The New Geography of Growth

Every era of economic growth organized around a connectivity infrastructure — water, rail, air, compute. The cities at the nodes captured generational value. Data centers are the ports of the AI economy. And in Kansas City, the infrastructure is not arriving — it has already landed ($11B+ announced from Google alone, Meta operating, the KC Star press building becoming a 100MW AI facility). The question is design, not attraction. The smartest regions solve the problems the infrastructure creates — and export the solutions.