A Springfield, Missouri-based engineering firm has set up shop in Kansas City, opening its first local office at 1001 E. 101st Terrace and launching a hiring push for engineers and designers, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. Toth & Associates says it picked Kansas City in part because of the region's pool of experienced electric utility engineers, and the firm is also eyeing work tied to the metro's fast-growing data center sector.
Toth & Associates describes itself on its website as a full-service firm specializing in electric utility engineering, structural engineering, civil engineering, land surveying, right-of-way acquisition and GIS mapping, according to tothassociates.com. The company notes that its work spans everything from substations to transmission lines to civil infrastructure. Founded in 2003, the firm says it has grown from a specialized utility shop into a multidisciplinary team of electrical, civil and structural engineers, and it is headquartered in Springfield with existing offices in Oregon, Washington state and Montana, per the same source. For the new Kansas City positions, the company is offering a sign-on bonus worth 10% of annual salary for qualifying roles, and it is seeking senior managers and client leaders in addition to engineers and designers.
A Firm Betting on Data Center Demand
The Kansas City expansion comes as Toth & Associates is already scaling up companywide. The firm expects to cross 250 employees this year, according to the Springfield Business Journal, which also reported that the company would hire 15 experienced engineers immediately if it could find them. Toth & Associates told the outlet its growth is being driven partly by the country's growing energy needs, in large part due to data center growth, and the firm says it has spent more than a decade working with a client tied to one of the biggest data centers in the world. The company's site names two vice presidents and describes their engineering roles, per Toth and Associates.
Kansas City's Crowded Data Center Pipeline
Toth & Associates is entering a market where at least 10 proposals for hyperscale data centers have surfaced across the Kansas City metro, according to KSHB, which defines mega data centers as facilities using more than 75 megawatts of daily electricity or spanning dozens of acres. The outlet reported that if all 10 or more of those projects begin operating, the region's energy supply may not meet demand. Accounts of how many are currently running differ: KSHB reported that only Meta's campus in Smithville had come online, while the same report also noted that some of the proposed hyperscale facilities are described elsewhere as already up and running. Evergy, which will supply power to Google's and Meta's data centers, has implemented a new, higher rate structure for large-load customers, KSHB reported.
Seven Kansas City-area data center projects saw activity in 2025, according to the Kansas City Business Journal, which also reported that a $500 million AI factory project revived a dormant site in the metro. Among the region's marquee projects is Google's Project Mica, a Northland campus at 12701 N Arrowhead Tfwy northeast of Interstate 435 and U.S. 169 Highway, confirmed by KCTV5. Google said it will cover the full energy costs of powering the facility, the station reported. The project could require up to 500 megawatts of energy at full capacity, though project materials reference nearly 700 megawatts, Axios reported.
More Megaprojects Across the Metro
The Kansas City Star has reported that Project Bluestem, a conceptual hyperscale campus proposed near Tonganoxie Business Park in Leavenworth County, is expected to create more than 1,000 construction jobs and at least 100 permanent facility jobs. The Star also reported that Metrobloks is planning a $1.4 billion data center in Liberty, Missouri, and that Nebius is building an at least 800-megawatt facility in Independence, with at least five of the metro's pending proposals planned to run on 100 megawatts or more.
Against that backdrop of megawatt-hungry campuses, Toth & Associates' push into Kansas City for electric utility engineering talent lines up with a construction wave that shows little sign of slowing.
