This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Patmos Hosting
- Address and locality
- 1601 McGee St · Kansas City · Jackson County · Missouri
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 35 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 24 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001109
What the source record says
~$1B redevelopment of the former Kansas City Star building into a ~35 MW data center, Jackson County. Distinct (downtown KC, Jackson County) from the Lambda/Google/Meta Kansas City sites. Single-tracker source → confidence reported. Coordinates are the Kansas City centroid.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026 · reported under construction
Patmos Hosting redeveloping the former Kansas City Star building into a ~35 MW, ~$1B data center
- 2026-08-24 · reported operational
Local TV coverage from 2026-01-12 reports Patmos 'has customers with equipment online' at the running Kansas City Star building data center, indicating a genuine transition from under_construction to operational even as the broader retrofit continues in phases.
Sources and attribution
- List of upcoming data center projects in Missouri · Blackridge Research
- Patmos Receives $100M C-PACE Loan for Redevelopment of Kansas City Star Building into Data Center · REBusinessOnline
- Former Kansas City Star building houses data company Patmos · KCTV5
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID patmos-kansas-city-mo. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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