Kansas City, MO (Jan. 12, 2026) – Patmos Hosting Inc., a leading provider of internet
infrastructure, data center and hosting services, today announced that it has received a
$100 million C-PACE loan from PACE Loan Group to continue development of the
former Kansas City Star building into a state-of-the-art multi-use AI Campus.

When the next phase of infrastructure upgrades is complete this spring, the 421,112-
square-foot, four-story Patmos AI Campus will feature 35 megawatts of power for high-
density GPU, HPC, and AI infrastructure companies. The C-PACE loan will fund
energy-efficient infrastructure improvements as part of the continued expansion.
Patmos initially started construction in late 2024, building out the initial 5MW in less than
90 days, followed by another 7MW over the next 90 days – establishing itself as the
supercomputer speed-to-market leader. Since then, two publicly traded tenants have
executed multi-year leases with Patmos and set up shop in Kansas City, enabling the
company to purchase and renovate the iconic Kansas City landmark dramatically ahead
of schedule.

“With this loan, Patmos is able to continue to deliver on our speed to market promise for
our clients while creating an AI Campus that serves as the technology hub for one of the
fastest expanding regions in the industry. Using a PACE vehicle to expand AI
infrastructure has never been done — but that’s the Patmos way. It allowed us to build
fast while maintaining long-term sustainability, profitability, and ownership”, said John
Johnson, Patmos’ founder and chief executive officer. “The PLG team understood our
vision at every turn and worked to deliver a solution that was as unique as our business
model. We are looking forward to working with them on subsequent retrofits.”

Located at 1601 McGee Street in downtown Kansas City, on the site that had been
previously declined by the Kansas City Royals for its new stadium, the five-acre campus
is part of a significant retrofit project. In addition to its state-of-the-art AI data halls,
Patmos will convert nearly 150,000 square feet of the building into a multi-tenant
technology hub, co-working, and event space, advancing its commitment to be the most
people-centric AI infrastructure company on the planet.

The C-PACE proceeds will be used for energy-efficiency, equipment, HVAC, and
plumbing improvements to the property to support the data center’s cooling and
electrical load. The project is expected to be completed in March 2026.

“C-PACE made a lot of sense for this renovation. Many of the conversion costs were
eligible, and the long-duration capital is well aligned with Patmos’s business plan. Our
funds complemented the borrower’s significant investment to create an efficient, turnkey
AI data center in a city center,” said Rafi Golberstein, CEO and founder – PACE Loan
Group. Robbie Pinkas, senior vice president, PACE Loan Group, originated the loan for
Patmos. “I’ve long seen the potential of using C-PACE for data centers since efficiency
makes such a big impact on their bottom line, and am excited to continue finding
opportunities in this space.”

The property is located in the downtown core of Kansas City, providing strong access to
the urban area, which supports industrial, communications, warehouse, and office uses.
Its urban placement provides proximity to fiber routes and utility infrastructure,
supporting its continued suitability as a hyperscale data center.

“This was a truly historic project given that it is the largest C-PACE Project in Missouri
by financing amount and supports the growing energy demands of data centers, which
makes C-PACE funding for energy efficiency improvements of utmost importance in
project development,” said Josh Campbell, Executive Director, Missouri Energy
Initiative.

The C-PACE program is managed by Show Me PACE, a PACE program available
throughout the state of Missouri, including Jackson County, and is overseen by the
Show Me PACE Clean Energy Development Board (“CEDB”). Missouri’s program was
founded in 2010 and revised in 2021. To date, the program has helped finance over
$329 million in improvements across the state.

###

About PACE Loan Group
PACE Loan Group (PLG) is a national leader in the C-PACE marketplace, providing
direct C-PACE financing to commercial property owners. PLG benefits from institutional
support with capital from funds managed by AB CarVal, a part of Alliance Bernstein.
The PLG team provides expertise up and down the capital stack, from origination and
underwriting to loan servicing. To learn more about PLG, visit www.paceloangroup.com.

About Patmos Hosting
Patmos Hosting, Inc. delivers Freedom as a Service, providing organizations with an
independent alternative to Big Tech’s commercial constraints, censorship, cancellation
and deplatforming. Patmos owns and operates data center infrastructure with
decentralized connectivity, open peering, and free Internet Exchange hosting, ensuring
resilience and true independence. Its services span multi-megawatt colocation for AI
and hyperscale workloads, GPU/high-performance compute, custom data centers,
domains, web and cloud hosting, colocation and tailored website and application
development.

