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Area Development - Site Selection, Facility Planning and Workforce Development

Lambda Plans Kansas City Missouri, AI Operations

11/11/2025
AI infrastructure company Lambda plans to establish operations in Kansas City, Missouri.

The approximately $500 million project will include the transformation of an unoccupied facility into a data center campus with 24MW of capacity, and the potential to scale up to more than 100MW. Operations are scheduled to begin in early 2026.

“Our Kansas City development perfectly embodies Lambda’s strategy: a prime location for our customers, an accelerated deployment timeline, and an unwavering commitment to on-time delivery,” said Ken Patchett, VP of Datacenter Infrastructure at Lambda. “We believe this success stems from completely rethinking how AI factories should be built and operated.”

To support the project Lambda will benefit from the Data Center Sales Tax Exemption Program.

“Lambda’s investment in the Kansas City area emphasizes our state’s growing strength in technology and innovation,” noted Michelle Hataway, Director of the Department of Economic Development. “DED is proud to support future-focused projects like this that enhance our workforce, drive sustainable growth across the region, and create opportunities for Missourians to prosper.”

Known as the "Superintelligence Cloud," Lambda builds gigawatt-scale AI factories and provides on-premises GPU hardware and cloud services for training and inference of large language models. The company serves a wide range of customers, major corporations, academic institutions, and the U.S. government.

“Choosing Kansas City, Missouri, for a next-generation AI data center sends a clear message: Missouri is the tech leader in the center of the country,” added Subash Alias, CEO of Missouri Partnership. “We applaud Lambda for building an AI factory in the heart of the U.S. This is a generational investment that will expand opportunity for Missourians and accelerate the digital economy.”

“This investment from Lambda showcases the Kansas City region’s ability to creatively reimagine assets and attract transformative investment,” said Tim Cowden, President and CEO, Kansas City Area Development Council. “Data centers are critical to powering the innovation economy, and Kansas City wields the strength of infrastructure, reliable power and a deep IT talent pool that continues to draw leading technology companies to the region.”

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