Where Is Google Building Its Data Center in Kansas City?

By Joe Nelson, Retired Air Force, Nelson Home Group Team Leader and Mortgage Loan Originator

Google’s confirmed second Kansas City data center campus is at 12701 N Arrowhead Trafficway, at the northeast corner of the I-435 and US-169 interchange in Clay County, and construction is already underway. Google’s first Missouri campus, a separate project reported at $1 billion, has been under construction since 2024. If you have heard about a third, far bigger project north of the airport, that one is a different story entirely, and I will untangle it below.

I walk through both maps in the full video. If your first question is what this does to your utility costs, I answer it in my post on data centers and Kansas City electric bills.

Own a home in the Northland, or thinking about buying one? If you want a straight answer on what the data center boom means for your situation, call me at (816) 680-6624 or email [email protected]. KW KC North Office: (816) 452-4200.

What is at 12701 N Arrowhead Trafficway?

That address is the site of Google’s second Kansas City data center campus, confirmed by the company in February 2026 with construction already underway (KCTV5). Port KC has authorized up to $10 billion in taxable revenue bonds to finance the roughly 500 acre campus (Port KC). That authorization is where the “$10 billion data center” headline comes from, and it is worth being precise about it: $10 billion is a financing ceiling, not a construction budget Google has published. Before February, the project moved through city processes under the code name Project Mica, and the confirmation ended months of guessing about who was behind it.

What will the Google data center campus actually look like?

Five data center buildings totaling 1.56 million square feet, with about 700 megawatts of capacity, per industry reporting on the project (Data Center Dynamics). Picture long, low warehouse-style buildings, rows of them, filled with servers, with electrical substations and cooling infrastructure attached. And expect years of construction, not one season of it: an OSHA partnership agreement for the project says the campus will likely reach six years of construction, with approximately 500 craft workers at the peak phase for each building (OSHA).

How close are homes to the Google data center site?

Close enough that the question matters, and far enough that you should measure instead of guess. The site sits at the northeast corner of I-435 and US-169 in Clay County, in Kansas City’s Northland, with Liberty and Gladstone among the nearer communities. Now the part that actually matters: do not use a city name as a distance estimate. Measure from your parcel to the campus boundary and check what is zoned in between, because that is what the home-value research says drives the outcome. In my workflow, that is a ten-minute records pull. Kansas City’s January 2026 zoning rewrite also added noise limits, setback requirements, and special use permits across most data center categories (KCUR), which gives nearby homeowners more protection than existed a year ago. Clay County’s parcel viewer and Kansas City’s zoning map are both public, and between them you can get a boundary-to-boundary distance plus the zoning of everything in between. If you would rather not do it yourself, send me your address and I will run the measurement and tell you what is zoned between your lot and the campus line.

Is this the same project as the $100 billion data center?

No, and this is the single most common mix-up I hear. The Arrowhead Trafficway campus is confirmed, funded, and under construction. The $100 billion figure belongs to Project Kestrel, a separate project with a far larger financing ceiling, in the works north of KCI. Port KC approved up to $100 billion in bond authority for it in August 2025 (Axios), a Google-affiliated company bought 430 acres for it in March 2026 (Data Center Dynamics), and Google has never publicly confirmed it. One is dirt and cranes. The other has land, financing authority, and no publicly confirmed site work. If Kestrel is the one you are asking about, I go through its approvals, incentives and opposition in detail in what Project Kestrel actually is.

Last verified: August 25, 2026.

Project	Location	Status	Reported scale
Google’s first Missouri campus	Hunt Midwest Business Center, Kansas City Northland	Under construction since 2024	$1 billion (reported)
Google’s second campus (formerly Project Mica)	12701 N Arrowhead Trafficway, northeast corner of I-435 and US-169	Confirmed February 2026, construction underway	Up to $10 billion in bond authority; five buildings, 1.56 million sq ft, about 700 MW
Project Kestrel	North of KCI airport	Land purchased, bonds approved; not confirmed by Google; site work not confirmed by the public record	Up to $100 billion in bond authority

Sources: KCTV5, Data Center Dynamics, Axios.

What should nearby homeowners expect during construction?

Expect years of construction. Google’s first campus has been under construction for two years and counting, and the OSHA agreement for the second campus anticipates a build likely to reach six years. That means sustained construction traffic on the corridor, and it also means sustained paychecks: Meta’s Northland facility drew an average of 1,500 skilled trade workers at its peak, and Google’s Kansas City campus reportedly draws around 1,000 (The Beacon). The project has also come with community money attached, including $1.5 million to the Smithville School District’s workforce development program and $250,000 to the Northland Career Center, per Port KC’s project summary. If you are weighing what all of this does to what your home is worth, I gave my full read on that in this week’s post on what Google’s data center means for Kansas City homeowners.

Frequently Asked Questions

What was Project Mica?

Project Mica was the code name for Google’s second Kansas City data center campus while it moved through early approvals. Google confirmed in February 2026 that it is behind the project, ending the code name era. The site is at 12701 N Arrowhead Trafficway.

How big is the Google data center site in Kansas City?

The Kansas City Star has reported the campus at roughly 500 acres and $10 billion, and industry reporting describes five buildings totaling 1.56 million square feet with about 700 megawatts of capacity. Google confirmed the campus and construction but has not published final figures itself, which is why I attribute those numbers to reporting.

When did construction start on Google’s Kansas City data centers?

Google’s first Missouri campus has been under construction since 2024. The company confirmed in February 2026 that construction was underway on the second campus at Arrowhead Trafficway, and an OSHA partnership agreement describes a build likely to reach six years.

How can I check how far my home is from the Google data center?

Measure from your home parcel to the campus boundary, not to a highway interchange or a city center, then check the zoning and existing uses between the two parcels. County parcel viewers make this a ten-minute exercise, and it is the same map-first workflow I run with Northland buyers.

Which Northland communities are closest to the new Google data center?

The site sits at the northeast corner of the I-435 and US-169 interchange in Clay County. For any specific home, parcel-to-parcel distance and the zoning in between matter far more than the city name on the mailbox, so measure rather than rely on community labels.

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