Founded in 2022, Patmos is headquartered in Kansas City, MO, with teams and data
centers in Kansas City, Dallas, Phoenix, San Jose, Newark, Frankfurt. To learn more,
visit https://patmos.tech/

About Show Me PACE
Show Me PACE offers a broad range of benefits to commercial building owners,
including industrial, agriculture, multi-family, nonprofit, and public (governmental)
properties. PACE financing is entirely private capital, with no taxpayer funds involved.
Repayment occurs through an annual assessment on the property. Show Me PACE
lenders offer 100% upfront financing for eligible energy efficiency and renewable energy
improvements through fixed-rate loans for up to 20 years. A key requirement is that the
benefits of the project must exceed the cost of the measures. For more information, visit
www.ShowMePACE.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLG media contact: Martha Nevanen
[email protected]
651-492-5861
Patmos media contact: Joanne Hogue
[email protected]
860-658-8246

All companies need IT infrastructure. If we simplify the options available, you have 100% on-premises infrastructure at one end of the spectrum, 100% hosted infrastructure at the other, and a few different options in between

Colocation is one of those options and is favored by IT and business decision makers for a number of reasons. Let’s explore the benefits of colocation, and why it might be the perfect solution for your business.  

What is colocation?

Colocation (or ‘colo’ for short) is an IT infrastructure strategy where you rent data center space from a colocation provider, and use that space to host your own physical servers.

The colocation provider manages the data center and takes care of power, cooling, networking and security at the facility. You own, control and manage the server itself. 

Colocation gives you the benefits of self-owned, self-managed hardware – just like owning and running your IT on premises – but you don’t need to build your own data center, or worry about providing sufficient power, cooling and bandwidth for your equipment. 

Why choose colocation? Who needs it?

From compliance to cost reduction, colocation can be an ideal IT strategy in many different scenarios. The Patmos team has years of experience providing colocation services: in our view, these are the top five reasons why companies choose colocation over other IT strategies.

1. Compliance and control (you need to own the hardware)

Retaining ownership and control of the hardware is one of the biggest factors in choosing colocation over cloud, especially for companies working with sensitive customer data, or developing new IP, or working in regulated industries. In these cases, hosting your applications and data on servers owned by third parties, or that are shared with multiple tenants, may not be appropriate or even legally viable. You need to own the hardware.

Facilities compliance can also be a factor, if you are required to host your IT infrastructure in locations compliant with SOC, ISO or PCI standards, and your own sites don’t have those certifications. 

2. Resilience and redundancy (you need to protect your operations)

Using colocation to add backup, mirror and disaster recovery locations to your existing IT is another popular colocation use case. With diverse, distributed colocation sites you can protect your business from unexpected outages. This can also be a requirement from insurance companies: if your business is in a region prone to natural disasters (such as hurricanes), it may be mandatory to have distributed IT infrastructure to get any kind of business insurance. 

3. Strategic business locations (you need IT closer to clients)

Deploying your IT in a regional colocation facility can literally put your applications closer to your teams and your customers, reducing latency, improving productivity, and the customer experience. Using a colocation provider is a fast, easy way to put another dot on your business map.

However, proximity isn’t just about physical distance – it is equally about network latency. If you are targeting customers in Florida, for example, having your server in Florida might seem like be a good starting point – but if the facility doesn’t have excellent networking, the end user experience may not be optimal. 

One real-world customer we work used Patmos to overcome just that challenge. It’s a call center business based in Miami: they found that moving their servers to our Dallas facility actually delivered a substantial improvement in call quality, because our network speed and redundancy was superior. 

4. Outgrowing your premises (you need a bigger boat)

Sometimes colocation is just the best way to support a growing business. You start with a modest amount of equipment that you run on your premises, whether it’s under a desk, in an IT cupboard, or in a dedicated server room.

As you grow, your IT needs grow with you, and many companies reach a point where it is no longer feasible to operate the equipment on-site. Usually, that’s because you’ve exceeded the space, power and cooling available at your site. Access to reliable power is a particular concern for businesses in the US today. Colocation enables you to retain control and ownership of your IT infrastructure, but use specialist off-site facilities to host it – where power redundancy is built in. 

