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T5 Data Centers

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…

HQ
Undisclosed
Status
private

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

Atlanta, Georgia (US)

Status

private

Type

brain

Founded

2008 by Pete Marin

Portfolio capacity

3 GW+ managed capacity across 22 developed data centers, 4M sq ft

Parent company

QuadReal Property Group (majority owner since 2022)

Business model

Vertically integrated: T5 Properties (development/ownership) plus T5 Services (construction and operations)

Employees

500+ across the data center sector

Geographic footprint

Owned campuses in Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte, Kings Mountain NC, Chicago (Elk Grove), Portland (Hillsboro); licensed GC in 48 states

Certifications

ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS

Safety EMR

0.59 Experience Modification Rate (self-reported)

Public listing status

Private; majority-owned by QuadReal (institutional pension-fund real estate)

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.

2 total2 operating

Most-frequent partners

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

Most recent

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.

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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)

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