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Independent journalistic investigation · Southern Nodaway County, Missouri
The data center that took shape before the public knew.
White Cloud Acres would pair a 600-megawatt AI campus with its own gas power plant. Public records show that land assembly, government contact and technical work were already moving before most residents heard its name.
Data center 600 MW
Dedicated generation 600 MW gas
Estimated investment $6.3 billion
Land sought ~700 acres
Our position · July 24, 2026
White Cloud Acres should not be built.
The proposal asks Nodaway County to accept a hyperscale AI campus and a major gas-generating facility before the public has final, enforceable answers about the unnamed occupant of the datacenter, water and wastewater, electric-service obligations, emissions, land control, public incentives, emergency planning or decommissioning.
We do not oppose technology merely because it is new. We oppose this project because large, long-lived and potentially irreversible changes are being advanced through incomplete plans and privately negotiated agreements.
Read what Nodaway County citizens demandEssential resources first
Existing communities, farms and public systems come before optional industrial demand.
Creator pays
The project must bear every direct and lifecycle cost it creates—not residents or ratepayers.
Evidence before approval
Independent review and enforceable terms must precede construction, incentives and public commitments.
One integrated project
Computing, generation, water, roads, pipelines and transmission must be evaluated together.
No sacrifice zone
Economic development must not trade away health, land, finances or the community’s future choices.
01 / The short version
The project became public late in its development cycle.
The record indicates that site identification, government contact, land options and infrastructure evaluation were underway months before residents broadly learned of the proposal. Scale Microgrids acquired the already-developing project from ReLoad in early 2026.
That sequence supports questions about transparency and public timing. It does not establish unlawful conduct, concealed ownership or improper financial arrangements.
Reported option
The Drake Option
Joe Drake publicly acknowledged an option involving Drake family land in attributed reporting. County records place the Drakes at the cited project address, but the covered APNs were not disclosed.
View owner profileReported option
The Hatfield Option
Tim Hatfield publicly acknowledged an option involving Hatfield family land near U.S. Highway 71 in attributed reporting. The covered APNs were not disclosed.
View owner profileStrong inference
A geographic inference
Six intervening tracts—including newly mapped Blair and Lager holdings—connect the closest Hatfield parcel to the Section 4 core.
Inspect the likelihood assessmentDocumented
Public records, official minutes, regulatory filings, tax data or attributed public statements directly support the claim.
Strong inference
Geography, ownership or chronology supports an assessment, but the underlying agreement or decision is not public.
Still unknown
The answer requires contracts, communications, financial records or filings that have not entered the reviewed public record.
White Cloud Acres development timeline
Nearby generation announced
Evergy publicly announced plans for the separate 440 MW Mullin Creek natural-gas station in Nodaway County, establishing major planned electric infrastructure in the immediate vicinity.
ReLoad begins assembling the project
Available evidence indicates work on site identification, infrastructure, government coordination, water service and land options.
White Cloud LLC registered
A project entity was established. Later Missouri environmental filings identify a separate White Cloud Generating LLC for the proposed power plant.
Water-district contact
ReLoad contacted Public Water Supply District No. 1 regarding service—the earliest government contact identified in the reviewed material.
County Commission meeting
Dan Scheffler, Zach Siegel and Michael Bendok met with the Nodaway County Commission. Minutes characterize it as an introduction; later reporting says the proposed data center was discussed.
Studies and coordination continue
Economic-impact, water-feasibility, environmental and acoustic work proceeded with economic-development organizations, county officials and consultants.
Scale acquires ReLoad
County minutes later described Scale as acquiring the project, indicating White Cloud Acres existed as a developed opportunity before Scale’s acquisition.
Project first reaches broad public view
Initial reporting described an approximately $4 billion development with multiple million-square-foot buildings.
Full concept presented
Scale presented a 600 MW data center, 600 MW gas-generation facility and $6.3 billion investment while development and road agreements were already being discussed.
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Nearby generation announced
Evergy publicly announced plans for the separate 440 MW Mullin Creek natural-gas station in Nodaway County, establishing major planned electric infrastructure in the immediate vicinity.
