PowerHouse Data Centers
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PowerHouse Data Centers is a real estate developer and owner of hyperscale data center campuses across the United States, wholly owned by American Real Estate Partners (AREP), rather than a company that sells rack space or cloud capacity directly to end users. Its model centers on acquiring land, securing power, and delivering “powered shell” and full turnkey buildings that hyperscale cloud and AI customers lease in their entirety — its flagship Ashburn, Virginia building (ABX-1) was leased whole to CyrusOne on a 30-year term. Founded in 2021-2022 with its roots in Northern Virginia’s “Data Center Alley,” PowerHouse has since expanded into North Carolina, Kentucky, Nevada, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, with company materials citing anywhere from about 86 to 140 buildings underway, in planning, or completed and roughly 6-10 GW of power across its pipeline depending on the date of the source — these figures have shifted quickly and materially across the company’s own press releases within just the past year or two, which is worth flagging as a genuine inconsistency rather than a single fixed fact. It frequently partners with capital providers such as Harrison Street and Blue Owl and with regional players like Chirisa Technology Parks, Pennsylvania Data Center Partners, and Hillwood Investment Properties on individual campuses.
Because PowerHouse builds and leases entire buildings to single hyperscale tenants rather than selling multi-tenant rack or cage space, it sits closer to a data center real estate developer/wholesale landlord than a traditional colocation or cloud provider, though its business is closest in nature to wholesale colocation-style leasing.
PowerHouse Data Centers has a confirmed data center presence at the following locations:
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PowerHouse Data Centers Data Center Locations
- Joliet, Illinois, USA Joliet Technology Center PENDING REVIEW
The Joliet Technology Center is described as a roughly $20 billion data center campus spearheaded by PowerHouse together with Hillwood Investment Properties. - Louisville, Kentucky, USA PowerHouse Louisville PENDING REVIEW
PowerHouse Louisville is described by industry press as the first hyperscale data center development in Kentucky. - Reno, Nevada, USA PowerHouse Reno PENDING REVIEW
Reno was PowerHouse's first campus outside Northern Virginia, marking its national expansion, and was planned as a three-building, roughly 900,000 SF powered shell campus developed with Harrison Street. - Charlotte, North Carolina, USA PowerHouse CharlotteAI DATA CENTER PENDING REVIEW
Sitting on a 122-acre site along University City Boulevard, the Charlotte campus was in the permitting phase as of January 2025 and is positioned as PowerHouse's entry into the Southeast U.S. market, near a Duke Energy substation with potential for up to 2.5 million sq ft of space. - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA Pennsylvania Digital I (PAX-1) PENDING REVIEW
PAX-1 is a joint venture with Pennsylvania Data Center Partners announced in July 2025 to build a next-generation 1.35 GW hyperscale data center campus. - Grand Prairie, Texas, USA Grand Prairie Mega Campus PENDING REVIEW
The Grand Prairie Mega Campus is planned as a roughly 1.8 GW development, one of the largest in PowerHouse's pipeline. - Irving, Texas, USA PowerHouse Irving PENDING REVIEW
PowerHouse topped out the first building at its nearly one-million-square-foot Irving campus, marking its entry into the Dallas-Fort Worth market, the second-largest U.S. data center market. - Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA PowerHouse 95 PENDING REVIEW
PowerHouse 95 sits on 145 acres along the I-95 corridor and is planned to reach up to 800MW across three substations, developed as a joint venture with Harrison Street. - Chester, Virginia, USA PowerHouse CTP Richmond (Meadowville) PENDING REVIEW
PowerHouse and Chirisa are constructing a 139,000-square-foot data center on Meadowville Technology Parkway as part of a planned 14-building campus developed in four stages, with the first building expected operational by October 2026 in partnership with Poe Companies. - Ashburn, Virginia, USA PowerHouse ABX-1 PENDING REVIEW
ABX-1 won the NVTC's Best Construction Project award and was leased in its entirety to CyrusOne on a 30-year term shortly after completion. - Arcola, Virginia, USA PowerHouse Arcola PENDING REVIEW
PowerHouse announced a hyperscale lease at Arcola in January 2026, marking a milestone for a campus planned to include two two-story buildings and 12 data halls across roughly 614,300 sq ft on 23 acres. - Sterling, Virginia, USA PENDING REVIEW
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AI Data Centers
PowerHouse doesn't market itself primarily as an AI-specialist builder, but at least one campus has explicit AI framing: its Charlotte, North Carolina site is described by the company as incorporating advanced cooling systems and infrastructure specifically tailored for AI-driven workloads, alongside hyperscale, fintech, and hybrid cloud use. Several other campuses (Spotsylvania's PowerHouse 95, the Reno campus) are described in press coverage as serving demand driven by "high-powered computing, AI, and other advancements," though without the same level of facility-specific technical detail as Charlotte.
- Charlotte, USA PowerHouse Charlotte AI DATA CENTER PENDING REVIEW
Sitting on a 122-acre site along University City Boulevard, the Charlotte campus was in the permitting phase as of January 2025 and is positioned as PowerHouse's entry into the Southeast U.S. market, near a Duke Energy substation with potential for up to 2.5 million sq ft of space.
Common Questions
What does PowerHouse Data Centers actually sell to customers?
PowerHouse develops and owns land and buildings, then delivers powered shell or full turnkey data center buildings that it leases in their entirety to hyperscale cloud, AI, and enterprise customers — for example, its ABX-1 building in Ashburn, Virginia was leased whole to CyrusOne on a 30-year term rather than being sold as multi-tenant colocation space.
In which U.S. markets does PowerHouse Data Centers have facilities?
As of 2026, PowerHouse's campuses and announced projects span Northern Virginia (Ashburn, Arcola, Sterling, Spotsylvania, and the Richmond/Meadowville area), Charlotte, North Carolina, Louisville, Kentucky, Reno, Nevada, the Dallas-Fort Worth area (Irving and Grand Prairie), Texas, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Joliet, Illinois.
Does PowerHouse Data Centers build AI-specific infrastructure?
Its Charlotte, North Carolina campus is explicitly described by the company as incorporating advanced cooling systems and infrastructure tailored for AI-driven workloads, alongside hyperscale and fintech use cases, though this AI-specific framing has not been documented to the same degree at all of its other sites.
Who owns PowerHouse Data Centers?
PowerHouse Data Centers is wholly owned and operated by American Real Estate Partners (AREP), an institutional real estate fund manager, with Doug Fleit serving as PowerHouse's CEO and co-founder of AREP.
How big is PowerHouse's total development pipeline?
PowerHouse's own materials have cited different totals at different points — for example 86 buildings and 5.9 GW in early 2025 versus around 118-140 buildings and roughly 8-10 GW in later company pages — indicating a rapidly growing but inconsistently reported pipeline rather than one fixed figure.
Does PowerHouse Data Centers offer colocation services?
Yes — we've identified 12 facilities where PowerHouse Data Centers may offer colocation services. Please contact PowerHouse Data Centers directly to confirm current availability and terms.
Does PowerHouse Data Centers offer cloud services?
We haven't confirmed cloud services for PowerHouse Data Centers yet — this isn't a definitive no, since our research can miss things. Please contact PowerHouse Data Centers directly to confirm cloud availability.
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