Patmos Plans $107M Data Center in Independence as City Weighs Development Moratorium
June 29, 2026
Patmos Plans $107M Data Center in Independence as City Weighs Development Moratorium
Data center and hosting firm Patmos is moving forward with plans to build a new data center in Independence, Missouri, even as local officials consider a temporary halt on such projects following a massive neighboring development by Nebius. The proposed facility underscores a broader surge in data center construction across the Kansas City region, driven by rising demand for cloud and AI infrastructure.
According to reporting from the Kansas City Star, Patmos is under contract to acquire a warehouse at 2500 Little Blue Parkway and convert it into a data center. Monica Brisimitzakis, Patmos’s vice president of strategic growth, disclosed at a company-organized town hall last week that the firm entered negotiations with the property’s owner, Kansas City developer NorthPoint, as early as November 2025. Building permit applications value the construction at approximately $107 million.
This project arrives amid heightened scrutiny of data center development in Independence. NorthPoint previously sold 398 acres in the city to neocloud provider Nebius for a large-scale data center campus, a deal that closed in early December 2025. Nebius broke ground on that project in May 2026, which is expected to require at least 800 megawatts of power. To support the Nebius campus, Independence Power Partners is reopening the Blue Valley Power Plant Site and plans to scale generation capacity to 1.1 gigawatts by December 2029.
In response to the scale of the Nebius development, the city of Independence has been considering a 180-day moratorium on zoning approvals for new data center projects. However, Brisimitzakis confirmed that Patmos’s project is already in process and would not be affected by any potential pause. “Our project is already in process and wouldn’t be affected by any moratorium,” she said during the town hall.
Patmos positions itself as a provider of cloud, high-density compute, software, and data center solutions that are “free from the threat of Big Tech censorship,” marketing its offerings as “uncancellable hosting solutions” that provide “refuge for the digital exile.” The company’s name is derived from the Greek island of Patmos, historically associated with the Christian Book of Revelation. Patmos currently operates four data centers across Kansas City, Missouri; Dallas, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona. Its existing Kansas City site, housed in the former Kansas City Star printing press, already hosts Nebius infrastructure.
The proposed Independence facility highlights the intensifying competition for power and land in data center hotbeds, as municipalities grapple with balancing economic development against infrastructure strain. With Nebius’s massive campus already reshaping the local energy landscape, Patmos’s $107 million project adds another layer to the region’s transformation into a major data center hub.
Source: datacenterdynamics
