Custom Data Centers Built for Growth

Build for Innovation, Build for Advantage

The digital economy is built on infrastructure. Every online transaction, financial trade, streamed video, and AI computation relies on facilities engineered to handle massive data volumes securely, reliably, and efficiently. While colocation and cloud provide flexible options, more organizations and investors are realizing that renting someone else's capacity is not enough. They want control. They want precision. They want resilience.

That's where build-to-suit and greenfield data center developments transform strategy into reality. By designing and building your own facility, you gain the ability to align every element—location, power capacity, cooling technology, fiber connectivity, and security—with your long-term business vision. The result is more than a building. It's a mission-critical asset designed for competitive advantage, investment resilience, and the future of digital transformation.

Greenfield projects, in particular, unlock maximum flexibility. With a blank canvas, enterprises and investors can create facilities optimized for today's workloads while anticipating tomorrow's requirements in AI, high-performance computing, and edge connectivity. Purpose-built campuses don't just meet demand—they scale with it, evolving into long-term digital ecosystems.

Why Custom Development Matters

Building a custom facility is not just about increasing IT capacity—it's about control, scalability, and long-term value. Organizations that choose to build understand that digital infrastructure is no longer a commodity; it is a competitive differentiator.

• Enterprises gain facilities designed to support mission-critical workloads with no compromises on compliance or performance.
• Hyperscalers secure scalable campuses engineered to handle dense AI and GPU-powered operations.
• Investors capture digital infrastructure assets that deliver long-term ROI with pre-committed anchor tenants.

Custom builds eliminate the limitations of shared environments. Instead of reshaping business operations to fit a colocation model, you design infrastructure to reflect your exact needs. That alignment translates into efficiency, tenant satisfaction, and stronger financial performance.

Greenfield Development: Designing Without Compromise

Greenfield data centers offer unmatched opportunities for innovation. Starting with raw land, developers, enterprises, and investors decide everything—from utility access and fiber routes to sustainability integration and master campus planning.

Key advantages of greenfield builds include:

• Optimized Site Selection: Proximity to renewable energy, fiber-rich corridors, and enterprise hubs ensures long-term value.
• Sustainability by Design: Integration of solar, wind, and advanced cooling technologies from the outset creates facilities aligned with ESG mandates.
• Scalability: Campuses can expand from tens of megawatts to hundreds, supporting hyperscale demand for decades.

Unlike retrofits or conversions, greenfield facilities have no inherited constraints. Every system—power, cooling, fiber, and security—is engineered from the ground up for resilience and performance. For investors, greenfield projects also offer the ability to establish new digital corridors near subsea cable landings, energy hubs, or emerging global markets.

Build-to-Suit: Precision Infrastructure for Demanding Workloads

While greenfield provides ultimate flexibility, build-to-suit facilities combine customization with efficiency. These projects are developed for a specific tenant, ensuring the design aligns with compliance, workload density, and long-term scalability.

Enterprises and hyperscalers choose build-to-suit when they require:

• Regulatory Alignment: Facilities that meet HIPAA, PCI, or defense compliance mandates.
• Performance Optimization: Low-latency, mission-critical environments designed for trading platforms, healthcare applications, or AI workloads.
• Guaranteed Scalability: Phased build-outs that expand seamlessly as workloads grow.

For investors, build-to-suit projects reduce risk by securing long-term leases before construction begins. This model balances customization with predictability, making it a preferred strategy in industries where uptime and compliance are non-negotiable.

The Data Center Build Process: From Vision to Operation

Building a data center is a multi-phase journey, but with the right roadmap, it becomes a measured, predictable process:

• 1. Site Selection — Power availability, fiber diversity, land zoning, and environmental risks define site viability. Strategic hubs like Ashburn, Phoenix, and Dallas dominate, but Tier 2 and edge markets are rising.
• 2. Design & Engineering — Architects and engineers translate business requirements into resilient, efficient technical blueprints.
• 3. Construction & Development — Coordinated delivery with utilities, contractors, and regulators ensures budgets and timelines stay intact.
• 4. Commissioning & Testing — Rigorous validation of power, cooling, and network systems ensures compliance and reliability.
• 5. Operations & Lifecycle Management — Once live, monitoring, upgrades, and preventive maintenance sustain long-term performance.

