Developer Withdraws Plans for 316-acre Data Center in Spring Hill, Kansas

The developer behind a proposed 316-acre data center project in Spring Hill, Kansas, has pulled its application ahead of a planning commission meeting scheduled for March 25.

Data center consultancy Colossus Data Center Advisors had planned to develop a campus at the southeast corner of 191st Street and Renner Road and was preparing to seek rezoning of the site for manufacturing use.

But fierce opposition from local residents and the threat of a potential lawsuit caused the company to withdraw abruptly, according to reporting by local news station KMBC.

Colossus’ PR firm Parris Communications emailed KMBC last Friday, saying that they were “no longer pursuing the opportunity near 191st and Renner.”

This was soon followed up by an official announcement from the City of Spring Hill, who wrote in a March 6 Facebook post that “there [was] no longer a pending zoning request for that property.”

Colossus Data Center Advisors provides consulting services for data center planning and construction, including site selection and owner’s representation.

The firm was founded in March 2024 by Jake Wagner and Dillon Zahler, both of whom have experience in the data center sector. Wagner previously served as a VP focused on data center capital markets at JLL and as a senior vice president at investment firm StratCap, which specializes in data center assets.