Lambda Plans to Open KCMO AI Factory in Early 2026

Lambda announced it will be establishing a state-of-the-art AI factory in the Kansas City area next year. Photo credit: Shutterstock (David Gyung).

Posted October 29, 2025

Lambda, a developer of AI factories, announced plans to create an AI factory in the Kansas City area as part of its Midwest region expansion.

Lambda will utilize an existing, unoccupied building to house its planned facility, according to a release. The facility is part of a partnership between Lambda and the Missouri Department of Economic Development and the Missouri Partnership. Under the agreement, Lambda will be the sole tenant of the building and is expected to launch in early 2026 with 24MW of capacity, and the potential to scale up to more than 100MW in the future.

The exact location of the AI factory was not disclosed in the release. 

“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,” Ken Patchett, VP of Datacenter Infrastructure at Lambda, said in the release. “We believe this success stems from completely rethinking how AI factories should be built and operated.”

Founded in 2012, Lambda currently operates 13 other AI factories across 7 states, including California, Utah, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia and Virginia, according to the company’s website.

The facility will initially feature more than 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. The supercomputer is dedicated to a single Lambda customer for large-scale AI training and inference, under a multi-year agreement, according to the release.

The addition of this new data center is in line with the Kansas City area building its data center portfolio. Back in August, Meta officially opened its $1 billion data center in KCMO and is serving traffic. Days later, Port KC approved plans for a $100 billion data center campus in the Northland, expected to open in 2027.

Several data centers are also being planned on the Kansas side, as the De Soto City Council approved a development project for a data center building near the Panasonic plant, which began operations earlier this year. Additionally, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City approved master plans for a six-building data center near the Kansas Speedway. Both projects are expected to become operational in 2027.