Overview
Aligned Data Centers is a Plano, Texas-based hyperscale data center platform that designs, builds and operates campuses for cloud and AI workloads across North and South America. The company markets an "adaptive" modular design approach: colocation halls whose power density, cooling and layout can be reconfigured for a tenant's changing workload rather than fixed at construction.
Aligned reports roughly 5 GW of contracted and available capacity across about 50 campuses, with US sites in Texas, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, Arizona, Utah and Oregon, and Latin American operations run under the ODATA brand in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico.\n\nThe business is privately held and majority-backed by Macquarie Asset Management, which took control through Macquarie Infrastructure Partners V in 2018 and has since grown the platform through the ODATA acquisition and repeated multi-billion-dollar sustainability-linked debt raises. Aligned does not publish a cumulative equity total, and there is no public listing.
CEO Andrew Schaap has led the company since 2017 and sits on the board; the executive bench includes CFO Meghan Baivier, CIO Anubhav Raj, CCO Eric Jacobs and CTO Michael Welch, with ODATA run as a distinct operating unit under CEO Ricardo Alário.\n\nAligned's near-term growth is anchored on Project Caprock, a 540 MW campus under construction in Hale County, Northwest Texas, that the company positions as its flagship AI-training-scale site. The operator emphasizes 100 percent renewable energy across US operations and reports a customer NPS above 90. It sells primarily to hyperscale cloud and AI customers rather than retail colocation, and does not name individual tenants publicly.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
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LATAM brand
Data & sources
Web sources
5
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Partnerships
Every company Aligned Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (9)
- Jakob Carnemark Foundersecondary-verified
- Eric Jacobs Chief Commercial Officerreported, not verified
- Michael Morris Chief Development Officerreported, not verified
- Michael Welch Chief Technology Officerreported, not verified
- Billie Haggard Chief Facility Operations Officerreported, not verified
- Ricardo Alário Chief Executive Officer, ODATA (LATAM)reported, not verified
- Meghan Baivier Chief Financial Officerreported, not verified
- Anubhav Raj Chief Investment Officerreported, not verified
- Andrew Schaap CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Jakob Carnemarkno longer at company
previously at Aligned
Safety record
No incidents on record for Aligned Data Centers.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Aligned Data Centers on the data-center map
Every verified data center Aligned Data Centers operates that has a mapped coordinate (42 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
Aligned Data Centers data centers (42)
- Aligned Conesville Industrial Park CampusConesville · under construction
- Aligned ATL-01Lithia Springs · operating
- Aligned CMH-02Conesville · operating
- Aligned DFW-01Plano · operating
- Aligned DFW-01Plano · operating
- Aligned DFW-02Plano · operating
- Aligned DFW-03Mansfield · operating
- Aligned DFW-04Plano · operating
- Aligned IAD-01Ashburn · operating
- Aligned IAD-02Ashburn · operating
- Aligned IAD-03Sterling · operating
- Aligned IAD-04Frederick · operating
- Aligned LBB-01Abernathy · under construction
AI data centers Aligned Data Centers operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
Aligned Data Centers in third-party press
Financial state
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- Lifecycle stage
- early
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- unknown
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Partnerships
3 total · 3 operating · 1 ended
Every company Aligned Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
All 3 partnerships
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 18, 2026
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Sources (5)
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Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-28
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Methodology surface for Aligned Data Centers.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Aligned Data Centers from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
BlackRock, Microsoft, and Nvidia Lead $40B Deal for Aligned Data Centers - TechRepublic
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BlackRock-backed group commits $5 billion for Aligned Data Centers after completing acquisition - Reuters
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Robotics roundup: humanoid, drone, and logistics automation - MarketScale
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Aligned Data Centers Closes on $2.58B Credit Facility - Data Center Knowledge
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New Data Center Developments: March 2026 - Data Center Knowledge
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Data Centers Turn to Robots to Haul Multi-Ton Racks - Data Center Richness | Substack
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How NVIDIA, Microsoft, Musk’s xAI, and BlackRock Are Driving the Next Wave of AI: $60 Billion in Mega Deals Explained - CarbonCredits.com
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$6.5 million for the development of underwater drones. UA1 invested in Y Combinator alumni Albacore - en.ain.ua
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Starship Technologies raises $50M from Plural VC to expand in US - en.ain.ua
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BlackRock invests $40 billion in one of the largest data center operators - en.ain.ua
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Macquarie confident in AI, data centre future after $40 billion Aligned sale - Reuters
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Groups including BlackRock, Microsoft, Nvidia, and xAI join forces to acquire Aligned Data Centers — $40B deal delivers 5GW of operational and planned data center capacity - Tom's Hardware
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/aligned-data-centers.md
- RSS feed: /companies/aligned-data-centers/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/725e4223-b7d1-44f4-a183-e0b0e7cad7bf
- Revision history: /companies/aligned-data-centers/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious56/100
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Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Aligned Data Centers against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
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Analysis
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Last computed: Oct 2, 2026