03 / Location evidence
The Jet Road–Highway 71 corridor
Address points for the core tax-record group 33-02-04 plot within PLSS Section 4, Township 62 North, Range 35 West. Its boundary comes from the federal PLSS dataset.
Reported option
Nearby / unconfirmed
Primary section
Adjacent context
Inferred parcel likelihood geography, ownership & continuity
High
Moderate-high
Moderate
Possible
What the polygons reveal
Six intervening parcels totaling 288.43 GIS acres form three continuous geographic chains between Hatfield land and the Section 4 core. Five additional context tracts totaling 325.58 GIS acres extend the map north of Nielson and east across the One Hundred and Two River.
Parcel geometry: Regrid public ArcGIS layer. Section geometry: U.S. Bureau of Land Management PLSS. Research use; not a legal survey.Interactive parcel analysisLoading parcel research…
Map accuracy
Parcels: source GIS polygons
Colors: evidence / inference status
04 / Project anatomy
A data campus built around dedicated power.
The proposal combines hyperscale computing, on-site generation, utility interconnection and new water infrastructure into a “powered land” package intended to move faster than conventional utility expansion.
ReLoad
Site assembly, permitting, infrastructure planning and early government coordination.
Scale Microgrids
Acquired ReLoad in early 2026 and is presenting, financing and developing White Cloud Acres.
EQT Transition Infrastructure
Supports Scale’s expansion into large-scale energy infrastructure for hyperscale data centers.
Project entityWhite Cloud LLC
Generating entityWhite Cloud Generating LLC
Eventual AI customerNot publicly identified
Electricity
600 MW of dedicated gas generation
Public statements describe on-site generation as primary power, with Evergy providing interconnection, transmission and backup service.
- Electric-service agreement unavailable
- Standby terms and minimum billing unknown
- Infrastructure and collateral allocation unknown
Water
Cooling concept still being evaluated
Later presentations describe closed-loop cooling. Options under study include reclaimed wastewater, Maryville treatment-plant water, an Evergy line or river withdrawal.
- Scale is funding the feasibility study
- Final source and infrastructure are pending
- Initial domestic estimates do not answer industrial needs
Land
Control appears to rely on private options
No reviewed assessor record lists Scale, White Cloud LLC or White Cloud Generating LLC as titled owner. That is consistent with an option-stage assembly.
- Exact option parcels remain undisclosed
- Purchase prices and payments remain private
- No reviewed deed shows transfer to the developer
05 / Transparency review
There is a documented basis for scrutiny.
Evidence boundary
Early planning, limited initial descriptions and unavailable agreements justify continued public-record work. They do not, by themselves, prove illegality, hidden ownership or improper subsidies.
Early meetings
Government and infrastructure discussions occurred before the proposal’s broad public disclosure.
Advanced studies
Economic, water, environmental and acoustic work was substantially underway before the public rollout.
Minutes and notice
Meeting descriptions and later revisions have prompted questions about whether the early public record adequately conveyed the project’s scope.
Sunshine concerns
Press advocates have raised open-government concerns, increasing the importance of preserving and producing early communications.
Highest-value missing record set
August 2025–January 2026 communications
Emails, texts, presentations, calendars and meeting notes from this period could show what officials knew, when they knew it and how the project was characterized before public disclosure.
Who is involved—and how
Role identification is not an allegation of misconduct. It clarifies who may hold responsive records or negotiate project terms.
Dan Scheffler
Primary public project representative.
Josh McKim
Arranged early meetings and participated in infrastructure discussions.
Bill Walker · Scott Walk · Chris Burns
Commissioners involved with development, road and legal-review discussions.
Evergy
Says large customers should pay their own costs under its large-load tariff; actual project contracts are not public.
Nodaway Says No
Raises water, taxation, electric-cost, health, zoning, environmental and transparency concerns.
Richard & Mary Sue Strauch
Nearby landowners who publicly oppose the project and report options extending toward the 102 River.
Potential financial beneficiaries
These are ordinary project incentives identified from the proposed structure—not evidence of improper payments.
Scale Microgrids
Potential development fees, energy sales, infrastructure ownership and long-term operating revenue.
Unidentified AI tenant
Potentially faster deployment, earlier GPU utilization and dedicated power capacity.
