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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Nebius Group
- Address and locality
- Independence · Jackson County · Missouri
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,200 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 24 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001033
What the source record says
Nebius Group's (Nasdaq: NBIS) first gigawatt-scale US data center project. Located in Eastgate Commerce Center, off Little Blue Parkway and Missouri Highway 78 in eastern Independence. Up to 10 buildings planned. Phase 1 operational target Q2 2027; full campus completion 2028–2029. Projected $30–50M annual tax revenue for Independence. Separate Nebius facility exists at former Kansas City Star printing press building ~20 miles west (not this record). Coordinates approximate for Eastgate Commerce Center in eastern Independence. The $150.6B bond authorization is a Missouri Chapter 100 IDRB structure; bonds are privately issued and owned by Nebius — no city credit exposure.
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
- 2026-03 · reported proposed
Nebius secures tax breaks from Independence city council in March 2026; ~$150.6B in Taxable Industrial Development Revenue Bonds (Missouri Chapter 100 structure, privately issued/owned by Nebius) approved
- 2026-05 · reported under construction
Groundbreaking May 13, 2026; first phase of construction underway; Phase 1 operational target Q2 2027
Sources and attribution
- Nebius breaks ground on gigawatt-scale AI factory in Independence, Missouri · Nebius
- Nebius breaks ground on AI data center in Independence amid community opposition · KSHB
- Nebius breaks ground on 400-acre data center campus in Independence, Missouri · Data Center Dynamics
- Nebius AI Factory | Independence, MO · ARCO
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID nebius-independence-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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