Planned

Digital Realty Kansas City Campus (Astra Enterprise Park)

Plans have been filed for Digital Realty Kansas City Campus (Astra Enterprise Park), a data center in De Soto, KS. The project is sized at 600 MW. Digital Realty bought ~1,440 acres at Astra Enterprise Park (former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant) in De Soto, KS for ~$474M in June 2026. Phase 1 is nine buildings (~3M sq ft) on 280 acres at W. 103rd St. and Lexington Ave, with 600MW from Evergy by early 2028 and scalability to 2GW. Separate from Beale Infrastructure's De Soto campus.

600 MWPlanned capacity

https://www.digitalrealty.com/about/projects/de-soto

Project status

Announced Jun 25, 2026
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Guilford County Comissioners to vote on 180-day data center moratorium on Nov. 5

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Nothing written about this data center yet. The latest from Johnson County, KS:

Data center developer offers Kansas town residents $1,000 each for 10 years
cbsnews.comOct 14, 2026

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Records and documentation

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: Digital Realty
County: Johnson County, KS
Capacity: 600 MW
Address: De Soto, KS
Stage: Planned

Size: not on file

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Data center developer offers Kansas town residents $1,000 each for 10 yearsCBS News
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