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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google Project Mica.
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Address and locality
- 12701 N Arrowhead Trafficway · Kansas City · Clay County · Missouri
- Official metro area
- Kansas City, MO-KS
- Source-reported status
- under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 24 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000736
What the source record says
Five hyperscale data center buildings on 493 acres, northeast of I-435 and US-169 in KC Northland (near Smithville, Clay County). Google committed $1.5M to Smithville School District and $250K to Northland Career Center. Coordinates are approximate for the site northeast of the I-435/US-169 interchange.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2024 · source-reported proposed
Google acquires ~493 acres in KC Northland; site originally known as Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park (formerly a QTS/Diode Ventures plan)
- 2025-07 · source-reported permitted
City of Smithville and Port KC approve $10B campus; Google still unconfirmed publicly at this stage
- 2026-02 · source-reported under construction
Google confirms Project Mica; construction already underway; first building expected within 18–24 months
Sources and attribution
- $10B, 500-acre Google campus gets stamp of approval near Smithville · KCTV5
- Google announces construction underway for second data center campus in Kansas City · KSHB
- Google confirms new data center development in Kansas City's Northland · KCTV5
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-project-mica-kc-northland-mo. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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