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Compass Shawnee County proposal (SW Topeka)

Compass Datacenters, a private operator, has announced Compass Shawnee County proposal (SW Topeka), a data center project in Topeka, KS. Conditional-use permit filed Jul 2026 for site near SW 77th-85th St and Burlingame Rd (Wakarusa area); county returned application as incomplete Aug 2026; community pushback over transparency. Reported 2026. [Reviewed 2026-10-09: verified] Conditional use permit application CU-26-203 filed July 24, 2026, returned incomplete August 4, resubmitted August 28, currently under county review with moratorium in place through February 17, 2027. Source: https://www.snco.gov/ludev/data_center.php.

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Announced Jul 24, 2026
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Nothing written about this data center yet. The latest from Shawnee County, KS:

Topeka leaders raise concerns on data center proposal at Forbes Field
cjonline.comOct 14, 2026
See details of a proposed data center at Topeka's Forbes Field
cjonline.comOct 12, 2026

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Kansas state legislation

SB553 - Data centers and water use consumption reportingLegislationdatacenterbans.comRequires water use consumption reporting related to data centers.Download
SB 98 (Data Center Sales Tax Exemption)Legislationfas.orgKansas 2025 law creating a 20-year state and local sales tax exemption for qualifying data centers.Download
Resolution 2026-4 (Moratorium)Moratoriumharveycounty.civicweb.netHarvey 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.Legislationlegiscan.comIn committee Jan 28, 2026Description 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.Legislationlegiscan.comIn committee Mar 4, 2026Description 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.Moratoriumlegiscan.comFailed Mar 10, 2026Description comingDownload

Site details

Operator: Compass Datacenters
County: Shawnee County, KS
Address: Topeka, KS
Stage: Announced

Capacity and size: not on file

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City of Topeka halts data center applications for one yearTopeka Capital-Journal
Topeka residents push back on data center proposalsTopeka Capital-Journal
Topeka mayor gives his conditions on possible data center developmentTopeka Capital-Journal
An $8 billion Treasury break helped Meta’s tax rate hit 2%. Senators want data center tax answersFortune
The states with the fewest and most data centers, rankedBusiness Insider
Finns Are Seething After Google Illegally Toppled 250,000 Trees for a Data CenterMother Jones
Google offer to pay others to help data center powerArkansas Online
This bill would make data centers pay their own way for powerSalt Lake City Deseret News