Former Flexential Data Center in Allentown Hits Market for Lease or Sale, Offering 2.5MW with Expansion to 40MW
July 3, 2026
Former Flexential Data Center in Allentown Hits Market for Lease or Sale, Offering 2.5MW with Expansion to 40MW
A former Flexential data center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, has been put on the market for lease or sale, presenting a rare opportunity for large-scale AI, cloud, and high-performance computing deployments in the Lehigh Valley. The facility, located at 744 Roble Road, is being listed by real estate firm Five 9s Digital, which described the property as a way to secure capacity with a materially shorter path to revenue generation compared to traditional greenfield developments.
The single-story data center sits on 3.4 acres and spans 46,800 square feet. It currently delivers 2.5MW of critical IT capacity, but the listing highlights significant expansion potential: up to 10MW can be made available within six months through existing distribution infrastructure, and a full build-out to 40MW is achievable within eight months of the first phase, supported by PPL Electric Utilities. The site also includes 2.9MW of backup generators and 849kW of UPS capacity.
According to Five 9s Digital, leasing remains the preferred path for the property, though the ownership would consider acquisition opportunities. The facility was previously occupied by Flexential, which operated it as its DC7 site. The listing notes that the data center was recently vacated, though the exact timing of Flexential's exit remains unclear. Flexential no longer lists the Allentown building on its website; the company’s only remaining data center in Pennsylvania is located near Philadelphia in Collegeville, a facility it acquired from GlaxoSmithKline in 2017.
The site has a deeper history in the region’s data center landscape. It was once operated by InetU, a company founded around 1996 and acquired by ViaWest in 2015. ViaWest later merged with Peak10 around 2017 to form what is now Flexential. The availability of this facility comes at a time when demand for powered shell and ready-to-scale capacity in secondary markets like the Lehigh Valley is surging, driven by the need for AI and HPC workloads that require rapid deployment timelines and access to substantial power.
Source: datacenterdynamics
