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Prime Data Centers

Prime Data Centers is a privately held, founder-controlled data center developer and operator headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and founded in 2017 by Nicholas…

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Undisclosed
Status
private

Overview

Prime Data Centers is a privately held, founder-controlled data center developer and operator headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and founded in 2017 by Nicholas Laag. The company builds and runs wholesale colocation and hyperscale-style campuses across North America and EMEA, positioning itself as an "AI-ready" builder focused on rapid delivery of GPU-dense production halls rather than legacy retail colocation.\n\nIts footprint spans 13 campuses and roughly 28 facilities across seven U.S. metros (Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sacramento, Silicon Valley) plus Frankfurt and Madrid, with a stated development pipeline of more than 4 GW.

Recent moves include a 240 MW Avondale, Arizona campus tied to a roughly $3 billion regional program, a second Sacramento build (SMF02), and a planned Esbjerg, Denmark campus starting at 160 MW IT load and scalable to about 550 MW backed by a roughly €2 billion investment.\n\nUnlike sponsor-backed peers such as Aligned or QTS, Prime is majority founder-owned rather than controlled by an infrastructure fund, giving Laag and a small senior team unusual latitude over capital pacing and site selection. Tenants and specific silicon partners are not publicly disclosed, consistent with the wholesale build-to-suit model the company markets to hyperscale and AI-training customers.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Headquarters

Dallas, Texas, USA

Status

private

Type

brain

Founded

Ownership

Privately held, majority founder-owned

Portfolio pipeline

4+ GW development pipeline across 13 campuses / ~28 facilities

Geographic footprint

7 U.S. metros (Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sacramento, Silicon Valley) plus Frankfurt and Madrid

Marquee US project

240 MW Avondale, Arizona campus tied to a ~$3B regional AI-infrastructure program (groundbreaking May 2026)

Marquee EU project

Esbjerg, Denmark campus: 160 MW IT phase one, scalable to ~550 MW, ~€2B investment (announced March 2026)

Product mix

Gigascale, Metro, and Build-to-Suit wholesale colocation aimed at AI/GPU tenants

Recent expansion

Second Sacramento facility SMF02 groundbreaking announced May 2026

Data & sources

Web sources

3

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Partnerships

Every company Prime Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total2 operating

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Lambda1× joint
  2. 2Macquarie Capital1× joint

Most recent

Relationships

LLambdaCustomerMMacquarie CapitalInvestor

Current leadership (6)

  • Nicholas Laag Founder and Chief Executive Officerreported, not verified
  • Ulrich Pelz Chief Financial Officerreported, not verified
  • Donncha O Tuama Chief Legal Officerreported, not verified
  • Michael Wall Executive Vice President, Product Deliveryreported, not verified
  • Gabby Ascione Executive Vice President, Commercial Strategy and Revenuereported, not verified
  • John Bates Executive Vice President, Development and Power (appointed March 2026)reported, not verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Prime Data Centers.

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Prime Data Centers on the data-center map

Every verified data center Prime 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.

Prime Data Centers data centers (42)

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

Recent coverage

Prime Data Centers in third-party press