Project Yardbird (PowerTransitions) — Quindaro Power Station conversion
Kansas City, Wyandotte County, KS
PowerTransitions has announced Project Yardbird (PowerTransitions) — Quindaro Power Station conversion, a data center project in Kansas City, KS. Reported capacity is 200 MW. Houston-based PowerTransitions signed a $13.6M option (May 2025) to buy BPU's decommissioned Quindaro coal plant in the Quindaro neighborhood of KCK and redevelop it as a ~200 MW (192 MW per dcmap) data center, handling environmental cleanup. In due diligence/environmental assessment as of Jan 2026. (Source dated 2026-01-29.).
- 200 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
- OperationalNot yet
Recorded changes
Nothing recorded yet. Follow this project to hear when something changes.
Community sentiment
Should this project be built?
What’s next
Election Day is in 10 days.
Latest news
Nothing written about this data center yet.
Stories about it, and about Wyandotte County, KS, land here.
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
- PowerTransitions
- County
- Wyandotte County, KS
- Capacity
- 200 MW
- Address
- Kansas City, KS
- Stage
- Announced
Size: not on file
Map
Photos
RenderingPhoto: PowerTransitions
Google Street View
Google Street View
Google Street View
Google Street View
Google Street View
Google Street View
RenderingPhoto: The Beacon
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
Other data centers near Kansas City
- Project Linda (Wyandotte County, undisclosed developer)
- 10th & Central Data Center Tower (CD-CPC-2026-00074)
- Revitalization Unlimited 934 Central St data center tower (Western Newspaper Union building)
- Bryant Building
- Cielo Digital Infrastructure Kansas City Data Center
- Patmos Kansas City (KC Star building)
For data center developers
