Town hall set to address proposed Amazon data center in Montgomery County

MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. (KMIZ)

A town hall is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at Montgomery City Elementary School to discuss a proposed Amazon data center campus north of Interstate 70 in Montgomery County.

The meeting follows a contentious County Commission session last Thursday, during which dozens of residents packed the commission room to protest the project, known as Project Green.

Residents raised concerns about environmental impacts, noise, water usage, land values and potential effects on farmland.

The Montgomery County Commission has received an administrative review confirming land approval for the proposed data centers near the I-70 and Highway 19 interchange.

Project Green is being led by NorthPoint Development LLC, a Kansas City real estate company. Steve Etcher with the Greater Montgomery County Economic Development Council said Amazon plans to build a data center just north of I-70 between New Florence and High Hill.

The project would cover about 1,000 acres and include four initial buildings, with 13 more planned in a second phase. Power would come from Ameren under its new “large load tariff” model, and water service would come from the Montgomery County Public Water District.

While the Amazon project has received the bulk of the attention, a separate proposal, Project Spade, comes from a New York–based company, Spade Property Owner LLC. That data center campus would cover about 780 acres and include three primary buildings, each exceeding 1 million square feet. Plans also call for a security station, a visitor center with parking, a pump house and a water-filtration building.

Building permits have not yet been secured, according to the County Commission. The next step in the process is the purchase of the land.

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