Prime Data Centers, LLC

I'll research this company before writing the profile.

Let me check the litigation context and Valtrus's NPE status.

Prime Data Centers, LLC (commonly "Prime") is a privately held developer, owner and operator of hyperscale and wholesale data center real estate, founded in 2017 by Nicholas Laag (CEO) and Ulrich Pelz (CFO). Its corporate headquarters is listed at 400 North Ervay Street, Dallas, Texas; some profiles still list an earlier San Francisco base. Prime is not publicly traded. Third-party databases put headcount in the 114–156 range with substantial year-over-year growth, and PitchBook/Crustdata report roughly $900M raised, including a June 2026 debt financing, with backers including Nuveen, Grain Management, Snowhawk, Ares Management and Cerberus Capital Management. Published estimates of portfolio value (~$6B in assets) are unverified.

Prime designs, builds and operates purpose-built and build-to-suit data center campuses for hyperscale, cloud and AI/HPC tenants, offering powered-shell, build-to-suit and turnkey delivery plus wholesale colocation. The company's own materials cite roughly four gigawatts of operational and planned capacity across U.S. and European markets including Dallas, Houston-area, Chicago, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Silicon Valley, Austin, Frankfurt, Berlin, Madrid and the Nordics, with named projects such as its 33 MW Los Angeles (LAX01-01) facility and a planned 240 MW, five-building Phoenix campus in Avondale.

Litigation posture: Prime appears in the tracked data once, and only as a defendant — consistent with an operating company defending against patent assertions, not an NPE. It has no plaintiff-side filings. The single case, Valtrus Innovations Ltd. et al. v. Prime Data Centers, LLC, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (No. 2:26-cv-02413) and transferred on the JPML's conditional transfer order into the Eastern District of Texas as part of MDL No. 3190 (E.D. Tex. No. 2:26-cv-00762). Prime filed motions to sever and to stay before transfer; those proceedings were terminated on transfer. Valtrus Innovations Ltd. and Key Patent Innovations Ltd. are Dublin-based patent assertion entities holding patents acquired from Hewlett Packard Enterprise; the Stanford NPE litigation database classifies Valtrus as a non-practicing entity and Unified Patents describes the campaign as targeting cloud, data center and storage technology. Prime is one of many data center operators sued in the same campaign, alongside Compass Datacenters, NTT Global Data Centers, TierPoint, Netrality, Iron Mountain, Lumen, STACK, Cologix and CoreSite.