Participating owners
Option payments and eventual sale proceeds. The specific participating APNs and payment terms remain private.
06 / Evidence ledger
What the record supports
Use the filters to separate public acknowledgments and tax-record facts from location-based assessment.
Confirmed
The Drake family owns the parcel at the cited project address, and Sheridan Express attributed to Joe Drake a direct acknowledgment that he sold an option for the project. The covered APNs were not disclosed.
Confirmed
Tim Hatfield publicly acknowledged an option involving some Hatfield family land.
Confirmed
Drake, Albright and Burson properties appear in the same primary project section.
Confirmed
Scale Microgrids and related project entities are not recorded as owners in the reviewed tax data.
Confirmed
The Albright family holds multiple parcels across sections 33-02-04 and 33-02-09.
Confirmed
The existing White Cloud Wind Project is separate from the proposed datacenter.
Confirmed
Six GIS parcel polygons totaling 288.43 acres occupy the direct gap between the closest Hatfield tract and Section 4.
Probable
The core acquisition area includes land near 35045 Jet Road.
Probable
Jet Road, U.S. Highway 71 and the 102 River form the likely acquisition corridor.
Probable
Multiple adjoining parcels would likely be needed to assemble roughly 700 acres.
Probable
The intervening Drake parcel has high geographic likelihood because it shares ownership and a boundary with the Drake core parcel tied to the reported option.
Unconfirmed
No reviewed source establishes that neighboring Albright, Burson, Nielson or other families agreed to sell.
Unconfirmed
No reviewed source confirms an option on the specific Hynes, Bluestem, Nielson, northern Blair, northern Lager or intervening Drake APNs.
Unconfirmed
A source-protected account describes Voltus outreach to at least one local manufacturer. No reviewed document confirms the outreach terms or connects it to White Cloud Acres.
07 / Owners & parcels
Closest to the reported site
01
Reported option
Joseph B. & Barbara A. Drake
35045 Jet Road, Barnard
- Account
- 330204000003000
- Parcel
- 33-02-04-00-00-03000
- Record year
- 2025
02
Reported option
Timothy J. Hatfield Trust
33486 U.S. Highway 71, Maryville
- Holdings
- At least 5 parcels
- Sections
- 27-08-28, 27-08-33, 27-09-29
- Related
- Hatfield Signature Beef LLC
New parcel-chain assessment
Who controls the 288.43-acre gap?
Three continuous routes connect the highest-likelihood Hatfield tract to the Section 4 core. Rankings combine adjacency, common ownership and corridor continuity; they do not confirm an option.
Western routeHatfield → Hynes → Bluestem → Section 4
Central routeHatfield → Nielson → Drake → Section 4
Eastern routeHatfield → Nielson → Blair / Lager → Section 4
| Owner | Parcel / GIS acres | Why it matters | Likelihood |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph B. & Barbara A. Drake | 27-08-33-00-00-07000 · 39.51 ac | Same owners as, and directly abuts, the Drake core parcel tied to the reported option | High |
| Christoper K. Nielson | 27-08-33-00-00-11000 · 94.35 ac | Largest bridge tract; directly links Hatfield to the intervening Drake parcel | Moderate-high |
| Saconna Blair | 27-08-33-00-00-08000 · 52.94 ac | East of Drake and south of Nielson; same owner as the adjoining Blair core parcel | Moderate-high |
| Edward H. & Jody M. Lager Trust | 27-08-33-00-00-09000 · 21.68 ac | Eastern edge of the gap; same trust as the adjoining Lager core parcel | Moderate-high |
| Dennis Hynes | 27-08-33-00-00-05000 · 39.83 ac | Abuts Hatfield; same owner also holds a core Section 4 parcel | Moderate-high |
| Bluestem Prairie Farms, Inc. | 27-08-33-00-00-06000 · 40.12 ac | Completes the western chain between the two Hynes holdings | Moderate |
Name check: County and GIS records spell the northern owner “Christoper K. Nielson”; this appears to be the “Nelson” tract in the location description. Inference boundary: Sheridan Express reports Drake’s acknowledgment of an option, but the exact covered APNs remain undisclosed. The Blair and Lager ratings reflect adjacency and common ownership with their respective core parcels; no reviewed source confirms that any of these newly mapped APNs is under option.
