Data center restrictions tracker · Missouri

Platte County, Missouri: data center zoning exclusion (2025)

Data snapshot 2026-08-15 · part of Pricing the Fear of Data Centers

Platte County, Missouri, adopted a data-center zoning exclusion on October 1, 2025. Its status in this snapshot is enacted.

The record reads: "Project Kestrel, a $100B multi-phase data center campus by Shenandoah Computing LLC (linked to Google), proposes six hyperscale data centers totaling 1.8 million sq ft on 379 acres at the KCI-29 mega-site north of Kansas City International… (datacentertracker.org)."

Details

ActionClassStatusDateMW thresholdScopeSource
Zoning exclusionrestrictionenactedOctober 1, 2025county-widedatacentertracker.org

Jurisdiction type: county. County: Platte County. Dataset: datacentertracker. Snapshot August 15, 2026; documented actions, not a census.

Missouri context

Missouri has 28 documented local actions across 26 jurisdictions in this snapshot. At the state level, Evergy territory has a large-load tariff (enacted, November 13, 2025).

A town that says no to a data center gives up local tax revenue, not jobs: one large campus pays $2M to $90M a year depending on the tax regime, against roughly 50 permanent jobs. The parent piece prices it and lists the conditions that beat a ban.

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