Google has confirmed it is the customer behind Project Mica, a data center campus already under construction in the Northland district of Kansas City, Missouri, and it will be the first company billed under Evergy's new large load rate. It is the company's second campus in the metro and its second in the state.
The site sits near the northeast corner of the Interstate 435 and U.S. Highway 169 interchange, on roughly 500 acres, according to KSHB 41, which reports the confirmation came from Trystine Payfer, Google's regional head of data center public affairs. KCTV5 gives the address as 12701 N Arrowhead Tfwy. Cranes are up and work is in progress.
No completion date has been given. Payfer declined to provide one, citing labor availability, construction schedules, weather and supply chain timing, and said Google data centers typically run on schedules of 18 to 24 months. Applied to a project already in the ground, that range is the only planning figure a local contractor or grid planner has to work with.
Power is the part of this deal worth reading closely. Payfer says that under an agreement with Evergy, the region's largest electricity provider, Google will cover the full energy costs of powering both of its Kansas City campuses, under what Google calls its Capacity Commitment Framework.
An Evergy spokesperson told KSHB 41 that Google will be the first customer to qualify for a rate the utility established in 2025, the Large Load Power Tariff, which applies to electric customers with monthly peak demand of 75 megawatts or more. The Missouri Public Service Commission approved the rate plan in November 2025, and the Kansas Corporation Commission approved a similar plan.
The terms are not soft. Evergy requires data centers on the tariff to sign long-term contracts carrying significant early cancellation penalties, to pay all direct costs of service to the facility, and to pay a premium rate set above what existing large customers pay, which the utility says covers new generation and transmission so that other customers do not.
For anyone comparing sites, that structure is the real news. A colocation or hyperscale tenant evaluating Evergy territory now faces a published qualification threshold at 75 megawatts, a significant penalty for early cancellation, and direct cost responsibility for interconnection, rather than a negotiated economic development rate that spreads costs across the ratebase.
The public money moved earlier. Port KC authorized up to $10 billion in taxable revenue bonds for the second campus in July 2025, along with a 25-year exemption covering 75 percent of property taxes and full exemptions from local and state sales tax on construction materials and equipment. That bond authorization is a financing ceiling rather than a disclosed capital budget, and Google has not published a spending figure for the site.
In exchange, Google committed $1.5 million to the Smithville School District and $250,000 to the Northland Career Center, both paid upfront rather than over the life of the abatement.
The first Missouri campus, a $1 billion build east of Interstate 435 near Worlds of Fun, broke ground in 2024 and remains under construction. Two active sites in one metro, on one utility, is the condition the new tariff was written for.
For infrastructure buyers, this is a working example of how large load tariffs reprice a data center's electricity before a single rack is installed. The same 75 megawatt threshold, early cancellation penalties and direct cost obligations sit in the tariff that covers any other large load in Evergy's Missouri or Kansas territory.
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