{"id":1004802889,"date":"2026-06-25T01:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004802889"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:11:38","slug":"digital-realty-enters-kansas-city-to-build-600mw-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-enters-kansas-city-to-build-600mw-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Realty to Enter Kansas City With 600 MW Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004802893\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-enters-kansas-city-to-build-600mw-campus\/image-76\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Christopher Flaten&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;L2D-20c&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1775904669&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;12.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Data Center Development. Image by Southport Images\/Adobe Stock\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Image by Southport Images\/Adobe Stock, downloaded by the Art Department. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Image by Southport Images\/Adobe Stock&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg?w=1024\" height=\"768\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"Aerial shot of a data center development. \" class=\"wp-image-1004802893\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2026\/06\/image_803203.jpeg?resize=1024,768 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Digital Realty plans to develop a hyperscale campus in Kansas City, Mo. <em>Image by Southport Images\/Adobe Stock<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Digital Realty Trust Inc. has acquired a 1,440-acre powered land site in Kansas City, Kan., for $474 million. The REIT will develop a hyperscale facility on the site. The transaction marks its entrance into the Kansas City market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prop up the data center project, Digital Realty has entered into an Energy Service Agreement with Evergy, the local provider, for 600 megawatts of power by early 2028. The agreement is scalable up to 2 gigawatts after initial delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/how-significant-is-the-backlash-against-data-centers\/\">How Significant Is the Backlash Against Data Centers?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The company will develop its hyperscale campus in several phases. The first, planned to take shape at W. 103rd St. and Lexington Avenue in De Soto, Kan., will entail the construction of nine buildings across 280 acres, comprising roughly 3 million square feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The upcoming campus is part of Astra Enterprise Park, a 9,000-acre, master-planned megadevelopment located on the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. The site is also home to Panasonic&#8217;s $4 billion EV battery manufacturing facility, which broke ground in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Realty is also slated to acquire two different platforms later this year. It will pay $650 million for an additional 16 percent stake in Teraco, an African data center provider, bringing its total ownership share to 77 percent. The second deal is a $485 million transaction for the entirety of Columbia Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-digital-realty-keeps-busy\">Digital Realty keeps busy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital Realty continues to accelerate its data center investments. At the end of the first quarter, the company closed its inaugural<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/digital-realty-wraps-up-3-3b-data-center-fund\/\"> U.S. hyperscale data center fund<\/a> with $3.25 billion of total equity commitments. The fund will support the acquisition and development of assets in major markets, such as Northern Virginia, Santa Clara, Calif., Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., and New York City. The company will retain 20 percent ownership stake in the fund&#8217;s portfolio, while also serving as manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As AI-driven demand continues to create a wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/what-hyperscaler-growth-means-for-data-center-reits\/#\">growth opportunities for data centers REITs<\/a>, Digital Realty has emerged as one of the leading beneficiaries. Between 2016 and 2025, the company has expanded its total assets from $12 billion to nearly $49 billion.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REIT paid $474 million for the powered land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3619,"featured_media":1004802893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21755,21782,21808,21783,1592,13,21742],"tags":[36123],"class_list":["post-1004802889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centers","category-development","category-featured","category-investment","category-kansas-city","category-midwest","category-latest","tag-digital-realty-trust-inc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Digital Realty to Enter Kansas City With 600 MW Facility - 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