KCK planning commission to consider $12.6B data center near Kansas Speedway
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas City, Kansas, planning commission is expected to discuss a proposed multi-billion-dollar data center near the Kansas Speedway Wednesday evening.
The planning commission has scheduled a special session for 6 p.m. Wednesday inside commission chambers, 701 N. Seventh St. Trafficway, to discuss the plan for a $12.6 billion data center, and it's a possibility that there could be a first vote on it.
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The meeting will include a discussion about rezoning the area. So far, it's not clear who would operate the data center, but the Kansas City Business Journal reported one of the people involved had previous roles at Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.
The project site sits roughly four miles west of the Kansas Speedway and three miles from the American Royal campus and a proposed Mattel amusement park in Bonner Springs.
If approved, the 548-acre project would take around seven years to complete.
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