Digital Realty Astra North Campus (Astra Enterprise Park, De Soto, Kansas)

Name: Digital Realty Astra North Campus (Astra Enterprise Park, De Soto, Kansas)
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United States · 1 project · Last reported 2026-09-22

Summary

The City of De Soto's staff memo for Planning Commission agenda item 7b, meeting date 22 September 2026, presents Digital Realty's phase-one site plan for 'Digital Astra North (Project Jayhawk)' at Astra Enterprise Park, north-east of 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue: one two-storey data center 61.5 ft high with about 225,000 sq ft per level (450,000 sq ft in total), 189 parking spaces, four loading docks, a private electric substation and an Evergy-operated (Polaris) substation, on land already zoned M-1. Staff recommended approval with conditions; the Planning Commission makes the final decision on site plans. This records the project as announced on 22 September 2026. The commission's decision record was not reachable, so no consent, site preparation or construction is asserted. evidence

City of De Soto, Kansas · published 2026-09-22

Location

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Projects (1)

Digital Realty Astra North Phase One (Project Jayhawk) — proposed two-storey 450,000 sq ft data center with private and Evergy substations

Announced last observed as of 2026-09-22 · Project announcement

The city's Agenda Center lists 'Planning Commission Packet for September 22nd, 2026'. Its HTML agenda is headed 'Agenda - 09/22/2026' and points to the meeting-materials folder for the items. evidence

City of De Soto, Kansas · publication date not stated

The folder linked from the 22 September 2026 agenda lists eight files, including 'Item 7b - Consider Site plan for Project Jayhawk - Digital Realty.pdf', 'Item 7c - Consider Digital Realty Conformance Finding.pdf' and 'Item 7c - TIF Project Plan - Digital Realty (De Soto).pdf'. evidence

City of De Soto, Kansas · publication date not stated

The city states that Digital Realty is proposing a multi-phase data center campus at Astra Enterprise Park near W. 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue, progressing through the city's development review process. Phase 1 (Astra North) covers about 280 acres with up to nine data center buildings and about 3 million sq ft; larger later phases could cover about 1,400 acres. The page links the 'Site Plan for Digital Realty North - Agenda Item' under the 22 September 2026 Planning Commission meeting. Its FAQ says Digital Realty leases data center capacity to customers, that tenants have not been identified, that Digital Realty will fund transmission and substation infrastructure with Evergy, and that cooling would rely on outside air for about 85-90% of the year. evidence

City of De Soto, Kansas · publication date not stated

The city's newsletter of 2 October 2026 reports that the City Council, among other actions, scheduled a public hearing on Digital Realty Project Plan 3 for 19 November 2026. evidence

City of De Soto, Kansas · published 2026-10-02

KSHB reports that at its 22 September meeting the De Soto Planning Commission approved Digital Realty's Phase One site plan for Project Jayhawk, a two-storey 450,000 sq ft building, and states without attribution that construction is expected to start officially in 2027 and that site preparations have begun. It quotes a Digital Realty spokesperson thanking the commission for its 'careful review and approval'. evidence

KSHB 41 (Scripps Media) · published 2026-09-29

Companies

Operator: Digital Realty (intended) evidence
Owner: Atlantic Ventures LLC (current) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

City of De Soto, Kansas, Planning Commission agenda item 7b (22 September 2026): Consider Site Plan for Project JayHawk - Digital Realty (staff memo, site plan application and development plan set) evidence row
City of De Soto, Kansas · published 2026-09-22 · Government record

Locator

Campus locator · Compiled location reference · georeferenced_site_plan_property_boundary_centroid evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 35 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 38.94419, -94.98729
Geometry licence: public-record-source-terms
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: georeferenced_site_plan_property_boundary_centroid
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Campus
Method: pdf_vector_property_boundary_from_drainage_study_exhibit_2_5_converted_with_embedded_geopdf_registration_area_centroid
Derivation: georeferenced_source_map
Precision scope: Area centroid of the yellow 'PropertyBoundary' outline on Exhibit 2.5 (Post-Project Land Use Workmap, Project Jayhawk, dated 26 June 2026) in the city's 22 September 2026 site-plan agenda document, read as PDF vector geometry and converted with the exhibit's own embedded GeoPDF corner coordinates (NAD83; affine fit residuals 0.05 m). The outline measures about 253 acres, 1.07 km east-west by 2.28 km north-south. The point marks the Astra North / Project Jayhawk tract east of Lexington Avenue; it is not the building footprint, a surveyed boundary or the extent of works.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The exhibit states no positional accuracy and its outline (about 253 acres) predates the September 2026 boundary survey of the 281.136-acre North Site; the registration is internally exact to about 1 m but the outline's absolute accuracy is unstated, and the point is the centroid of a tract extending about 1.1 km from it.
Geometry evidence: ec8365fa

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

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Evidence for Digital Realty Astra North Campus (Astra Enterprise Park, De Soto, Kansas)
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
City of De Soto Agenda Center: Planning Commission agenda, 22 September 2026 Archived copy	City of De Soto, Kansas Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	City of De Soto, Kansas	`6f881ccfd1f18d868c0b65d32a7a4f1ab788c5afe68277b7aba8f9fec25448db` Retained source material; see source provenance
City of De Soto e-newsletter, 2 October 2026 Archived copy	City of De Soto, Kansas Government record	Site and project identity	2026-10-02	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	City of De Soto, Kansas	`3b4c2ae34d8c0b1759d7bd8093208c697176a62a61171ca38715463df72c5a28` Retained source material; see source provenance
City of De Soto Planning Commission meeting materials folder, 22 September 2026 (public Google Drive folder linked from the agenda) Archived copy	City of De Soto, Kansas Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	City of De Soto, Kansas	`c930df668c07f0e2c147347516d28a5a2ede216d787ec392c07d7f65f27d0c74` Retained source material; see source provenance
City of De Soto, Kansas, Planning Commission agenda item 7b (22 September 2026): Consider Site Plan for Project JayHawk - Digital Realty (staff memo, site plan application and development plan set) Archived copy	City of De Soto, Kansas Government record	Project announcement, Geometry, Owner claim	2026-09-22	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	City of De Soto, Kansas	`29222cc45ab2c2a73e32c030b3047b4265da82027c45d6949357e67f8f0af7bf` Retained source material; see source provenance
City of De Soto: Digital Realty Data Center project page Archived copy	City of De Soto, Kansas Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	public-record-source-terms	City of De Soto, Kansas	`01bebd438967f70ba87c397dbc1f0b17ab4c500ba18ca033cb9b3c4edd35e381` Retained source material; see source provenance
Digital Realty: De Soto data center project page Archived copy	Digital Realty Operator website	Operator claim	not stated	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Digital Realty	`1fa44137a263683b2c4b58038a47d2a932293c7c6c7bcf3ba1dc47eb78b5f99e` Retained source material; see source provenance
KSHB 41: Second hyper-scale data center moves forward in De Soto amid petition efforts to ban development Archived copy	KSHB 41 (Scripps Media) News	Site and project identity	2026-09-29	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	KSHB 41 / Scripps Media, Inc.	`5478511aeed8d57b827ee14879c840b0f3eca384f3ac5b32419cd9d89e1c33a9` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Digital Realty Astra North Campus (Astra Enterprise Park, De Soto, Kansas) [site vcc-site-4f12ca3947a97b49eaf9]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-4f12ca3947a97b49eaf9/

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