20-Story Data Center Wants Downtown Kansas City
385 feet tall. 20 floors. Onsite power generation. Brick, glass and metal cladding. Ground floor retail. No incentives asked for.
And only 35MW continuous draw?
A normal hyperscale data center pulls 500MW+. This thing is either the world's most overbuilt edge compute node or there's something else going on here that nobody's explaining.
I just got done sitting in on a Downtown Neighborhood Association Meeting with the development team for this project. A post will come soon, but key details: - Data Center with Ground Floor Retail Space - 384ft tall - Clad in brick, glass & metal - No incentives are being sought



The specs on this proposed downtown KC data center don't add up, and nobody's asking why a 385-foot tower needs to exist for 35MW of load.
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