Project Bluestem
Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County, KS
Project Bluestem is an announced data center project in Tonganoxie, KS, backed by Cloverleaf Infrastructure. The project is sized at 1,200 MW. 1,000-acre hyperscale data center campus plus an on-site gas-fired power plant, proposed by Cloverleaf Infrastructure near the Tonganoxie Business Park, Leavenworth County. Originally pitched in March 2026 at a smaller scale; developer later doubled the electricity request to ~1.2GW and added the gas plant component. Faced major organized opposition: 1,100+ residents attended an August 2026 public meeting, and the 'Tongie Data Center WatchDog' citizen group formed and reportedly plans legal action. The county's temporary moratorium expired without a formal commission vote on the proposal itself as of the source article, so the project remains actively pending, neither approved nor rejected.
- 1,200 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced March 2026
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
- OperationalNot yet
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Records and documentation
Kansas state legislation
- SB553 - Data centers and water use consumption reportingRequires water use consumption reporting related to data centers.Download
- SB 98 (Data Center Sales Tax Exemption)Kansas 2025 law creating a 20-year state and local sales tax exemption for qualifying data centers.Download
- Resolution 2026-4 (Moratorium)Harvey County, Kansas resolution imposing a data center development moratorium, January 13, 2026.Download
- SB400 - Requiring data centers to use closed-loop cooling systems to mitigate water consumption.Description comingDownload
- SB526 - Requiring data centers to be located on land that was zoned for industrial or manufacturing uses or was not zoned on July 1, 2025, to qualify for the sales tax exemption for qualified data centers.Description comingDownload
- SB531 - Prohibiting the development or operation of any new large load data center in a county that has had a drought emergency declared for such county pursuant to the Kansas emergency management act within the preceding three years.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- Cloverleaf Infrastructure
- County
- Leavenworth County, KS
- Capacity
- 1,200 MW
- Address
- Tonganoxie, KS
- Stage
- Announced
Size: not on file
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