Leavenworth County is the latest Kansas City-area community that could be seeing a data center come online. During a nearly six-hour work session at the March 18 Leavenworth County Commissioner meeting, commissioners heard from Kansas state employees and developer Cloverleaf about a proposed hyperscale data center.
While no official filings have been made with the county regarding data center development, Leavenworth County Commissioner Mike Stieben told KSHB 41 News the proposal is “well beyond its preliminary phases.” The project would be located on nearly 1,000 acres of land on Tailgate Ranch, just south of Tonganoxie.
While specific details about Project Bluestem are still unknown, hyperscale data centers use upwards of 75 megawatts of electricity a day. That’s the equivalent of powering 25,000 homes or a small city. The massive tech campuses use millions of gallons of water daily to cool the thousands of computers and hardware servers inside the buildings.
Read more: KSHB News
