Just weeks after De Soto’s incoming 300-acre data center site broke ground, a separate data center developer is looking to build a campus nearly quadruple that size just down the road at Astra Enterprise Park.
This marks the fourth data center proposal to come up since March in western and southern Johnson County. Spring Hill and Gardner received applications earlier this spring, though both were withdrawn, and another application in Edgerton was denied earlier this month.
Following the applications in Gardner and Edgerton, residents pushed for moratoriums, which would’ve temporarily blocked data center applications. Earlier this month, both the Gardner City Council and the Edgerton City Council denied imposing six-month pauses…