Beale Infrastructure, the firm that backed out of plans to build a data center in Coweta because of opposition, is busy with construction of a $3 billion project near Kansas City, Kansas.
Beale, a portfolio company of Blue Owl Capital Inc., started construction near De Soto, Kansas and the Panasonic battery plant, the $4 billion project that Oklahoma was once considered as a site but lost in competitive bidding with Kansas.
The De Soto project includes four data center buildings totaling nearly 2.9-million-square feet reported the Kansas City Business Journal. The Journal said work started in April nearly two weeks before the De Soto Planning Commission approved the project’s site plan on April 28. Construction will consist of two phases and the first will be an 863,000-foot data center building on nearly 20 acres. The second phase will be a 300,000-square-foot building. Work on the first phase won’t be finished until late in 2028…