Employees
500
Overview
T5 Data Centers is an Atlanta-based data center developer, general contractor, and operator founded in 2008 by Pete Marin, who conceived the business while at real estate services firm The Staubach Company. The company sits at an unusual intersection of the industry: rather than only owning and leasing capacity like a wholesale operator, T5 runs three integrated arms covering development and ownership (T5 Properties), turnkey construction, and ongoing operations of live, energized data halls (T5 Services).
That vertical stack lets T5 both build for its own portfolio and serve as a general contractor and facilities operator for third-party owners and hyperscale tenants.\n\nT5 reports more than 3 GW of managed capacity, 4 million square feet of data center space developed, 22 data centers built out, and licensure as a general contractor across 48 U.S. states. Its core owned-and-operated campuses cluster in Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte, Chicago (Elk Grove Village), Portland (Hillsboro), and Kings Mountain, North Carolina, with additional development activity in Phoenix, Northern Virginia, and Texas markets tied to hyperscale demand.\n\nOwnership sits with Canadian pension real estate investor QuadReal Property Group, which acquired a majority stake in T5 in 2022 and has since underwritten the company's expansion into AI-training-oriented campuses.
T5's customer base has historically skewed toward large enterprise and hyperscale users, and the QuadReal-backed build pipeline has been oriented around powered-shell and turnkey capacity for that segment.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Headquarters
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Safety EMR
Public listing status
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Partnerships
Every company T5 Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Current leadership (5)
- Peter Almond Chief Investment Officer and President, T5 Propertiesreported, not verified
- Jimmy Bailey Chief Development Officer (co-founder)reported, not verified
- Karen Stein Chief Administration Officer and General Counselreported, not verified
- Tom Mertz Chief Operating Officer and President, T5 Servicesreported, not verified
- Pete Marin Chief Executive Officer and Chairman (founder)reported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for T5 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 →
T5 Data Centers on the data-center map
Every verified data center T5 Data Centers operates that has a mapped coordinate (23 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.
T5 Data Centers data centers (23)
- Project PegasusPalmetto · announced
- T5 ATL IV CampusNewnan · planned
- T5 CHI V Elk Grove VillageElk Grove Village · planned
- T5 Chantilly Fuel-Cell Data Center (Stonecroft Blvd & Lee Rd)Chantilly · planned
- T5 Chicago IV GrayslakeGrayslake · planned
- T5 Inver Grove Heights Data Center (Travel Tags site)Inver Grove Heights · planned
- T5 Kings MountainKings Mountain · operating
- T5 Nampa, IdahoNampa · operating
- T5@AtlantaAtlanta · operating
- T5@Atlanta III CampusLithia Springs · operating
- T5@ChicagoElk Grove Village · operating
- T5@LAEl Segundo · operating
AI data centers T5 Data Centers operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.
Recent coverage
T5 Data Centers in third-party press
KEEL Panther Creek AI Power Campus Site Analysis - Northwise
Karis Critical’s scaled-back Naperville data center heads to council vote amid zoning, power concerns - The Real Deal
Experts differ on the future for Grayslake-like data centers: ‘We haven’t figured out how to use it yet’ - Chicago Tribune
Financial state
- Employees
- 500as of 2026-08-01(Company website self-reported team size ("500+ team members"))
- 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 T5 Data Centers has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- t5-data-centers x awswithAWS976technology—operating
- t5-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 T5 Data Centers.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning T5 Data Centers from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
KEEL Panther Creek AI Power Campus Site Analysis - Northwise
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Karis Critical’s scaled-back Naperville data center heads to council vote amid zoning, power concerns - The Real Deal
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Experts differ on the future for Grayslake-like data centers: ‘We haven’t figured out how to use it yet’ - Chicago Tribune
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BITF vs. RZLV: Which High-Risk Tech Stock Should You Bet On? - TradingView
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Nampa approves converting a building to a data center - BoiseDev
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Sam Altman-backed startup launches renewable energy service for data centres - capacityglobal.com
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Robbie Sovie – T5 Data Centers - Blueprint Magazine
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Cato Joins Infrastructure Masons Climate Accord to Help Data Centers Achieve Carbon Neutrality - PR Newswire Canada
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T5 Data Centers Appoints New Chief Financial Officer - PR Newswire
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Microsoft Sets Sights On Elk Grove Technology Park - Journal & Topics
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/t5-data-centers.md
- RSS feed: /companies/t5-data-centers/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/6c109ff8-73e9-4bb8-88fc-4cb2aad3b10d
- Revision history: /companies/t5-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 T5 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