'This data center belongs downtown': Developer proposes 20-story vertical data center in Kansas City to trade…
- Kansas City developer proposes 20-story data center on only 0.23 acres
- Only two floors of Revitalization Unlimited's 20-story tower would house servers
- The vertical data center would cost $183 million — $1,300 per square foot
Recent research from real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield claims the average data center land transaction covers 224 acres, pushing many projects away from urban centers toward larger sites.
Revitalization Unlimited has a different idea: instead of spreading facilities across larger cities, why not build upward within the city?
The developer has proposed a 20-story facility in central Kansas City that would concentrate computing equipment and supporting infrastructure on approximately 0.23 acres.
Power and cooling take most of the space
The proposed tower would provide 24 MW of IT capacity, but only two of its 20 levels would contain computing equipment; 18 floors accommodate power and cooling.
Approximately 109,000 square feet of the building’s 141,000...
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