| Owner | Address / holding | Research relevance | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Craig A. & Collett S. Albright Revocable Trust | 35735 Jet Road + additional parcels | Immediate neighbor; major multi-parcel owner | Nearby |
| Bernice L. & Brian C. Burson | 35814 Jet Road + U.S. Hwy 71 holding | Immediate neighbor; related business property | Nearby |
| Dennis Hynes | 28099 352nd Street / 34702 U.S. Hwy 71 | Parcel in primary section; two holdings | Context |
| Christoper K. Nielson | 34543 Jet Road | 94.35-acre bridge parcel; county spelling shown | Context |
| Danny D. & Tonya L. Willson Trust | 27-08-33-00-00-01000 / 27-08-33-00-00-02000 · 36.97 GIS acres | Two mapped tracts east of Hatfield and north of Nielson | Context |
| Harold & Bonnie Collins Trust | 27-08-34-00-00-04000 · 62.24 GIS acres | Mapped east-bank tract directly east of Nielson | Context |
| Parr Family Trust | 27-08-34-00-00-08000 · 117.49 GIS acres | Mapped east-bank tract directly east of Nielson | Context |
| Saconna Blair | Two mapped holdings · 164.70 GIS acres | 52.94-acre northern infill tract plus 111.76-acre Section 4 parcel | Context |
| Edward H. & Jody M. Lager Trust | Two mapped holdings · 51.14 GIS acres | 21.68-acre northern infill tract plus 29.46-acre Section 4 parcel | Context |
| Richard L. & Mary Sue Strauch | 27-08-33-00-00-03000 · 108.88 GIS acres; 33421 and 33627 Jet Road | Mapped tract east of Hatfield and north of Nielson; public project opposition | Public record |
| James F. & Janis R. Moutrey Revocable Living Trust | 35197 U.S. Highway 71 | Highway corridor holding | Context |
| Norman L. & Kay Wilson Revocable Living Trust | 35404 and 35668 U.S. Highway 71 | Two highway corridor parcels | Context |
| Brandon D. & Brandy N. Wolf | 36383 U.S. Highway 71 | Two parcels; associated with Wolf Farms | Context |
| Cassandra Bennett & Stanley C. Gray | 36003 Jet Road | Adjacent section 33-02-09 | Context |
| Peter L. Kemper | 36769 Jet Road | Adjacent section 33-02-09 | Context |
No matching owner or address found.
Proximity does not imply participation. “Nearby” and “context” identify geography only, not a sale or option agreement.
08 / Understanding the records
An option is not a sale.
This distinction explains why the project can be assembling land while the developer’s name is absent from property records.
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Option signed
The developer gains a contractual right to buy under specified conditions. Details may remain private.
- 02
Landowner remains on record
Legal title and the county tax record generally stay unchanged while the option is pending.
- 03
Option exercised
If project conditions are met, the parties may close the purchase.
- 04
Deed recorded
Only then would a developer-controlled entity normally appear in public ownership records.
09 / Unanswered questions
The contracts are now the central unknown.
The investigation establishes the project’s existence, development history and likely land corridor. The decisive commercial terms remain outside the reviewed public record.
1
Who is the eventual hyperscale AI customer?
2
Which exact parcels are under option, at what prices and through which entities?
3
What obligations appear in the draft development and road agreements?
4
What do the electric-service, standby, minimum-billing and collateral terms require?
5
Which infrastructure costs are private, directly assigned or potentially recovered through regulated rates?
6
What do the missing August 2025–January 2026 communications show?
7
Where are the binding decommissioning, restoration and long-term financial-assurance plans?
8
Who will control a complete cumulative review of water, air, health, noise, light, traffic and emergency impacts?
10 / The 10,000-foot view
The big picture behind the buildout
White Cloud Acres is one proposed endpoint of a much larger capital race. Technology companies are converting forecasts about future AI use into chips, data centers and power infrastructure now—before anyone can know whether long-term revenue will justify the full scale of the buildout.
What is established—and what remains a thesis
Company disclosures establish extraordinary spending, interlocking commercial commitments and constrained component supply. They do not establish illegal collusion, nor do they prove that an industry-wide crash is inevitable. The public-interest question is whether communities are protected if demand, financing or technology changes faster than the physical infrastructure.
