Port KC set to OK $10 billion bonds, tax breaks for Google center in Clay County

A multibillion-dollar data center complex in the Northland is closer to becoming a reality.

The Port Authority of Kansas City’s development committee voted to recommend a plan on Monday to issue up to $10 billion in bonds for a data center under the codename Project Mica — or, reportedly, for Google.

The 500-acre, 1.56 million-square-foot complex will house five “hyperscale” data center buildings, which hold infrastructure to process vast amounts of digital data. The far-north Kansas City site will be off the northeast corner of Interstate 435 and 169 Highway in Clay County.

The full Port KC Board of Commissioners will have to approve the plan. While Port KC issues the bonds, the developer is responsible for paying them back.

The financial package would come with a 75% exemption on real property taxes over 25 years. Even with the tax breaks, the large-scale project would still generate millions of dollars in new revenue for local taxing bodies, according to information presented to the Port KC committee on Monday. Some would be directed toward a new career center in the Northland for high school students and adults.

Construction could begin this year and will be done in phases. The first building will take about 18 months to complete from the time activity begins on the site.

Further details about Project Mica are yet to be announced.

Project Mica isn’t Google’s only data center project in the Kansas City area: The company unveiled plans last year for another sprawling data center campus in the Hunt Midwest Business Center, near Worlds of Fun.

This story was originally published April 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM.