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Vantage Data Centers

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Vantage Data Centers is a Santa Clara, California based wholesale colocation operator that builds and runs hyperscale campuses for cloud and AI training…

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HQ
Undisclosed
Status
private

Employees

1.5k

Overview

Vantage Data Centers is a Santa Clara, California based wholesale colocation operator that builds and runs hyperscale campuses for cloud and AI training tenants. Founded in 2010 with a single Silicon Valley site, it has grown into a global platform of roughly three dozen data centers across North America, EMEA and APAC, with active operations in the United States, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan.\n\nThe company is privately held by a consortium led by DigitalBridge Group, alongside Silver Lake, AustralianSuper, PSP Investments, GIC and ADIA.

That sponsor base has funded a shift from mid sized enterprise halls to gigawatt scale AI campuses: Vantage is one of the wholesale landlords behind the Oracle and OpenAI Stargate build out in Port Washington, Wisconsin, and in 2026 announced a UK AI Growth Zone deployment in South Wales with Nebius as the anchor tenant.\n\nUnlike REIT peers such as Digital Realty or Equinix, Vantage does not trade publicly. Its playbook is large single tenant leases to hyperscalers and AI labs rather than retail interconnection, and its footprint is concentrated in a small number of very large campuses (Santa Clara, Ashburn, Quincy, Phoenix, Port Washington, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cardiff, Zurich, Johannesburg, Sydney, Osaka) rather than a dense metro fabric.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California

Status

private

Type

brain

Founded

2010

Parent / ownership

Privately held by a consortium led by DigitalBridge Group, with Silver Lake, AustralianSuper, PSP Investments, GIC and ADIA

Geographic footprint

~35 data centers across North America, EMEA and APAC; 14 countries including US, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, UK, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan

Business model

Wholesale hyperscale colocation; large single-tenant leases to cloud providers and AI labs rather than retail interconnection

Marquee AI project

Port Washington, Wisconsin campus supporting the Oracle / OpenAI Stargate build; community-investment announcements confirm Vantage as landlord

Latest tenant win

August 2026: expanded UK AI infrastructure partnership with Nebius, first deployment inside the South Wales AI Growth Zone

CEO

Sureel Choksi, President and Chief Executive Officer

Public listing status

Private; no exchange listing. Owned by DigitalBridge-led consortium

San Antonio Clean Air Act lawsuit (Sep 2026)

Reported Sep 21 2026: Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Public Citizen sued Vantage Data Centers and VoltaGrid in federal court over two San Antonio AI data center campuses with dedicated behind-the-meter gas plants (plaintiffs cite ~405 MW gas generation, enough for ~1/5 of San Antonio homes, plus 151 diesel backup generators / ~455 MW). Suit alleges use of Texas minor-source fast-track permits instead of major-source Clean Air Act permits with best available controls and public participation. Complaint seeks halt until proper permitting; not a court judgment

Data & sources

Web sources

6

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Partnerships

Every company Vantage 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

AAWSTechnology partnerNNVIDIATechnology partner

Current leadership (7)

  • David Howson President, EMEAreported, not verified
  • Sureel Choksi President and Chief Executive Officerreported, not verified
  • Scott Beasley Chief Financial Officer, Globalreported, not verified
  • Jeff Tench Executive Vice President, Globalreported, not verified
  • Dana Adams President, North Americareported, not verified
  • Jeremy Deutsch President, APACreported, not verified
  • Michael Stoner Chief Development Officer, North America (appointed June 2026)reported, not verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for Vantage 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 →

Vantage Data Centers on the data-center map

Every verified data center Vantage Data Centers operates that has a mapped coordinate (51 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

Vantage Data Centers data centers (51)

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

Recent coverage

Vantage Data Centers in third-party press

Vantage explores $100B IPO as four data center operators line up listings

Aug 13, 2026

OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage Data Centers Announce Stargate Data Center Site in Wisconsin

Oct 22, 2025

Vantage Data Centers Completes $9.2 Billion Equity Investment Led by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake

Jun 13, 2024