NextEra Garden Plain data center land options (21st St. N)
Garden Plain, Sedgwick County, KS
NextEra Energy has announced NextEra Garden Plain data center land options (21st St. N), a data center project in Garden Plain, KS. Rumored (land deal). NextEra Energy signed option agreements, under seller NDAs, with more than 10 landowners for about 800 acres between 311th and 279th Streets West off 21st Street North near Garden Plain for a possible data center; Garden Plain sent a letter opposing data centers and Sedgwick County has kept a moratorium on data center applications in place through 2026. About 800 acres. Not confirmed by the developer or local officials; location approximate. Sources: https://www.kmuw.org/local-news/2026-03-16/two-data-center-companies-are-trying-to-buy-more-than-1-000-acres-of-sedgwick-county-land https://gardenplain.com/__static/jdj5jdewjgi2n3prbxrxy0ftswfevgvp/04-01-26-City-of-GP-Letter-of-Opposition-to-Data-Centers.pdf https://www.kwch.com/2026/05/06/happening-today-sedgwick-county-commission-considers-extending-moratorium-data-centers/.
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- Permitting
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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
- NextEra Energy
- County
- Sedgwick County, KS
- Address
- Garden Plain, KS
- Stage
- Announced
Capacity and size: not on file
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