With the right expertise and partners, enterprises and investors transform a complex undertaking into a strategic advantage.

Land Utilization: The Foundation of Every Build

Every build begins with land. Whether repurposing existing assets or acquiring new parcels, land strategy defines long-term viability:

• Building on Existing Property: Faster timelines, reduced costs, and strategic reuse of underutilized assets.
• Acquiring New Land: Access to fiber corridors, high-capacity substations, and expandable parcels for multi-phase campuses.

The land decision determines scalability, risk exposure, and ROI. It is the most critical first step in the build journey.

Strategic Partners: From Blueprint to Operation

Data center builds involve multiple disciplines—real estate, engineering, finance, operations, and sustainability. Success depends on aligning the right partners, including:

• Advisory specialists for site selection and incentives.
• Engineers and architects for resilient designs.
• Contractors and developers for on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Operators for lifecycle management and tenant services.
• Financing partners to structure capital efficiently.
• Sustainability consultants to integrate renewable energy and carbon-neutral practices.

At Data Center Real Estate, we orchestrate these relationships to deliver seamless, end-to-end build execution.

Build for Advantage: Why Timing Matters

The demand curve for digital infrastructure is climbing rapidly, driven by AI workloads, edge computing, 5G adoption, and global cloud expansion. Existing facilities, no matter how advanced, often struggle to keep pace with these intensifying requirements. For enterprises and investors, the decision to build now is not just about capacity—it's about securing long-term competitiveness in a market where demand consistently outpaces supply.

Building today ensures organizations can:

• Accommodate Higher Rack Densities: GPU-heavy and AI-driven workloads require liquid cooling, advanced power systems, and designs that traditional facilities often cannot retrofit effectively.
• Align With ESG and Compliance Standards: New mandates around carbon-neutral operations, renewable sourcing, and water conservation are rapidly becoming requirements, not options.
• Expand Into High-Growth Corridors: Emerging markets and underserved metros are seeing demand spikes for edge, hyperscale, and enterprise colocation deployments. Early movers secure stronger incentives, lower land costs, and long-term tenant interest.
• Gain Strategic Advantage in Hyperscale Projects: Hyperscalers prioritize partners who can deliver capacity quickly and at scale. Building today ensures readiness when large tenants make procurement decisions.

In this environment, timing is a decisive factor. Enterprises that wait risk retrofits, higher costs, and missed opportunities, while those who build position themselves as leaders in digital infrastructure—setting the standard in performance, sustainability, and resilience.

Build vs. Lease: Which Path Is Right for You?

Leasing colocation space is often faster and less capital-intensive, but building delivers control, ownership, and long-term strategic value.

• Leasing = speed, flexibility, and lower upfront costs.
• Building = dedicated capacity, full compliance, scalability, and asset ownership.

For enterprises with predictable workloads, high compliance needs, or massive growth forecasts, building provides advantages that leasing cannot match.

Why Choose Data Center Real Estate for Your Build?

We simplify complexity and accelerate success. With our expertise, clients gain:

• Tailored Strategy aligned with business and technical goals.
• Market Intelligence on Tier 1 hubs and emerging edge markets.
• Trusted Partnerships across engineering, construction, and operations.
• Future-Ready Design optimized for AI, edge, sustainability, and hyperscale.

We don't just help you build a facility—we help you build a strategic digital asset designed to last.

Build Bold, Secure Tomorrow

Constructing a data center isn't simply about concrete, steel, and servers—it's about shaping the digital backbone of the future. Every decision you make today defines the resilience, scalability, and competitiveness of your business tomorrow. Organizations that build aren't just keeping pace with the digital economy—they are setting its direction.

Let's Build What's Next

At Data Center Real Estate, we partner with enterprises, hyperscalers, and investors to transform vision into infrastructure. From site selection to commissioning, our expertise ensures your facility is not only operational but strategically positioned for decades of growth. Together, we'll create a build that stands as a long-term asset—future-ready, resilient, and built for advantage.

Start Your Build Today — Let's design and deliver a facility that goes beyond capacity to create true digital infrastructure leadership.