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
Status
Type
Founded
Ownership
Portfolio pipeline
Geographic footprint
Marquee US project
Marquee EU project
Product mix
Recent expansion
Public listingsee public companies →
Data & sources
Web sources
3
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Prime Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Lambda1× joint
- 2Macquarie Capital1× joint
Most recent
Relationships
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.
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 →
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)
- AUS01-01Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-02Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-03Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-04Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-05Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-06Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-07Lockhart · planned
- AUS01-08Lockhart · planned
- Prime DFW04 (Fort Worth Campus)Fort Worth · under construction
- Prime Data Centers AustinAustin · operating
- Prime Data Centers DallasDallas · operating
- Prime Data Centers Elk Grove Village CampusElk Grove Village · planned
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
Former employees sue Prime Data Centers for $400m, claim compensation fraud - Data Center Dynamics
What is (and isn’t) happening with data centers in the Sacramento region - Abridged – PBS KVIE
Santander CIB Acts as Sole Bookrunner on Prime Data Centers’ Inaugural $900 Million Notes Offering for Its Chicago Campus - Capital-Riesgo.es - Capital Riesgo
Financial state
- 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 Prime Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Lambda1× joint
- 2Macquarie Capital1× joint
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Prime Data Centers x LambdawithLambdadeployment—operating
- Prime Data Centers x Macquarie CapitalwithMacquarie Capitalinvestment—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 Prime Data Centers.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Prime Data Centers from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Former employees sue Prime Data Centers for $400m, claim compensation fraud - Data Center Dynamics
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What is (and isn’t) happening with data centers in the Sacramento region - Abridged – PBS KVIE
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Santander CIB Acts as Sole Bookrunner on Prime Data Centers’ Inaugural $900 Million Notes Offering for Its Chicago Campus - Capital-Riesgo.es - Capital Riesgo
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Prime Data Centers Breaks Ground on Three Buildings in Phoenix, Advancing $3B Investment - Construction Equipment Guide
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AI data center infrastructure drives Pennsylvania energy expansion - eeNews Europe
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Major Pennsylvania gas infrastructure project to be developed in northern tier - Pennsylvania Business Report -
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Prime Data Centers uses closed-loop air and liquid cooling to earn Energy Star certifications - Facilities Dive
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Southern California’s unlikely AI mecca is this very industrial city - Los Angeles Times
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Prime Data Centers and Lambda Partner to Power the Next Era of Superintelligence with AI-Optimized Infrastructure in Southern California - PR Newswire
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Caldwell County greenlights manufacturing company town - therealdeal.com
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Prime Data Centers Announces Plans for 40MW Madrid Data Center - The AI Journal
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Prime Data Centers names Kristen Bejarano Vice President of Construction - Data Center Dynamics
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/prime-data-centers.md
- RSS feed: /companies/prime-data-centers/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6337fb1f-7e92-4821-baa5-349945d59a55
- Revision history: /companies/prime-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 Prime Data Centers against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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 3, 2026