5. Transition from hyperscale (you need to save money)

Last but not least, colocation is a popular option for companies looking to reduce the cost of services they are currently running in hyperscale cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. 

This often happens in businesses that have scaled beyond start-up phase. As a small business, cloud may have offered a quick and relatively easy solution for IT infrastructure, but at scale, the micro-services model and highly variable, unpredictable costs became unsustainable. 

Switching to self-owned IT infrastructure offers a more predictable, stable OPEX model, and using colocation you still have a partner taking care of the physical data center infrastructure, power, cooling and security. 

What colocation features are important?

What should you look for in a colocation provider? We’ve touched on most of the important colocation features in the use cases above, but let’s summarize and add a few more here:

Physical locations

The physical locations available will be an important consideration for customer proximity, latency and disaster recovery mitigation. There are many colocation providers offering a single physical location, and that’s fine: you may be happy managing a mix of providers to cover the locations you need. However, it can make more sense to partner with a colocation provider that offers multiple locations, not just to reduce the management overhead, but to simplify scaling when you need to expand to new regions. 

Carriers and networking 

Closely related to physical location, the number of network carriers and the bandwidth available at a colocation facility is vital. Look for blended bandwidth and colo providers who have deep network peering relationships, and connections to Internet exchanges. You need as much flexibility and redundancy as possible in the networking set-up, as well as raw performance from high-speed ethernet and fiber. 

Power and cooling redundancy

Not all data centers are created equal! Reliable IT infrastructure needs reliable power, so your colocation provider should have built-in redundancy (N+1 or better) and connections to multiple power providers, as well as UPS facilities. And, of course, should be able to power 20A or 30A set-ups and 100kW+ cabinets with ease. You may not need it today, but the overhead gives you room to scale in the future.

Physical security

All good colo providers will invest in physical security to protect your servers – after all, they are YOUR servers. Look for multi-factor physical access with biometric authentication, CCTV/video surveillance with at least 90 days of recorded footage, on-site 24×7 security teams, robot surveillance and more. 

Certifications

If compliance is important to your business or required for the industry you work in, you need a colocation provider with the correct data center certifications: SOC2, SOC3, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 14001, and PCI-DSS are good starting points, as well as any industry-specific standards your business requires. 

Patmos colocation services

At Patmos we have years of experience managing colocation hardware for clients ranging from small businesses, to other service providers, and medium-to-large enterprises.

Colocation for Small and Medium Businesses

Our colocation services offer single rack servers through to whole cabinets at Patmos-owned facilities, that are strategically located in Phoenix, Dallas, and Kansas City – with multiple carriers, blended bandwidth, N+1 to N+N redundancy, and stringent physical security measures. 

Colocation for Enterprise

At enterprise scale, colocation is more about occupying multiple aisles in a data center rather than rack space or cabinets (often, it’s even an entire data center). The main enterprise colocation use case today is for hyperscale, high-density AI cloud infrastructure: GPU servers with the highest power requirements, that need custom cooling and bespoke cabinet designs. 

It is “just” colocation, from one point of view, but at this level of scale and customization we treat this as a separate AI Campus / high-density datacenter service at Patmos. 

Want to discuss your colocation needs?

We’re happy to help! Visit our colocation page, or our AI Campus page, and get in touch there for more information. 

The Patmos AI campus in the heart of downtown Kansas City shows what’s possible when speed meets smart design.

Instead of starting from scratch, we repurposed The Kansas City Star’s former printing-press facility — a brownfield site with dual utility feeds, a chilled-water system, and industrial-grade power. That foundation let us move from demolition to deployment in record time, bringing clients online in months instead of years.

Network World‘s Andy Patrizio talks to Patmos COO Joe Morgan about how we converted an unused printing press into an AI datacenter within 90 days.

Learn more about the project and our brownfield development strategy in Network World‘s article here: https://www.networkworld.com/article/4078175/how-to-set-up-an-ai-data-center-in-90-days.html

Maybe you don’t care about datacenter infrastructure, and if you’ve ever seen a typical datacenter you would be forgiven for that. Normally they are anonymous industrial sheds on the outskirts of town – ugly, boring slabs of steel that have zero connection to human beings, and often have close to zero human beings working inside. 

