Defendant
1 case as defendant.
Company overview. DataBank Holdings, Ltd. ("DataBank") is a privately held U.S. data center operator headquartered at 400 South Akard Street, Dallas, Texas, founded in 2005 by Jerry Blair and Patrick Guadalajara. It is controlled by DigitalBridge Group (NYSE: DBRG), which became control investor in 2016 and appoints a majority of the board; DigitalBridge's stake was reduced to 7.8% in early 2025. AustralianSuper led a $2.0B equity round in October 2024 and holds a significant minority position, with Swiss Life Asset Managers among other investors. DataBank does not disclose valuation or detailed financials publicly; press reporting describes revenue scaling from roughly $50M to above $1B and headcount reaching about 1,000 employees in 2025.
Products / services / operations. DataBank is the largest edge data center operator in the U.S., offering enterprise-class colocation, interconnection, managed cloud, bare-metal/hosting, network and connectivity, remote-hands and security services. Its portfolio comprises 65+ data centers (reported as ~70 in 2026) across 26–27+ markets, with 20 interconnection hubs and cloud on-ramps. It is building large hyperscale/AI-oriented campuses, including Red Oak (south Dallas, 480 MW planned), Culpeper, Virginia (192 MW) and Atlanta (120 MW). It is an operating company, not a patent licensor.
Patent-litigation posture. The tracked record shows a single case, with DataBank as defendant and zero plaintiff-side filings — the classic profile of an operating company defending against an assertion, not an NPE. The suit, Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al. v. DataBank Holdings, Ltd., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, a plaintiff-friendly venue frequently selected by patent asserters.
Notable cases / context. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. is a Dublin, Ireland-based non-practicing entity backed by patent monetization platform Key Patent Innovations; it holds a large tranche of patents originating with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and has asserted them in parallel campaigns against cloud, data center, storage and open-source users (e.g., TierPoint, Evoque, Lumen, FedEx, NetApp, Starbucks, SAP). Reporting by Unified Patents and IAM Media characterizes Valtrus and affiliated entities as high-volume NPE filers, with dozens of district court and PTAB actions. No merits determination is reflected in the tracked data.
Lead case in the TierPoint/DataBank pair; narrative says it is part of the same asserted portfolio and was maintained open after the TierPoint member case closed, but the DataBank-specific '179 claim status is not confirmed.