Employees
282
Overview
H5 Data Centers is a privately held US wholesale and colocation operator headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, founded in 2010. It has grown by acquisition into one of the largest privately owned national data center platforms, with more than four million square feet across roughly two dozen US markets and a fleet of about twenty-eight facilities, from Ashburn and Atlanta to Denver, Phoenix, Cleveland, and San Jose.\n\nThe company's playbook is buying older enterprise-scale buildings (often single-tenant campuses divested by Fortune 500 owners) and repositioning them for multi-tenant colocation, wholesale, and build-to-suit customers.
Recent moves include acquiring three sites from 365 Data Centers (Tampa, Nashville, Buffalo), taking on a 692,000-square-foot Central Washington wholesale portfolio, and pushing a new Chicago campus toward 36 MW by the second half of 2027.\n\nH5 is not a hyperscale developer in the mold of QTS or Vantage, but it competes for enterprise and Fortune 500 mission-critical workloads on a national footprint and increasingly courts AI and cloud-adjacent tenants as its wholesale suites expand.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Axis classification
Headquarters
Founded
Portfolio footprint
Ownership
Service mix
Chicago expansion
Central Washington acquisition
365 Data Centers acquisition
Customer profile
Denver footprint origin
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Partnerships
Every company H5 Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- David Dunn Chief Operating Officerreported, not verified
- Josh Simms Chief Executive Officerreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for H5 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 →
H5 Data Centers on the data-center map
Every verified data center H5 Data Centers operates that has a mapped coordinate (44 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
H5 Data Centers data centers (44)
- H5 AlbuquerqueAlbuquerque · operating
- H5 Albuquerque (505 Marquette)Albuquerque · operating
- H5 AshburnAshburn · operating
- H5 AtlantaAtlanta · operating
- H5 Buffalo ILockport · operating
- H5 Buffalo IILockport · operating
- H5 Buffalo IIIBuffalo · operating
- H5 CharlotteCharlotte · operating
- H5 ChicagoChicago · operating
- H5 Cincinnati ICincinnati · operating
- H5 Cincinnati IICincinnati · operating
- H5 ClevelandCleveland · operating
AI data centers H5 Data Centers operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Financial state
- Employees
- 282as of 2026-08-27(LinkedIn employees listed (self-reported band 51-200))
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company H5 Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- H5 Data Centers x AWSwithAWS976technology—operating
- H5 Data Centers x NVIDIAwithNVIDIA1112technology—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 18, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-27
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-27
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for H5 Data Centers.Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/h5-data-centers.md
- RSS feed: /companies/h5-data-centers/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/a9125a07-39b7-4276-8e4c-9c5a327642e4
- Revision history: /companies/h5-data-centers/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place H5 Data Centers against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026