That sucks. We wanted something different, and a unique facility in Kansas City was the first space on our list to transform into something better. 

If you’re local, you know it as the KC Star building, where the Kansas City Star newspaper used to be printed. It was the perfect place for a datacenter retro-fit, and Patmos assumed operations there in November 2024. 

It’s a high-capacity GPU / AI datacenter

In terms of datacenter capacity, it’s a 30MW facility, right now, with space, power and cooling for next-generation GPU and AI infrastructure – hardware that requires not a few tens of kilowatts per cabinet, but hundreds. 

The datacenter part of the building has been operational with clients for some time, and we’ve just made another 10MW available for new clients to roll in – and when we say roll in, it’s as close to an on-demand roll-in of your racks as possible. 

Normally when high-density colocation space is available, it takes the datacenter operator six months or more to prepare it for new clients. 

We’ve cut that down to 90 days by working in parallel with customers to fit out their space, to their exact specifications, and project-managing everything so that when their hardware is delivered we’re ready at the datacenter. 

It’s also a multi-use datacenter by design

That’s the first twist, but there’s another. This building is an iconic part of the cityscape, with history that everyone local knows. We set out to make it very different from typical anonymous datacenters, by making it useful for humans, not just AI servers. 

It’s a very large building, and alongside the datacenter facility we’re creating shared working spaces, conference spaces, and venues for concerts, art and culture, and events for the local community… the sky’s the limit. 

Patmos COO, Joe Morgan, spoke about the concept in a recent interview with local station KCTV5.

“A lot of times, data centers that are coming in, they’re not really giving back to the community in any way,” Joe said. “We’re finding creative ways to re-use those buildings for tech working spaces, for event spaces, art installations… whatever we can do to take what is probably an eyesore and turn it into something that fits inside the community.” 

Robot security rolls in too

While we’ve been making the KC facility ‘rack and roll ready’ for clients, something else has rolled onto the scene – the heaviest member of the Patmos team. Meet Lance, our new security robot! 

Standing just shy of five feet tall, but weighing in at 420lbs, Lance is no pushover. It’s an automated security bot that patrols the perimeter of the building, keeping an eye on ne’er-do-wells and helping to secure the premises for datacenter colo clients, and future co-working space users or concert-goers. 

Lance complements the human security team at the facility, and this week caught the eye of The Kansas City Star, who caught up with Joe Morgan to learn more. 

“Lance is actually a tool for the security people as much as anything else,” Joe explained. “Even with 24/7 security, it’s like, do you really at two in the morning want to send one individual by themselves to, you know, go inspect something? It’s a big building, right, it’s essentially a full city block.”

With autonomous AI and remote-control modes, Lance’s 360-degree camera has already captured footage of an attempted burglary in the area, which was passed on to the police to help their investigation. As it patrols the area, Lance has also become a feature for downtown KC locals. 

“I think there’s like five different TikToks out there now about Lance. He’s definitely the most popular employee, I think, at Patmos right now,” said Joe. “And he brings a smile to people’s faces.”

You can read the full article and watch an interview with Joe over at The Kansas City Star – which, as well as being quite a detailed write-up, is also a strong contender for this week’s Headline Editor Tries Hard For Clicks award. We appreciate the coverage and traffic, guys – thanks!  

Learn more?

If you’d like to know more about our AI datacenter capabilities, check out the Patmos AI Campus page – or contact us for more info. 

Kansas City, MO – September 23, 2025 – Patmos, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure, datacenter and hosting services, today announced the expansion of its AI datacenter facility in downtown Kansas City, and the immediate availability of 10MW of new colocation space for high-density GPU, HPC and AI infrastructure. 

Purpose-built for Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing, and GPU workloads, the Kansas City facility is the first Patmos AI Campus – transforming disused industrial buildings into advanced data centers alongside spaces for entertainment, conferences, co-working, and social events. Patmos assumed operations in November, 2024. It previously housed the printing press for The KC Star newspaper, and is known locally as “The Star”. 

