Google has filed final plans for its data center construction plan in Northland, Kansas City, Missouri.

Dubbed the Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, Google first bought almost 500 acres for the development in late 2023, located northeast of Interstate 435 and US Highway 169.

Reported by the Kansas City Business Journal, the new filing is said to be for a "confidential client" but Google was confirmed as the end user in January 2024.

The new plans are for a smaller initial data center building, including a fast build time.

Phase one will feature a 208,000 sq ft (19,325 sqm) data center, along with ancillary offices and an Evergy substation. The construction of phase one is expected to be completed by October 2025, shaving off more than a year of construction time compared to the previous plan.

This is compared to prior plans for a 290,000 sq ft (26,942 sqm) data center by the end of 2026, followed by five other 290,000 sq ft buildings.

In the long term, the site plan still includes six phases of construction with a total of 1.8m sq ft (167,225 sqm) of data center and office space as a possibility, but specific plans for each data center building have not been included.

"While we do not have a confirmed timeline for development for the site, we want to ensure that we have the option to further grow, should our business demand it," a Google spokesperson has said.

The site is the same as was previously earmarked for QTS.

Black & Veatch subsidiary Diode Ventures filed a preliminary plan for the Rocky Branch Creek Technology Park, a data center campus that would occupy 359 undeveloped acres it controls northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri, in 2022.

QTS signed on as a potential customer at the park in 2022, but the contract reportedly expired later that year after stakeholders determined that Evergy Inc. - which is providing the substation for Google's plans - could not supply sufficient power to the property to meet the company's long-term needs.

Google already owns one plot of land in Northland where it is planning a data center campus. October 2023 saw the company file (and later gain permission) to develop up to 1.435 million sq ft (133,316 sqm) of data center floor space on 315 acres in the Hunt Midwest Business Center. This will involve at least $1 billion in investment.

The land, located northeast of Parvin Road and Arlington Avenue, was purchased in two transactions, one in 2019 and another in December 2021.

The Port Authority of Kansas City previously approved tax incentive frameworks that apply to both of Google's Northland data center projects. For the new application, this will see 75 percent and 100 percent abatements of real and person property taxes, as well as a sales tax exemption on construction materials.