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Kansas City, Missouri, is moving forward with plans to build a potentially $2 billion water treatment plant. It would be the second plant KC Water has in the city limits.

As part of our previous reporting in Data, Dollars and Demand, KSHB 41 News learned that data centers are expected to use millions of gallons of water a day.

Kansas City's existing water treatment plant in Briarcliff has the capacity to pump 240 million gallons of water a day. According to KC Water, the current treatment plant serves the current city's demands well, but its turning 100 years old.

The city is starting the process to add a new treatment facility that would increase overall water capacity for customers, including four massive hyperscale data centers in the Northland.

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