DartPoints

DartPoints

DartPoints started operations in 2012 when Hugh Carspecken and Jeff Noland set out to build a platform focused exclusively on edge colocation, interconnection, and cloud services. Unlike hyperscale competitors that concentrate on massive campuses in primary data center corridors, DartPoints targets Tier II and Tier III markets where latency-sensitive workloads and local enterprise demand create a structural need for proximate digital infrastructure. The company maintains its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, with additional operational footprints in Greenville, Columbia, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, reflecting an early concentration in the Southeastern US. The firm acquires, retrofits, and operates purpose-built edge data centers that support colocation, private cloud, and disaster-recovery solutions. Its asset mix spans carrier-neutral interconnection facilities, managed hybrid cloud nodes, and bare-metal compute environments. DartPoints does not publicly disclose asset-level capacity numbers, but its facility count has grown to over ten sites through both greenfield development and acquisitions, including the purchase of colocation assets from a regional fiber operator. The company serves a client base of enterprises, healthcare systems, content delivery networks, and government entities that require sub-10-millisecond latency to end users. In February 2024, DartPoints appointed Scott Willis as President and Chief Revenue Officer, signaling a sharpened focus on commercial growth alongside the infrastructure buildout (per Data Center Dynamics, 2024). The firm operates as a portfolio company under Astra Capital Management, a private equity sponsor based in Washington, DC, that invests in mid-market communications and technology infrastructure. This sponsor-backed structure allows DartPoints to pursue an acquisition-and-build strategy without the capital constraints of a standalone family office or the quarterly reporting pressure of a public REIT. The management team blends telecom veterans with private equity operators. Adjacent vehicles or philanthropic foundations tied to the firm have not been publicly disclosed. The structural differentiator for DartPoints lies in its edge-interconnection thesis combined with a secondary-market acquisition playbook. While most data center platforms chase wholesale hyperscale deals in Northern Virginia or Phoenix, DartPoints targets smaller metropolitan statistical areas where a single carrier hotel or meet-me room can function as the sole interconnection hub for a region. This creates a localized monopoly-like dynamic in network-dense sites, a posture that departs from the commodity colocation model that dominates the broader industry.