Astra data center campus (Digital Realty)
De Soto (Johnson County), Johnson County, Kansas
Approximate area
Someone has proposed it. Nothing has been approved and nothing is being built.
Status inferred from agw source doc (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Proposed (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Digital Realty
- Capacity
- 600 MW
- Location known to
- Approximate area
- County
- Johnson County
- State
- Kansas
- Electric utility
- Not identified
- Grid operator
- SPP
Location and nearby
Astra data center campus (Digital Realty) is on record as proposed in Johnson County, Kansas. A record puts its capacity at 600 MW. 35 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 4 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 2.7 mi away, measured between approximate points.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 6.2 mi Under construction 22.6 mi Permitted 2.7 mi Proposed 3.9 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 2.7 mi approximate
Permitted · Johnson County, KS
- 3.2 mi approximate
Permitted · Johnson County, KS
- 3.9 mi approximate
Beale Project Pilot Data Center
Proposed · Johnson County, KS
- 4.0 mi approximate
Mount Sunflower Properties LLC Data Center
Proposed · Johnson County, KS
- 6.2 mi approximate
Operating · Johnson County, KS
- 6.4 mi approximate
U.S. Bank National Data Process Center
Operating · Johnson County, KS
What is on record
Owner
Likely Digital Realty
A tracker names this operator and cites a source we have not read ourselves, so it is not traced to a record.
What the signal was
-
cited document names the operator
digital-realty
Filed by: Digital Realty
- Capacity
- 600 MW from agw
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- More than one utility serves this county, and no filing we hold names which one
- Also recorded as
- Digital Realty
How the status changed
- Proposed Aug 8, 2026 inferred
AI GridWatch stage/outcome: in review|; source press
About this data
Evidence
Primary record
A government filing, a federal permit, an assessor parcel or the operator’s own page.
Location known to
Approximate area
Approximate. Good enough for a neighbourhood, not for a driveway.
Independent sources
1
cited filing. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
2 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Source cited by AI GridWatch for Astra data center campus (Digital Realty): https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2026/jun/10/a-second-major-data-center-project-has-been-proposed-in-de-soto-n US-KS | Context | url=https://www2.ljworld.com/news/general-news/2026/jun/10/a-second-major-data-center-project-has-been-proposed-in-de-soto-near-panasonic-battery-plant/ | Aug 8, 2026 retrieved by us |
| agw_projects tracker export (AI GridWatch (aigridwatch.com), CC BY 4.0.) US | Context | id=digital-realty-astra-desoto-ks | Aug 8, 2026 last changed on the server |
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