The Patmos datacenter now has 35MW of total capacity, offering AI companies and enterprises large-scale, rack-ready colocation in 2.5MW increments, with white space built out to client specifications in as little as 90 days. With densities of 100kW+ per rack, the Patmos datacenter offers fast time-to-online and the power and cooling needed for next-generation AI infrastructure. 

“The demand for AI infrastructure far outstrips the available supply, and Kansas City – like many major cities in the Midwest – is ideally placed to meet this demand in the U.S., with the skilled workers, the connectivity and the appetite from municipal authorities to make it happen,” said Joe Morgan, Patmos’ Chief Operating Officer. 

“Building AI-ready datacenters from scratch is a complex and time-consuming process, and going to hyperscalers for new infrastructure can take years. By retro-fitting datacenters out of  facilities like the Star building, the Patmos AI Campus approach can deliver the capacity needed in months, not years, and with 10MW of new capacity available now we’re excited to welcome new tenants to the facility. Meanwhile, we’re creating the social and co-working spaces that will make this facility valuable for humans, not just servers – which is not just a ‘nice to have’, it’s a requirement that helps revitalize the area, create jobs, and make high-tech work for people not just corporations.”

The 360,000 square-foot campus will include office space for start-ups and enterprises, as well as event spaces for conferences, meet-ups and community gatherings. The new 10MW datacenter capacity is available now. Interested parties can find more information at https://patmos.tech/high-density-ai-datacenters/.  

About Patmos Hosting
Patmos Hosting, Inc. delivers Freedom as a Service^TM, providing organizations with an independent alternative to Big Tech’s commercial constraints, censorship, cancellation and deplatforming. Patmos owns and operates datacenter infrastructure with decentralized connectivity, open peering, and free Internet Exchange hosting, ensuring resilience and true independence. Its services span multi-megawatt colocation for AI and hyperscale workloads, GPU/high-performance compute, custom data centers, domains, web and cloud hosting, colocation and tailored website and application development. 

Founded in 2022, Patmos is headquartered in Kansas City, MO, with teams and datacenters in Kansas City, Dallas, Phoenix, San Jose, Newark, Frankfurt.

Contact Information
Joanne Hogue
Smart Connections PR for Patmos Hosting
[email protected]
+1 (410) 658-8246

In the article titled, “The AI Data-Center Boom Is a Job-Creation Bust,” our CEO, John Johnson, shared our innovative and community-focused approach to building data centers. Unlike the conventional models critiqued in the article, Patmos is pioneering a method that reimagines data centers not as energy-draining monuments, but as powerful engines of community development. Our vision transforms these facilities into catalysts for urban renewal, generating hundreds of quality jobs and boosting local economies.

In his follow-up comments on LinkedIn, John stated:

“We need to rethink the way data centers are built and operated. Why build a rural concrete tombstone that sucks critical power and provides few long-term human jobs when you can harvest the economic power of a data center to create a thriving ecosystem of tech serving humans? Data centers built with the common good in mind can revitalize urban renewal zones, provide hundreds of great jobs, and generate abundant revenue windfalls to communities. It’s time to think more integrally about the data center. That’s exactly what Patmos is doing in Kansas City.”

We invite you to read the full article to learn more about our community-focused approach to building AI data centers: https://link.patmos.tech/GLrA1Jj 

Goals of the Secure Hosting Alliance

The Secure Hosting Alliance envisions an ecosystem where member companies work together to set standards that prioritize security, privacy, abuse prevention, and transparency. To achieve this, SHA is committed to:

• Develop and promote a cooperative framework for fraud prevention, abuse response, law enforcement coordination, domain industry collaboration, and support to enhance trust and safety in the web hosting industry.
• Surface common industry standards for web hosting and cloud service providers and those who provide services in the industry around privacy, security, transparency, and ethical advertising practices.
• Develop a unified language and taxonomy for the web hosting portion of the cloud industry, setting clear definitions and fostering better communication.
• Contribute to legislative and regulatory discussions, advocating for data protection and cybersecurity measures tailored to web hosting and cloud providers.
• Engage in community-building activities, including virtual and in-person meetups at industry conferences, to facilitate collaboration and networking opportunities.

John Van Lowe, our VP of Customer Success, has been an active participant in SHA. 

