Adds more capacity at former printing press site
US data center and hosting firm Patmos is expanding available capacity at its newest data center in Kansas City, Missouri.
The company this week announced the expansion of its data center in downtown Kansas City, and the immediate availability of 10MW of new colocation space for high-density GPU, HPC, and AI infrastructure.
Patmos took over the lease of the former Kansas City Star printing press last year, with plans to turn it into a data center. European cloud firm Nebius is a customer of the site, leasing around 5MW of capacity – with plans to expand to 40MW.
The Patmos data center now has 35MW of total capacity, offering capacity in 2.5MW increments with densities of 100kW+ per rack. According to the company’s website, another 20MW is due online in 2026.
“The demand for AI infrastructure far outstrips the available supply, and Kansas City - like many major cities in the Midwest - is ideally placed to meet this demand in the US, with the skilled workers, the connectivity, and the appetite from municipal authorities to make it happen,” said Joe Morgan, Patmos’ chief operating officer.
Located in Kansas City at 1601 McGee Street, the 400,000-square-foot (37,160 sqm), five-acre campus is being transformed into a 100MW facility as part of a billion-dollar retrofit project.
The printing site opened in 2006 and was sold to Ambassador Hospitality LLC for $30.1 million in 2019. The newspaper had planned to lease back the building for 15 years, but moved out and took a smaller space near Crown Center in 2022 in the wake of its parent company’s bankruptcy the year before.
Patmos provides cloud, high-density compute, software, and data center solutions, which it claims are “free from the threat of Big Tech censorship.”
The company says it “provides refuge for the digital exile” and offers what it calls “uncancellable hosting solutions.”
Patmos acquired Joe’s Datacenter, a Kansas City data center provider founded in 2008, in early 2023. It operated a 4MW facility at 1325 Tracy Avenue in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Built in 1990, the site was previously occupied by a glass manufacturer until it was taken over and converted to data center use by Joe’s around 2013.
Aside from the former printing press, the company says it has three data centers in operation in Kansas City; Dallas, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona.
Source: DCD
