Status: Active Development / Site Planning Phase | Location: Astra Enterprise Park, near W. 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue, De Soto, Kansas, USA
Digital Realty's multi-billion-dollar entry into the Kansas City metropolitan area represents a massive paradigm shift for industrial technology deployment in the American Midwest. Situated within the historic 9,000-acre Astra Enterprise Park, the former site of the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant the development spans a combined 1,400 acres split across two major master-planned zones: Astra North and Astra South. The active first development phase, designated as Astra North, encompasses approximately 280 acres of light-industrial zoned land optimized specifically for mega-scale critical compute nodes.
The architectural blueprint outlines a hyper-dense development program consisting of nine specialized data center buildings alongside supporting administrative complexes, culminating in approximately 3 million square feet of mission-critical floor space. Strategically positioned adjacent to the massive 300-acre Panasonic electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant, the Digital Realty campus leverages the region’s extensive utility access, robust skilled workforce, and high-capacity long-haul dark fiber corridors.
Engineered specifically to accommodate next-generation high-density artificial intelligence, deep learning training models, and large-scale enterprise workloads, the site overcomes traditional grid connectivity limitations through an aggressive localized infrastructure rollout. The campus architecture shifts away from traditional commercial designs by housing heavy electrical, power transmission, and mechanical cooling arrays entirely indoors or behind advanced acoustic screening assemblies. This ensures strict compliance with community sound thresholds and zero-glare lighting mandates while scaling to unprecedented operational compute metrics. Upon completion, the campus will provide critical low-latency edge and core multi-cloud node computing, anchoring Kansas City's position as a major cloud routing crossroad in North America.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Project Name | Digital Realty De Soto AI Data Center Campus |
| Location | Astra Enterprise Park, near W. 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue, De Soto, Kansas, USA |
| Status | Active Development / Site Planning Phase |
| Project Type | Greenfield Hyperscale Cloud & Accelerated AI Campus |
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| Header | Details |
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| City Name | Kansas |
| Population | ~197,000 (Kansas City, Kansas) |
| Urban Agglomeration | ~2.2 million (Kansas City Metropolitan Area) |
| Economic Profile | 🔒 Detailed city intelligence available to subscribers |
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