H5 Data Centers x AWS

H5 Data Centers is a privately held US wholesale and colocation operator headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, founded in 2010. It has grown by acquisition into one of the largest privately owned national data center platforms, with more than four million square feet across roughly two dozen US markets and a fleet of about twenty-eight facilities, from Ashburn and Atlanta to Denver, Phoenix, Cleveland, and San Jose.\n\nThe company's playbook is buying older enterprise-scale buildings (often single-tenant campuses divested by Fortune 500 owners) and repositioning them for multi-tenant colocation, wholesale, and build-to-suit customers. Recent moves include acquiring three sites from 365 Data Centers (Tampa, Nashville, Buffalo), taking on a 692,000-square-foot Central Washington wholesale portfolio, and pushing a new Chicago campus toward 36 MW by the second half of 2027.\n\nH5 is not a hyperscale developer in the mold of QTS or Vantage, but it competes for enterprise and Fortune 500 mission-critical workloads on a national footprint and increasingly courts AI and cloud-adjacent tenants as its wholesale suites expand.

[Amazon web services](/companies/amazon-web-services) (AWS) is the cloud computing division of Amazon, providing on-demand cloud platforms including compute, storage, database, and AI/ML services. AWS powers infrastructure for autonomous vehicle simulation, robotics development, and AI training workloads.