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earthling wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:16 pm Wow, impressive if the case. No incentives for this one or seeking some kind of extension of existing?

So assuming buildings about same size as GPTP, would be near 40% addition to GPTP.

cor88b wrote: ↑Wed Feb 02, 2022 4:07 pm so they are building Golden Plains technology park off 169 and across the highway they are now going to do another?

Rocky Branch Creek is a 360-acre greenfield development just south of Smithville, Missouri and located near Golden Plains Technology Park, another hyperscale data center campus developed by Diode Ventures.

The Rocky Branch Creek development is conveniently located near the Nashua Substation and transmission lines from Evergy. The site has close access to the Kansas City water and sewer systems, too.

The property is currently zoned for mixed use, which includes data center usage, but the Diode team is pursuing new zoning to support the possibility of hyperscale data center development. Diode is also pursuing incentives for future end users.

earthling wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 5:50 am

Rocky Branch Creek is a 360-acre greenfield development just south of Smithville, Missouri and located near Golden Plains Technology Park, another hyperscale data center campus developed by Diode Ventures.

The Rocky Branch Creek development is conveniently located near the Nashua Substation and transmission lines from Evergy. The site has close access to the Kansas City water and sewer systems, too.

The property is currently zoned for mixed use, which includes data center usage, but the Diode team is pursuing new zoning to support the possibility of hyperscale data center development. Diode is also pursuing incentives for future end users.

If each building the size of a Meta DC (600K sqft each), that's potentially over 5M sqft for the Rocky Branch site. likely at least 3M.

KC fortunate to have B&V/Diode kickstarting these DC parks, prepping the infrastructure and pre-arranging incentives to make it easier for any operator to plop in. And perhaps best economic use for all of the excessive KCMO land. Will be able to go from off the radar to a top tier DC market in a fairly short period.

Wonder if this is planned to start prep in parallel to GPTP or after GPTP mostly occupied.

normalthings wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:03 pm Parallel based on the timeline given. Wish they built denser. Any reasons why they don’t?

earthling wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 8:20 am

normalthings wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 3:03 pm Parallel based on the timeline given. Wish they built denser. Any reasons why they don’t?

They're just conceptual renderings from Diode, the tenants could end up doing something different - Facebook layout a bit different than Diode conceptual. And layout will probably depend on number of tenants - many tenants may want more space between buildings, if a single tenant takes it all, might be denser. The capacity is also determined by water/power feeds too so it just depends.

With a 3rd park (Hampton Meadows) potentially coming there would be a lot of power draw. At some point City/Evergy might want to negotiate that larger tenants contribute to N+10% for renewables... that is N=their need and additional 10% for public use and/or potential DC overdraw on power grid, or even 5%. Should alleviate any public concerns for DC power grid impact.

earthling wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 1:36 pm Has Rocky Branch been proposed to the City yet?

dukuboy1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:08 pm Isn't Evergy involved in the proposed giant solar farm by the airport? I assume that would help with renewable energy as that proposed solar farm would be the largest in the US and hold a top status in the world as well.