A little more than a month after rural Johnson County residents celebrated a win with the withdrawal of a massive data center proposal, another one popped up just 5 miles down the road.
San Francisco-based data center developer Beale Infrastructure recently submitted a proposal to Gardner to build a 16-building campus on 300 acres near the northeast corner of 191st Street and South Clare Road. It’s still unclear who would use the center or how much it would cost to build.
If approved, Gardner would be Beale’s fourth campus developed in the U.S., with other billion-dollar data center projects in Tucson, Arizona; Tulsa, Oklahoma, and nearby, in De Soto…