Technology
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…
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Posted August 20, 2025 Meta’s $1 billion data center has officially opened and is now serving traffic. The facility is now working in conjunction with Meta’s global infrastructure that connects billions of people worldwide, according to a Wednesday release. The…
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Posted April 15, 2025 The Port Authority of Kansas City voted to approve a $10 billion tax break for Google's data center in the Kansas City Northland. The Port KC development committee met on Monday where members voted to recommend…
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Posted April 11, 2025 VML has promoted Jeff Geheb to CEO of VML Enterprise Solutions, the company’s $1.5 billion global digital transformation business. VML Enterprise Solutions combines VML’s technology transformation, commerce, customer experience, and consulting capabilities with WPP Open's AI-driven…
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Posted April 7, 2025 Iron Prairie Ventures, a Kansas City-based venture capital firm, has raised a $15 million fund aimed at helping startups in the industrial sector. Iron Prairie Ventures plans to invest in approximately 25 companies, with initial investments…
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Posted March 26, 2025 QTS Data Centers announced that its chief executive officer and chairman, Chad Williams, will step down after more than twenty years in the position building the now $60 billion company. Williams’ decision to step down will…
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Posted January 20, 2025 A University of Missouri-Kansas City partnership that wants to develop an energy materials campus in Kansas City is now a finalist in a national competition, competing for an award worth $160 million over 10 years. In…
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Posted January 17, 2025 Updated at 3:40 p.m., January 17, 2025 The $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in De Soto is nearing completion and will soon begin powering its first assembly line. Kansas leaders and legislators gathered…
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Posted January 15, 2025 Aerospace solutions company Butler National Corporation announced it has appointed Jeff Yowell to the position of executive chairman. Butler National announced Yowell will take the newly created position of executive chairman, according to a release. Yowell…
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Posted November 4, 2024 Lenexa-based Centrinex, a contact center management company with a head count of 600 employees, has sold to New York-based Covisian Group. Covisian Group operates 46 contact control centers throughout Europe and South America. While the company…
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