Data centers in Clay County

Google has begun construction on Project Mica, a second Kansas City area data center campus on a 500 acre site at the northeast corner of Interstate 435 and Highway 169 in Clay County, planned for five buildings totaling about 1.56 million square feet and up to 700 megawatts. Google confirmed the project in February 2026 as a follow up to its nearby first campus, Project Shale, in the Hunt Midwest Business Center. The Kansas City area has become one of Google's largest US data center clusters, alongside Meta's operating Northland campus about a mile to the northwest.

Google's first Kansas City area data center campus, internally called Project Shale, sits in the Hunt Midwest Business Center on NE Parvin Road in Clay County, near Worlds of Fun, and is planned across four phases totaling about 1.435 million square feet. The project was expected to generate upwards of 1,000 construction jobs. Google has since begun a second, larger campus nearby, and together the two projects represent a roughly 1 billion dollar investment in the Kansas City area.

An operating Meta data center site in Clay County, MO, mapped in OpenStreetMap and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas. About 616,000 square feet of building is mapped.