Element Critical
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Element Critical is a U.S. colocation operator that owns and leases retail and wholesale data-center space to enterprise, hyperscale, AI, and neo-cloud tenants, rather than selling any cloud or managed-compute product of its own. As of late 2025, the company’s own materials describe an active portfolio centered on Chicago (Wood Dale, IL), Austin, and Houston (Katy, TX) metros, with a Northern Virginia (Vienna) facility it built its early growth on having been sold to Serverfarm around October 2025 and a Silicon Valley (Sunnyvale) facility that appears in third-party directories but has dropped out of the company’s own recent location lists. Its most notable current push is at its Houston One campus, where it is adding a 20,000 sq ft, 10MW AI-ready data hall (targeted for partial delivery by Q4 2026) and building a new 60MW “Houston Two” facility with liquid-to-chip, immersion, and air cooling designed explicitly for AI and HPC workloads. Founded in 2013 as CentralColo and rebranded to Element Critical in 2017, the company positions itself as a smaller, customer-focused, solutions-engineering alternative to larger colocation providers, pursuing a buy-and-build strategy in Tier 1 and Tier 2 U.S.
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Element Critical has a confirmed data center presence at the following locations:
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Element Critical Data Center Locations
- Sunnyvale, California, USA Silicon Valley One (SV1) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
This building previously served as a Yahoo and Level 3 data center and was retrofitted to zone 4 seismic code standards before Element Critical (then CentralColo) acquired it in 2015. - Wood Dale, Illinois, USA Chicago One CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
Chicago One and its companion facility Chicago Two are marketed as disaster-recovery resiliency leaders whose power systems have never gone down in 30 years. - Wood Dale, Illinois, USA Chicago Two CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
This building was previously operated as SunGard's Wood Dale (341) facility before Element Critical acquired it in January 2019. - Austin, Texas, USA Austin One PENDING REVIEW
At the time of its 2019 acquisition announcement, the facility already housed more than 60 enterprise customers on its 7-acre campus. - Katy, Texas, USA Houston One TIER II CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
The building is designed to LEED Gold standards with a reinforced FM I-150 concrete roof deck able to withstand hurricane-grade winds up to 190 mph. - Katy, Texas, USA Houston Two CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
Currently under construction as of late 2025, Houston Two is planned as a roughly 150,000 sq ft, 60MW facility built from the ground up for AI and next-generation enterprise workloads. - Vienna, Virginia, USA Northern Virginia One (VA1) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
The facility sits under 500 meters from the former MAE-East Internet Exchange Point, giving it long-standing network legacy and connectivity advantages in the D.C./Northern Virginia corridor.
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Common Questions
Does Element Critical have AI/GPU-optimized data center capacity?
Yes, at its Houston One campus in Katy, Texas, where the company is building a 20,000 sq ft, AI-ready data hall scalable to 10MW (with 4.5MW targeted online by Q4 2026), and developing a separate 60MW "Houston Two" facility engineered with high-density liquid-to-chip, immersion, and air cooling specifically for AI and HPC workloads.
Where does Element Critical currently operate data centers?
The company's own recent press materials and contact page describe active facilities in Wood Dale, Illinois (Chicago One and Chicago Two), Austin, Texas (Austin One), and Katy/Houston, Texas (Houston One, with Houston Two under construction).
Did Element Critical sell any of its data centers?
Industry press reported that Serverfarm purchased Element Critical's VA1 data center property in Vienna, Virginia, in October 2025, a facility Element Critical had originally acquired in 2016/2017.
Is Element Critical's colocation carrier-neutral?
Yes, multiple of its campuses — including Silicon Valley One, Northern Virginia One, Chicago One, and Houston One — are described by the company and industry sources as carrier-neutral, with meet-me rooms and access to multiple fiber and cloud-on-ramp providers.
Does Element Critical offer cloud services?
We haven't confirmed cloud services for Element Critical yet — this isn't a definitive no, since our research can miss things. Please contact Element Critical directly to confirm cloud availability.
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