Data-center registry · Barber County, Kansas
Data centers in Barber County
2 facilities: 1 operational, 1 planned. Each dot is a public record; its color is what that record says about the facility’s status.
Geolocity data-center registry · snapshot September 18, 2026
Facilities
2
Operational
1
Planned
1
Barber County in context
Natural-hazard risk
Very Low
Risk index score 40.3 of 100 · expected annual loss $14,114,620
Social vulnerability relatively low · community resilience relatively moderate
Rated high: Drought (relatively high)
FEMA National Risk Index · December 2025
Grid carbon intensity
872 lb CO₂ per MWh
Renewables 36.7% of generation (wind 32.5%, solar 0.4%)
eGRID subregion SPSO (SPP South)
EPA eGRID 2023 · eGRID2023 rev2 (June 12, 2025)
Industrial electricity rate
6.17¢ per kWh
Sales-weighted across 3 bundled utilities serving the county, 581,265 MWh of industrial sales
Southern Pioneer Electric Company; CMS Electric Coop Inc; Alfalfa Electric Coop, Inc
EIA-861 2024 · 2024 final
County-level figures from federal datasets, stored as published. They describe the county, not any one parcel.
- Operational · 1A mapped building in OpenStreetMap, a Texas Comptroller program registration, or news reporting the site as running.
- Under construction · 0News reporting construction underway at the site.
- Planned · 1A TCEQ air permit on file with no mapped building yet, or a project announced in the news. Permits come before buildings, so this is the early-warning state.
- Paused · 0News reporting the project on hold.
- Inactive · 0News reporting the facility closed or the project cancelled.
- Registered, status unknown · 0In a state registry under a program that says nothing about construction (no air permit, no mapped building). Unknown is the answer, not a guess.
Every facility in Barber County
In the news in Barber County
August 31, 2026FacilityPlanned
Barber County, Kansas approves its agreement for a Google data center near Sharon
The county commission approved the development agreement for a Google data center near Sharon.
KWCH
How this registry is counted
One row is one campus. OpenStreetMap maps individual buildings, so buildings within 400 meters of each other fold into a single facility; a facility found by two sources within 400 meters of each other is one row that lists both. Coordinates are never altered — a merged row keeps the mapped building’s position.
Status is inferred from what each source states and nothing more: a mapped building or a Texas Comptroller registration means the facility exists; a TCEQ air permit with no building yet means it is permitted, not built; a registry entry under a non-air program says nothing about construction, and the row says so. No source here confirms anything on site.
State and county come from the U.S. Census TIGER/Line county boundaries the facility point falls inside. Every count on this page is computed from the same registry file — nothing is typed in by hand.
Questions
How many data centers are in Barber County, Kansas?
As of the September 18, 2026 registry snapshot, Barber County has 2 facilities: 1 operational, 1 planned. Named facilities include Google data center near Sharon. Only facilities recorded by a public source Geolocity mirrors are counted.
Where do these rows come from?
Buildings tagged as data centers in OpenStreetMap, the Texas Comptroller's data-center program registry, and facilities registered as data centers in TCEQ's Central Registry. Each row links the record it came from. County placement uses U.S. Census TIGER/Line boundaries.
What does a data center near a parcel mean for the land?
Two things a landowner cannot see from the surface: demand for nearby land and competition for local water and power. The Geolocity parcel report shows every facility within 25 miles of a specific address alongside the aquifer beneath it and the county's industrial water use. This page is the public record; it is information, not advice.
Sources and licenses
- OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors. ODbL 1.0 (Open Database License).
- Texas Comptroller data-center program — Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Data Center Program. Public record (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts).
- TCEQ Central Registry — Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Central Registry. Public record (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, via the Texas Open Data Portal).
- U.S. Census TIGER/Line counties — U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Public domain (US federal work, 17 U.S.C. § 105).
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts data-center program registry; Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Central Registry; U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line county boundaries. Registry snapshot September 18, 2026.
Information and research only. Facility rows come from public sources Geolocity mirrors (OpenStreetMap, the Texas Comptroller's data-center program registry, TCEQ's Central Registry) and can lag, double-count a campus, or miss a facility; lifecycle is inferred from what each source states, never confirmed on site. Not legal, real-estate, tax, or investment advice.