Company behind second Independence data center isn’t new to KC. What is Patmos?
While Independence residents come to terms with the planned arrival of a second data center in the city, the company behind the proposed site has already made inroads in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Patmos, a technology solutions company, is under contract to buy an empty warehouse building at 2500 Little Blue Parkway in Independence from Kansas City developer NorthPoint and turn it into a data center with a capacity of 17.5 to 70 megawatts.
Patmos was founded in 2022 and is based in Kansas City, with campuses in Dallas; Phoenix; San Jose, California; Newark, New Jersey; and Frankfurt, Germany. The company bought the former glass Kansas City Star building on McGee Street in 2024 as part of a $1 billion project and is now headquartered there.
Patmos offers services for web hosting, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other data infrastructure functions. It is marketed as “the alternative to Big Tech,” offering data hosting and cloud infrastructure solutions.
The company is not publicly traded. In 2024, it published a “Hosting Bill of Rights” pledging, among other things, to “never be institutionalized or owned in any part by any publicly traded company or any company owned substantially by a publicly traded company.”
However, Patmos rents some of the server space in its data centers to other AI companies, a method known as ‘co-location.’ The downtown Kansas City data center is patrolled by a security robot named ‘Lance’ and includes server space rented to Nebius, the Dutch AI services company behind a $150 billion, 400-acre data center now under construction in Independence.
Co-location is also underway at Patmos data centers in Dallas and Phoenix and will likely take place at the Independence site, Monica Brisimitzakis, Vice President of Strategic Growth at Patmos, said last week.
Patmos purchased the intended future data center site from NorthPoint, the same Kansas City developer which sold the hyperscale data center site on Bly Road to Nebius. The data center is expected to cost about $107 million to build and will be hosted within an existing building, which will be renovated on the inside but left relatively intact on the outside.
Patmos entered into sales talks with Northpoint in November 2025 and went into contract to purchase the site in March 2026. The company applied for a commercial permit at the site with the City of Independence on June 2, according to city documents. Brisimitzakis said it would not be subject to a proposed moratorium on data center zoning that is currently before the Independence City Council.
Representatives from Patmos met last week with a group of residents who live near the intended data center site, with additional public meetings expected to follow.
The company is hoping to break ground on the site by November 15 if it purchases energy from Independence’s municipal utility, which would require infrastructure upgrades on a city level, or on April 1, 2027 if it generates its own power on site.