The infrastructure ouroboros
Each commitment becomes evidence for the next.
The Bank for International Settlements describes a “complex web” in which hyperscalers and chipmakers invest in AI labs or infrastructure providers that, in turn, commit to buying chips or compute. This can create real contracts and real revenue while leaving the system dependent on continued expansion.
- 01Investors & private creditFinance firms competing to secure future AI capacity.
- 02Clouds & model companiesReserve compute and announce multiyear demand.
- 03Chips, foundries & memoryTreat reservations and orders as capacity signals.
- 04Data-center & power developersTurn forecasts into land, buildings and generation.
- 05Host communitiesReceive the permanent footprint and local obligations.
The unresolved distinction: demand for infrastructure from companies building AI is not identical to profitable, durable demand from outside customers using AI. One can lead to the other; the buildout assumes it will do so at extraordinary scale.
Spending is outrunning historical benchmarks.
The BIS says the five largest hyperscalers are set to spend more than $1 trillion on AI-related capital expenditures across 2025 and 2026. The IEA says large technology-company capital spending exceeded $400 billion in 2025 and was expected to rise another 75% in 2026.
Read the BIS assessmentThe relationships are reciprocal, not secret.
NVIDIA’s IREN partnership contemplates up to five gigawatts of AI infrastructure and gives NVIDIA a conditional right to invest up to $2.1 billion. Its Meta partnership supports deployment of millions of NVIDIA GPUs. These disclosed arrangements align finance, equipment adoption and capacity expansion.
Examine the IREN agreementMore risk is moving outside balance sheets.
The BIS reports growing use of special-purpose vehicles, long-term leases and capacity-offtake agreements financed by private credit. These structures can transfer construction and financing exposure away from the best-capitalized technology companies without making the underlying demand risk disappear.
Follow the financing structureDo not erase the counterevidence
There is real demand. The open question is whether it is enough.
Microsoft reported that its AI business passed a $37 billion annual revenue run rate in fiscal 2026’s third quarter. Alphabet reported accelerating cloud growth, a large backlog and millions of paid Gemini Enterprise seats. Those figures rebut the simplistic claim that AI has no customers.
They do not settle whether revenue, margins and utilization will grow quickly enough to support every GPU order, lease, power plant and hyperscale campus now being financed. The BIS warns that competitive pressure can cause firms to over-commit even when the technology itself is valuable.
- What orders prove
- Companies are paying to reserve and deploy AI capacity.
- What orders do not prove
- Every announced facility will achieve durable utilization and margins.
- The public decision
- Who bears the downside if forecasts, tenants or financing change?
Memory scarcity / a necessary distinction
A real bottleneck can also preserve pricing power.
High-bandwidth memory is physically harder to produce and consumes more fabrication capacity than conventional DRAM. Calling the shortage “fake” would outrun the record. The stronger inquiry is how concentrated suppliers allocate scarce capacity, structure long-term contracts and decide how quickly to expand.
Micron reported price-and-volume agreements covering its entire 2026 HBM supply. New fabrication and packaging capacity has long construction and qualification timelines.
Capacity shifted toward high-margin HBM is capacity unavailable for conventional DRAM, while restrained additions reduce the risk of another memory glut.
Micron’s 2026 filing describes multiyear strategic customer agreements as take-or-pay contracts with binding volumes; prepared remarks put related remaining performance obligations near $100 billion.
The defensible phrase is strategically maintained scarcity: scarcity can be genuine while contracts, product mix and disciplined expansion amplify its duration and value.
Nodaway County / the physical endpoint
Private forecasts become public exposure.
The developer and eventual tenant can restructure, sell, renegotiate or leave. The county cannot relocate the roads, utility works, generating plant or land-use conflicts. That asymmetry is why enforceable contingencies matter before construction.
Private actors retain
- Control over customer and financing information
- Ability to phase, transfer or abandon the project
- Upside from land, energy, compute and development fees
- Contractual options unavailable to the general public
The host community may retain
- Road, fire-response and emergency-planning burdens
- Noise, emissions, water and transmission conflicts
- Opportunity costs for land and utility capacity
- An underused industrial site if demand disappoints
The hyperscale tenant can renegotiate or relocate. Nodaway County cannot relocate the power plant.