He shares that, “Patmos is looking forward to working closely with the SHA to develop best practices and guidelines for the key components of our client services which include domain registrations, managed environments, application and site development, and infrastructure services. We look to share industry-wide initiatives with our client base, improve secure infrastructure and hosting practices internally, and provide our recommendations when dealing with proposed policy adoptions with the group”

Learn More

Curious to explore how the Secure Hosting Alliance is set to transform the web hosting industry?

Visit https://hostingsecurity.net/ to learn how SHA is setting new standards in hosting excellence.

Don’t miss our feature in Hosting Advice, where we highlight our involvement in SHA and share insights on our commitment to secure hosting: https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/i2coalition-launches-secure-hosting-alliance-to-raise-hosting-standards/

Stay tuned as we continue to lead the way in building a more secure and ethical digital future.

Why the i2Coalition?

The i2Coalition is a collective of businesses and organizations dedicated to ensuring the continued growth and development of the Internet’s infrastructure. Through its working groups, the i2Coalition tackles critical global policy issues impacting the Internet, such as cybersecurity, privacy, technology and trade, and DNS challenges. By joining the i2Coalition, Patmos gains the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded companies that are committed to protecting the open Internet. 

A Shared Vision for the Internet

Patmos and the i2Coalition are united by a common vision: an Internet that remains open, decentralized, and free from overreach by monopolistic entities or governmental regulation that could stifle innovation. As Joe Morgan, our Chief Infrastructure Officer, recently explained in an interview with the i2Coalition, we see ourselves as part of the “parallel economy”—a movement of individuals and businesses seeking alternatives to monopolistic service providers.

“We’ve seen people who get de-platformed or de-hosted just because they don’t fit the regular mold,” Joe noted. “Patmos provides cancel-proof hosting to ensure that voices are not silenced based on ideological reasons, as long as they operate within the bounds of the law and standard terms of service.”

This mission aligns with the i2Coalition’s efforts to create an environment where smaller, independent players in the Internet infrastructure space can thrive without undue influence from large corporations or ill-informed regulatory frameworks.

Supporting the Next Generation of Infrastructure

As we look to the future, Patmos is also focused on the technical evolution of the Internet. With the rise of generative AI and GPU-intensive workloads, we are at the forefront of providing the infrastructure needed to support these advancements. Our recent partnership with Hydra Host and plans for a new AI-focused data center underscore our commitment to staying ahead of industry trends while maintaining our core values.

Conclusion

Joining the i2Coalition is a natural extension of Patmos’ mission to champion freedom of speech and decentralization in the Internet’s infrastructure. Through collaboration and advocacy, we are proud to contribute to the ongoing fight for an open, innovative, and equitable Internet. To learn more about our work and the i2Coalition, check out our Member Spotlight here: https://i2coalition.com/i2coalition-member-spotlight-qa-patmos/

Nebius selected Patmos for its demonstrated agility and expertise in phased construction, delivering custom data center buildouts faster than the industry standard. The first phase of construction includes extensive infrastructure upgrades, such as backups, generators, and cage space, tailored to support Nebius’ demanding workload requirements. 

By partnering with Patmos, Nebius will deploy its first GPU cluster in the U.S. by Q1 2025 to begin servicing businesses and enterprises looking for innovative AI solutions. Nebius plans to deploy up to 35,000 GPUs with Patmos. This partnership underscores Patmos’ commitment to supporting global technology leaders with reliable, high-speed, and secure AI infrastructure solutions in the heart of America.

“Converting an iconic newspaper press building into a high-density AI data center facility is not only an exciting technical challenge but also a meaningful contribution to our community. This project aligns with Patmos’ commitment to democratization and decentralization—allowing us to bypass traditional hyperscalers and partner with an AI-focused cloud newcomer. We’re thrilled to work with trusted partners, bringing together local vendors and expertise to support the needs of a global company like Nebius. This collaboration feels like the perfect mix of innovation and community spirit, building something faster, stronger, and deeply rooted in the local area,” said Joe Morgan, Chief Infrastructure Officer at Patmos.

Andrey Korolenko, Chief Infrastructure and Product Officer at Nebius, added: “Our first GPU cluster in the US is a landmark for Nebius and enables us to better serve our American customers from American infrastructure. In Patmos, we have found a partner who shares our commitment to sustainability and giving back to local communities, as well as being able to deliver on the complex technical and security requirements to support customer workloads in our AI-native cloud and inferencing services. We’re proud to be putting ourselves on the map in the US in Kansas City as we scale up our offering to AI innovators globally.”

