NBIS Kansas City Data Center

Kansas City is an established Nebius colocation location at Patmos's former Kansas City Star printing facility on McGee Street. It provides a useful contrast with the much larger, purpose-built Independence campus: one entered the network through a partner's building, while the other is being developed over several years.

The original Kansas City announcement described an initial 5 MW deployment expandable to 40 MW. Those figures remain a dated starting point and potential expansion envelope. They are not a verified measurement of the capacity operating today.

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What the original agreement establishes

Nebius's November 19, 2024 announcement named Patmos, identified the former printing facility and described a first availability zone expected to launch in the first quarter of 2025. H200 GPUs were the initial focus, with Blackwell expected later. The company also gave the 5-to-40 MW expansion range. Nebius's original US availability-zone announcement.

The announcement establishes the location and the initial plan. It does not establish that every later GPU generation has been installed there. A fleet-wide technology announcement needs a site-specific connection before it becomes a Kansas City equipment inventory.

Current evidence confirms the operating relationship

Nebius's current region documentation lists Kansas City as public region us-central1. Patmos's community materials identify Nebius as the anchor tenant at its downtown Kansas City campus. Together these provide a stronger basis for the current relationship than a map pin alone. Nebius service regions. Patmos's tenant and property clarification.

Patmos describes the Kansas City conversion as a 25 MW retrofit in that account. It does not reconcile that figure to Nebius's older expansion range or provide a current tenant load. The figures should therefore retain their source and scope rather than being averaged or silently substituted for one another.

Two nearby projects must remain separate

Patmos is also developing a smaller property in Independence and explicitly states that Nebius is not involved. Nebius's own Independence campus, near Route 78 and Little Blue Parkway, is a separate development with its own power and construction programme.

This distinction matters when interpreting local news. A permit or delivery at a Patmos Independence property does not prove progress at the Nebius gigawatt campus. Likewise, a Nebius regional expansion does not establish a larger allocation inside the Kansas City building.

A useful operating base, with undisclosed site economics

Colocation can allow a provider to enter a market without first completing an entire owned campus. The trade-off is dependence on the host's available power, space and delivery programme. Kansas City's contribution is best judged through service availability, disclosed customer demand and any confirmed expansion within the building.

The older article went further by treating estimated revenue yields and a fully populated 40 MW footprint as evidence of a stable site margin. Those calculations are retained below as historical assumptions. They are not reported Kansas City revenue, current contract prices or proof of a fully utilized deployment.

The Nebius company page connects this site study with current business research and separately dated forecasts. Factual coverage was reviewed through September 17, 2026.

Historical calculations retained from the original study

The following limited examples are preserved from the original publication. Their assumptions and outputs have not been revised. They are not current operating measurements, a new Northwise forecast or a statement of current contracted prices. The factual discussion above uses the latest reviewed evidence.

These original revenue estimates assume hardware, pricing and utilization that were not established as actual Kansas City results. The 40 MW expansion case remains a historical scenario, not a current site revenue forecast.

At Kansas City, revenue density scales directly with the progression from Hopper to Blackwell-class systems. Early H200 deployments support estimated annual revenue of roughly $8 million per MW.

Blackwell B200 and B300 systems push that figure to approximately $11.6 million per MW, driven by higher throughput, improved utilization, and premium demand for frontier compute. Future Rubin-class systems are modeled materially higher as agentic workloads expand inference duration and memory intensity.

Estimated revenue density by hardware generation:

Assuming full expansion to 40 MW, populated primarily with Blackwell hardware, the Kansas City site supports an estimated $440 million to $460 million in annual revenue. That contribution scales independently of Independence’s construction timeline and arrives earlier in the revenue curve.

Kansas City functions as a margin floor, producing steady, high-yield revenue that offsets procurement spend while larger campuses remain under development.

The site’s economics favor stability. Enterprise and inference workloads drive predictable utilization patterns rather than burst-driven volatility. Contract structures emphasize reserved capacity and multi-month commitments, which smooth revenue recognition and improve planning visibility.

Kansas City therefore carries weight beyond its size. It converts power into revenue at a rate that supports the broader capital program and reinforces Nebius’ financial narrative as it scales toward its $7 billion to $9 billion ARR targets.