What we demand now
Pause is not resolution.
The county’s moratorium creates time to act. It should not be lifted merely because the developer supplies more documents. Public review, integrated rules and meaningful consent must come first.
- 01
Stop White Cloud Acres
Scale and its related entities should withdraw the project. County and municipal bodies should reject agreements or incentives that enable it.
- 02
Keep and extend the moratorium
Maintain the pause until durable public rules, independent review and a genuine public process are complete.
- 03
Cover the whole project
Apply the pause and cumulative review to the data center, generating facilities, water and wastewater works, roads, transmission, pipelines and dependent infrastructure.
- 04
No tax abatement or subsidy
Reject Chapter 100 financing, discounted services, public guarantees and uncompensated infrastructure or administrative costs.
- 05
Publish the record
Release proposed development, road, water, sewer, electric, incentive and performance agreements, underlying studies and communications, with only lawful narrow redactions.
- 06
Require a genuine public process
Hold accessible joint hearings with affected governments, utilities, health and emergency officials, landowners and residents before any project-related commitment.
Peaceful public participation
Make the opposition visible—and specific.
Read the record. Ask officials for answers in public. Attend meetings. Comment on permits, zoning, incentives and agreements. Participate lawfully, accurately and without personal harassment.
Read and sign the petition
Nodaway Says No action hub
Visit Nodaway Says No
The petition displayed 7,147 verified signatures when checked July 24, 2026. It is not a scientific poll or binding referendum.
11 / Reporting & attribution
Trace each claim to its source.
Source type matters. Developer pages establish what the project says; government records establish filings and official actions; attributed reporting documents public statements; parcel conclusions combine county records with GIS geometry. Advocacy and social-video entries show what a creator published, but do not independently verify the claims made.
Project developer or company statement
Official government record or dataset
Reporting attributed journalism
Synthesis analysis of public records
Publication inventory / updated July 24, 2026
Local reporting library
0 located items. Each entry retains its original URL and offers an Archive.ph lookup or save request. Syndicated duplicates are labeled rather than silently counted as independent reporting.
AI investment & supply-chain context
Analysis Bank for International Settlements — Progress and peril Hyperscaler capital spending, circular financing, uncertain returns and potential investment-bust transmission. Research BIS — The AI investment race Contest-model analysis of over-investment, debt, circular stakes and specialized-asset fire-sale risk. Analysis BIS — Financing the AI infrastructure boom Special-purpose vehicles, private credit, long-term leases, capacity offtake and off-balance-sheet exposure. Analysis International Energy Agency — Energy and AI Technology-company capital expenditure and the scale and pace of data-center electricity growth. Company Microsoft FY2026 Q3 earnings call AI revenue run rate, capital expenditure, long-lived data-center assets and demand claims. Company Alphabet 2025 Q4 earnings call Cloud backlog, enterprise AI adoption, technical-infrastructure spending and rising depreciation. Company NVIDIA–IREN strategic partnership Five-gigawatt infrastructure plan and NVIDIA’s conditional right to invest up to $2.1 billion. Company NVIDIA–Meta infrastructure partnership Multiyear deployment plan spanning CPUs, networking and millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs. Company Micron fiscal 2026 Q3 results HBM deployment, multiyear strategic customer agreements and record memory-market financial results. Filing Micron fiscal 2026 Q3 Form 10-Q Take-or-pay structure and binding volume commitments for strategic customer agreements.Project & company statements
Project White Cloud Acres Information Center Project scope, investment, cooling, water and developer representations. Project White Cloud Acres project documents Developer-posted presentations, studies and supporting material. Company Scale Microgrids — Data Centers Scale’s on-site energy and “speed-to-power” business model. Company Scale Microgrids — Tim Hade biography Scale identifies Hade as co-founder and chief development officer and describes his distributed-energy role. Release Scale acquires ReLoad Company announcement dated February 23, 2026. Company Voltus (Tim Hade) Google Bring Your Own Capacity agreement Three-year agreement for up to 100 MW of Google-funded distributed capacity in PJM. Company Voltus (Tim Hade) acquires Brightfield AI Battery-deployment acquisition and Tim Hade’s move to lead Voltus’s battery division. Company Voltus (Tim Hade) Southwest Power Pool demand response Voltus’s commercial description of SPP programs offered to participating businesses.Government & regulatory records