Kansas City is a burgeoning hub for AI with the new Patmos Center neighboring hyperscalers such as Meta, Google, and AWS. Through their partnership, Patmos and Nebius present an innovative, independent solution for businesses seeking high-performance infrastructure. Together, Patmos and Nebius bring a new edge to the market, addressing the high-density compute requirements of today’s businesses.

About Patmos

Patmos provides cloud, high-density compute, software, and data center solutions free from the threat of Big Tech censorship. Established as a trusted hosting and professional services provider through its four data centers (Kansas City (x2), Dallas, Phoenix) and its DevHQ (Denver), Patmos has emerged as a leader in custom high-density compute solutions. For those seeking a powerful, tailored alternative to the Big Tech monopoly, Patmos delivers unmatched freedom, security, and reliability. Patmos expects to welcome colocation clients to the new Patmos Center soon. Interested parties can reach out to Patmos for availability. 

About Nebius

Nebius is a technology company building full-stack infrastructure to service the explosive growth of the global AI industry, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and tools and services for developers. Headquartered in Amsterdam and listed on Nasdaq, the Company has a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, North America and Israel.

Nebius’s core business is an AI-centric cloud platform built for intensive AI workloads. With proprietary cloud software architecture and hardware designed in-house (including servers, racks and data center design), Nebius gives AI builders the compute, storage, managed services and tools they need to build, tune and run their models.

A Preferred cloud service provider in the NVIDIA Partner Network, Nebius offers high-end infrastructure optimized for AI training and inference. The Company boasts a team of around 400 skilled engineers, delivering a true hyperscale cloud experience tailored for AI builders.

To learn more please visit www.nebius.com

Contact for media inquiries:
Camilla Patterson
(913) 890-8277
[email protected]

Take for example the case of Daniel and Joe. Daniel is an out and proud “Latino for Trump.” Joe is a former Bernie Sanders delegate and Patmos’ CIO. Joe is Daniel’s boss. These two guys go to work every day building out the newest Patmos Center. You’d think this would make for a frigid working relationship. Not so.

I asked Daniel what this was like. “I’m a Trump guy. I was hesitant to work in tech for that reason – let alone let my position be known; however, I found a company where I am free to be me. I’m not just tolerated here, I’m treasured, and the same goes for my supervisor who has the opposite political opinions … .The support and inclusivity I’ve experienced here affirm that the company’s commitment to respect and diversity is real, not just a claim.”

Joe echoed this. “I came to work at Patmos because I’m passionate about the democratization and decentralization of the internet. This team disagrees on a lot. But we are completely united in our desire to create technology that serves everybody. I joke that Daniel doesn’t know how to vote the right way, but he knows how to rack and stack a data center better than most.” 

So my takeaway from watching these two guys work together is that diversity is actually important. But it’s most important when it goes beyond surface-level demographics. It means diversity of opinion, thought, political ideologies, and creed. Somehow, organically, we have created a company culture and tech solutions that protect authentic human diversity. I didn’t think this was possible until I started working here.

I wanted to write this to counter this notion that “free speech” was a one-party camp. It’s not. 

As our CEO, John Johnson, puts it, “It’s true that the left earned a reputation for canceling the right in recent years. There’s also a growing fear on the left that the right will now be cancelling them retributively in the next four years. If that happens, we’ll still be here for any victim of cancellation. Patmos was built on the simple principle that everybody has a right to speak regardless of political ideology. We’re building an internet that protects freedom of speech at every level for every human. That mission is amplified by the ideological diversity of our remarkable team. We don’t host porn. We don’t host anything illegal. But any ideas are welcome here. Strangely, we love hosting opinions we don’t share. And we love working with people who think differently.”

Our clients on all sides of the spectrum love this when they hear it. Heck, most of our clients aren’t even overtly political in either direction. They’re just businesses who want great service, at a great value, and no down time like everybody else. Employees are drawn here for similar reasons. We are all surprised by the freedom. So, yes, I guess you could say I’m one of Patmos’s many “diversity hires” – we all are.

PS – if you want to be too, Patmos is now hiring for some great positions. Apply here.