph — 5 archived headlines
4Known data center campuses in Missouri
| Operator | Location | Tenant | Filing LLC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meta | Kansas City | Meta | Codename shells: Greater Kudu, Raven Northbrook, Stadion, Wobniar, Pinnacle Mountain |
⏳ No verification date recorded · changes over months · Source: Operator ownership & filing-LLC naming patterns — compiled from operator releases and county filings, then checked against SEC EDGAR full-text search. Composite, not a single citation: look the entity up yourself before naming it in a filing
Each row carries its own attribution level — first-party rows come from the operator's own site, but colocation and REIT ownership was compiled from trade press and never passed an independent fact-check. Check the attribution column before citing a row.
5Every data center already built in Missouri
The campuses above are the ones GridWatch tracks by operator and filing LLC. For the full inventory — street addresses of every existing facility, including the smaller colocation and network sites — DataCenterMap keeps a public directory for Missouri.
Browse the Missouri directory →
Two caveats before you cite it at a hearing: it lists facilities that already exist, so a newly proposed campus will not appear; and it counts a small network room the same as a hyperscale campus, so the facility count is not a measure of power draw or community impact.
6Case studies
Peculiar, MO — The town deleted 'data center' from its zoning code
Peculiar had already cleared the way for Diode Ventures' $1.5B Harper Road Technology Park by adding a 'data center' definition to its light-industrial zoning code. After hundreds of residents from Peculiar and neighbouring Raymore turned out against it, the Board of Aldermen voted unanimously in October 2024 to strike that definition back out — blocking the project without ever passing a moratorium. Removing a permitted use is a quieter tool than a ban, and here it was a faster one.
7Your regulator
Missouri Public Service Commission — website · file a complaint
Official state energy data: EIA Missouri electricity profile — generation, prices, and consumption from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
8Where the Missouri paper trail lives
Air & environmental permits: Missouri DNR — Air Pollution Control Program
No searchable register. Missouri does not publish a permit database you can query. A public-records request to the agency is the only route to the file.
Grid interconnection queue: MISO (Midwest & Gulf) · Southwest Power Pool (Plains)
A routing hint only — several states are split between markets, and the serving utility is the only authority on which queue a given site is in.
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.
9Your federal delegation and governor
Grades cross party — this is an issue axis, not a partisan one. A blank grade means no documented action was located, never that the official is neutral.
| Grade | Official | Documented action (sourced) | Reach them |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Mike Kehoe Republican · Governor | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Eric Schmitt Republican · Senator · next on the ballot 2028 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| A | Josh Hawley Republican · Senator · next on the ballot 2030 | Co-introduced the GRID Act to stop data centers from raising Americans' electricity costs. — Sens. Hawley & Blumenthal — GRID Act to stop data centers raising electric bills (2026) Guardrails Introduced the bipartisan GRID Act to require data centers to use power sources separate from the grid and disclose usage, demanded answers from Ameren on data-center deals and rate increases, and asked EIA with Sen. Warren for mandatory data-center energy reporting. sources | site · contact |
| — | Wesley Bell Democratic · Representative 1 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Ann Wagner Republican · Representative 2 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Robert F. Onder, Jr. Republican · Representative 3 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Mark Alford Republican · Representative 4 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Emanuel Cleaver Democratic · Representative 5 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Sam Graves Republican · Representative 6 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Eric Burlison Republican · Representative 7 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
| — | Jason Smith Republican · Representative 8 | No documented action on data centers located | site · contact |
Roster: regenerated by scripts/refresh_officials.py (Senate XML + congress-legislators + current governors).
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102026 U.S. Senate
Neither Missouri Senate seat is on the 2026 ballot. Your senators are still the people who vote on federal siting and tax policy — their records are in the delegation table above.
112026 U.S. House races in Missouri (8)
A documented data-center record exists in 7 of 8 districts. A candidate with no badge colour has said nothing we could locate — that is a gap in the record, not a neutral position. ★ marks an incumbent.
| District | PVI | Incumbent | Candidates |
|---|---|---|---|
| MO-1 | D+29 | Wesley Bell | Wesley Bell ★ Paul Berry Tom Schmitz |
| MO-2 | R+6 | Ann Wagner | Ann Wagner ★ Fred Wellman Brandon Daugherty |
| MO-3 | R+10 | Bob Onder | Bob Onder ★ Bethany Mann Jim Higgins |
| MO-4 | R+10 | Mark Alford | Mark Alford ★ Jordan Herrera Thomas Holbrook |
| MO-5 | R+9 | Emanuel Cleaver | Emanuel Cleaver ★ Rick Brattin Randy Langkraehr |
| MO-6 | R+13 | Sam Graves | Chris Stigall Josh Smead Andy Maidment |
| MO-7 | R+21 | Eric Burlison | Eric Burlison ★ Missi Hesketh Kevin Craig |
| MO-8 | R+27 | Jason Smith | Jason Smith ★ Chris Reichard Rebecca Sharpe Lombard |
The documented records (7 districts)
MO-1
Wesley Bell (Democratic) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
MO-2
Ann Wagner (Republican) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
MO-3
Bob Onder (Republican) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
MO-4
Mark Alford (Republican) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
MO-5
Emanuel Cleaver (Democratic) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
MO-7
Eric Burlison (Republican) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
MO-8
Jason Smith (Republican) · incumbent Consensus vote only
On the record only for voting yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act (417-3). No other data-center record located yet.
- Voted yes on H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, which passed 417-3 (roll call 312). It directs state utility commissions to consider rate designs making data centers with 100 MW or more of peak demand at one site pay the full incremental cost of the generation and grid upgrades they require. A near-unanimous vote: shown on the record, not scored on its own. (2026-09-16 — source)
Record read 2026-09-22.
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