Official Nodaway County Commission minutes Meeting chronology, participants and official descriptions. Official Nodaway County assessor / tax records Owner names, parcel identifiers, addresses and recorded tax ownership. Official Missouri DNR — White Cloud Generating LLC Construction-permit application record for the proposed generation facility. Official Missouri PSC — Large-load tariffs State summary of minimum terms, collateral, exit fees, minimum bills and cost-recovery protections. Utility Evergy — Mullin Creek announcement March 2025 announcement of a separate 440 MW Nodaway County plant. Official Missouri PSC Utility Locator Utility-service-area reference. Tariff Evergy Missouri West — Business Demand Response Peak-period curtailment rules and the market-based demand-response option for qualified SPP participation. Docket Missouri PSC — Distributed-resource aggregation Working docket addressing third-party aggregators and participation in organized wholesale markets.Local and industry reporting
Reporting Drake option acknowledgment Sheridan Express reports that Joe Drake said he sold an option; exact APNs are not stated. A researcher-supplied archived copy is preserved separately below. Reporting Hatfield option acknowledgment Sheridan Express reports Tim Hatfield’s statement that his family took an option involving some land. Reporting KXCV/KRNW — With little public notice Early public account of ReLoad’s contacts, proposed scale and limited notice. Reporting KQ2 — June 3 public presentation Reported $6.3 billion investment, 600 MW scope and project presentation. Reporting KQ2 — Water concerns Resident questions and official responses concerning water demand. Reporting Maryville Forum — County adopts moratorium July 21 report on the six-month pause, official concerns and the still-unidentified datacenter occupant. Reporting Maryville Forum — Draft water study June 25 report on estimated demand, wastewater, pretreatment and unresolved funding. Reporting Sheridan Express — Generating permit and moratorium gap July 23 report on concern that the associated generating facility could advance separately. Reporting Latitude Media — Scale buys ReLoad Industry context for the acquisition and powered-land strategy. Reporting Latitude Media — Inside the first “bring your own” VPP program How hyperscaler financing, resource aggregation and utility capacity accounting fit together. Reporting Latitude Media — Google is Voltus’s first BYOC customer The first named customer and the program’s up-to-100-MW PJM scope. Reporting Latitude Media — Voltus acquires Brightfield AI Brightfield’s battery-development software, its BYOC role and Tim Hade’s Scale connection. Social Andy J / AJWM — Shadows over Nodaway County July 18 commentary on Maryville transparency, the Sunshine Law and data-center impacts. Cataloged as advocacy/commentary, not independent confirmation. Social Andy J public reporting archive Maryville-based public page and reel archive. The library separately catalogs the supplied transparency video and dated 102 River field footage. Reporting Nodaway.org — Initial proposal report Early reporting on the proposed Barnard-area project. Archive Sheridan Express data-center coverage Timeline, county meetings, agreements, water study and land discussions.Land, GIS & environmental context
Synthesis
County-record parcel research
Original cross-check of assessor ownership, trust names, addresses and project-entity absence from reviewed tax records.
GIS
Regrid nationwide parcel boundaries
Parcel geometry used to derive the displayed boundaries; not a legal survey.
GIS
BLM Public Land Survey System
Section geometry used for the broader PLSS context.
Official
USGS — White Cloud Creek
Federal monitoring-location data.
Official
Water Quality Portal — White Cloud Creek
State monitoring records distributed through the national portal.
Official
U.S. Army Corps jurisdictional determinations
Wetland and waters jurisdiction reference.
Official
Nodaway Valley Conservation Area
Missouri Department of Conservation site context.
Attribution rule: A reported acknowledgment is evidence that the statement was made; it is not a substitute for the private option agreement. Parcel boundaries are approximate GIS representations and should not be treated as surveyed title boundaries.
Bottom line
White Cloud Acres asks for an extraordinary commitment before supplying ordinary public certainty.