DartPoints, a Dallas-based regional provider of colocation, cloud, and interconnection solutions, has acquired a data center campus in Lexington, Kentucky, the company announced on May 27, 2026.

The acquisition adds a large-scale brownfield platform to DartPoints' portfolio as the company moves to capture growing demand from AI, hyperscale, neo-cloud, and enterprise customers.

Campus Scale and Existing Infrastructure

The Lexington campus spans approximately 343,000 square feet across 29.5 acres and includes roughly 81,000 square feet of existing raised-floor data center space.

The property is fully zoned for data center use, removing a common early-stage development hurdle that typically adds months to project timelines.

A key feature of the site is an owned on-site substation, which DartPoints described as providing a strong foundation for phased redevelopment and future capacity growth.

The presence of existing data center infrastructure, combined with the substation, gives DartPoints a faster path to market compared to a typical greenfield project, according to the company.

DartPoints is also working with Kentucky Utilities, LG&E, and local economic development stakeholders, which the company said further accelerates its readiness timeline. Additional planning and redevelopment work is underway, with aggressive ready-for-service dates being finalized.

Power and Capacity Plans

Current planning provides a path to approximately 20 to 30 megawatts in an initial phase, with longer-term expansion potential reaching 70 megawatts.

That scale positions the campus among the larger facilities in DartPoints' regional footprint and reflects the heavier power demands associated with modern AI and hyperscale deployments.

The facility is being developed to support dense next-generation environments with up to 200 kilowatts per rack and 415-volt power distribution.

The cooling architecture is designed to handle both traditional air-cooled environments and direct-to-chip liquid cooling, using closed-loop, low-water-use heat rejection systems.

That combination of high-density power and advanced cooling addresses the technical requirements of inference AI, enterprise AI, and other compute-intensive workloads.

Strategic Positioning Between Major Markets

Lexington's geographic location was cited by DartPoints as an important factor in the acquisition decision. The campus sits between major connectivity markets, including Ashburn, Virginia; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia.

DartPoints said this positioning will give customers access to rich connectivity and peering support for data-intensive workloads that require low-latency links to those established hubs.

The site is intended to serve a broad mix of customer types, including hyperscale operators, neo-cloud providers, and enterprise organizations deploying AI infrastructure.

DartPoints specifically identified inference AI deployments and larger-scale neo-cloud and hyperscale opportunities as target use cases for the campus.

Leadership Comment on the Acquisition

Scott Willis, president and CEO of DartPoints, said the Lexington site offers a combination of characteristics that are difficult to find together in a single location.

"Lexington gives us a rare combination of existing infrastructure, a supportive power environment, and the ability to scale in a meaningful way," Willis said.

"As AI, neo-cloud, and hyperscale demand continue to reshape the market, customers need sites that can support larger power footprints, denser deployments, and long-term growth.

Lexington gives us that platform."

Willis's comments reflect a broader industry dynamic in which data center operators are competing to secure sites with adequate power capacity as electricity-hungry AI workloads drive unprecedented infrastructure investment across the sector.

DartPoints Company Background

DartPoints describes itself as a leading provider of high-performance enterprise colocation, cloud, and managed service solutions.

The company has been listed on the Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. Its services are designed to support advanced workloads, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.

DartPoints is backed by NOVA Infrastructure, a value-added middle market infrastructure investment firm founded in 2018 and focused on North America. NOVA targets investments across environmental services, transportation, energy, energy transition, and digital sectors.

Brownfield Advantage in a Competitive Market

The acquisition highlights a strategy increasingly common among data center operators: acquiring existing infrastructure rather than building entirely from scratch.

Brownfield sites with functioning substations, existing raised-floor space, and established zoning can shave significant time off development cycles at a moment when customer demand for capacity is outpacing supply in many markets.

The Lexington campus's owned substation is particularly notable in that context.

Utility interconnection and substation construction have become some of the longest lead-time elements in data center development, and sites that arrive with that infrastructure already in place carry a meaningful competitive advantage for operators trying to meet near-term customer commitments.

DartPoints said the Lexington site is expected to play an important role in the company's broader growth strategy as it expands its ability to serve larger, more power-intensive customer requirements.