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H5 Data Centers

H5 Data Centers is a privately held US wholesale and colocation operator headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, founded in 2010.

Founded
2010
HQ
Denver, Colorado, USA
Status
private

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

OFF-AXIS — data center colocation / managed services, not a physical AI system maker, operator, or regulator

Headquarters

Englewood, Colorado

Founded

2010

Portfolio footprint

4M+ sq ft across ~28 data centers in ~24 US markets

Ownership

Privately held

Service mix

Wholesale, colocation, build-to-suit, edge; Tier III designs

Chicago expansion

18 MW initial phase, 36 MW total planned for 2H 2027

Central Washington acquisition

692,000+ sq ft wholesale facilities

365 Data Centers acquisition

Acquired Tampa, Nashville, and Buffalo sites from 365 Data Centers

Customer profile

Fortune 500 enterprises and mission-critical workloads

Denver footprint origin

Bought 300,000 sq ft Denver Tech Center facility in 2014

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.

2 total2 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1AWS1× joint976 total
  2. 2NVIDIA1× joint1112 total

Most recent

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.

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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)

AI data centers H5 Data Centers operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.