Digital Realty Signs 600 MW Evergy Power Deal for Kansas City Data Center Campus, Scalable to 2 GW

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Marin Holt
June 22, 2026
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Initial power (Evergy ESA): 600 MW by early 2028
Full campus capacity: up to 2 GW
Land acquisition: ~1,440 acres for ~$475 million
Phase 1 footprint: 9 buildings, ~3 million sq ft

Digital Realty has signed a 600-megawatt Energy Service Agreement with Evergy to power a new hyperscale data center campus outside Kansas City, the company disclosed in a June 22, 2026 securities filing. The agreement covers 600 MW of utility power by early 2028 and is structured to grow to 2 gigawatts at full delivery. Digital Realty paid roughly $475 million for about 1,440 acres at Astra Enterprise Park in De Soto, Kansas, where the first phase will span nine buildings and roughly 3 million square feet.

The power commitment, not the land, is the headline. Hyperscale operators across the country are stalled in multi-year interconnection queues, and a signed utility supply agreement is what allows a campus of this size to move to construction. Evergy, the regulated utility serving eastern Kansas and western Missouri, will stage the delivery so that 600 MW is available by early 2028, then scale toward the full 2 GW as later phases come online.

The first phase sits at W. 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue in De Soto, on the site of a former ammunition plant that Kansas has redeveloped as Astra Enterprise Park. Digital Realty acquired the acreage for about $475 million in cash and operating-partnership units. By datacenterHawk’s count, the Kansas City metro is now the seventh-largest data center market in the United States when capacity under construction and in planning is included.

Critical Perspective

Digital Realty is committing to 600 MW from Evergy by early 2028 with a contractual path to 2 GW, after paying about $475 million for roughly 1,440 acres. A signed Energy Service Agreement is not yet delivered power, and it leaves open who funds the generation and transmission Evergy must build, the same cost-allocation fight now playing out in PJM and ERCOT. Amazon’s 960 MW co-location deal at Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear plant looked locked in until federal regulators rejected the amended interconnection arrangement in November 2024, proving a signed data-center power pact can still unwind. If the 2 GW ramp lands on Evergy’s system, will Kansas households or the hyperscaler cover the upgrades that make it firm?

Why It Matters

Access to firm power has replaced land and fiber as the binding constraint on where hyperscale data centers get built. Securing 600 MW up front, with a contractual path to 2 GW, lets Digital Realty commit capital before a single building is finished, and it hands Evergy a large, predictable load to plan generation and transmission around. For Kansas ratepayers and regulators, a load of that scale raises the same questions now surfacing across PJM and ERCOT: who pays for the grid upgrades, and how firm is the ramp. Expect the delivery schedule and cost allocation to be scrutinized as the campus advances toward its early-2028 first-power target.