Metrobloks, a Los Angeles–based data center developer, and Lincoln Property Co. have formed a joint venture that will focus initially on developing a high-performance data center campus in metro Kansas City, Mo.
The multi-phase project will consist of a 568,000-square-foot campus designed to support hyperscale, AI and enterprise data center workloads, with the possibility of scaling over time beyond its initial 150 MW total utility power.
The companies acquired an approximately 30-acre site at 2525 Old Hughes Road in Liberty, Mo., that is already zoned and powered for data center use. The land is within 10 miles of the GPC Missouri Internet Exchange Point and 13 miles from downtown Kansas City.
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A spokesperson for the joint venture told Commercial Property Executive that, tentatively, the first tranche of development will occur around the third quarter of 2027 and that full capacity is expected by late 2028.
The Liberty project benefits from the Kansas City region’s central U.S. location, established fiber connectivity, competitive power economics, and increasing demand from hyperscale and enterprise users. The development will receive $229 million in tax abatements from the City of Liberty, The Kansas City Star reported.
Since its inception in 2010, LPC’s Data Center Services group has capitalized and managed more than $1.5 billion in data center investments, including 20 operational facilities totaling more than 2.1 million square feet. For its part, Metrobloks has enabled more than 12 GW of total capacity in its 10 years of existence and has developed, acquired or operated about 290 data centers across 25 countries.
Data center companies focus on Kansas City
As of the second half of 2025, the metro had 277 MW in operation, according to a Cushman & Wakefield report. Additionally, there were 342 MW under construction.
Last August, Meta brought a roughly 1 million-square-foot, approximately $800 million data center online in Diode Ventures’ Golden Plains Technology Park, in Kansas City’s Northland submarket. The project is certified LEED Gold.
Back in November 2024, local company Patmos announced plans to build its second data center campus in metro Kansas City, with a twist. The 100 MW facility was an adaptive reuse of a former printing plant used by the Kansas City Star.
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