Inside the Freedom Center: South Florida’s Next-Generation Data Center Now Accepting Tenants
- Todd Colpron
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
South Florida’s emergence as a serious data center market is no longer theoretical. It is operational, powered, and ready. The Freedom Center stands as a clear signal that the region has entered a new phase—one defined by execution rather than ambition, and by infrastructure that meets the real demands of AI-driven workloads.
Over the last two days, Rich Washburn, Managing Partner & Chief AI Officer of Eliakim Capital, spent extensive time onsite at the Freedom Center. The walkthrough was not a surface-level tour, but a detailed, operator-focused review of power readiness, network reach, and deployment scalability. What emerged was a clear picture of a facility built for the current and next generation of compute.
The Freedom Center is now actively accepting tenants, and it does so with one of the most important differentiators in today’s market: live power. In an environment where utility delays and interconnection backlogs have become the norm, this campus offers immediate operational capability rather than future promises.
Power infrastructure is already in place and designed to support higher-density environments, including AI inference workloads and GPU clusters that demand consistency and redundancy.
Equally critical is the facility’s strategic fiber reach. South Florida’s position as an international connectivity hub is increasingly relevant as enterprises, cloud providers, and AI platforms look to serve global users while maintaining regional resiliency. The Freedom Center leverages this geographic advantage, enabling low-latency access and strong network optionality for tenants operating across borders or requiring diversified routes.
Space at the campus has been designed with scalability in mind. This is not a legacy colocation asset attempting to retrofit for AI-era requirements, but a purpose-built environment capable of expanding alongside tenant needs. For organizations deploying GPU-intensive workloads, the ability to scale without disruptive migrations or power reengineering is now a core operational consideration, and one the Freedom Center addresses directly.
From Eliakim Capital’s perspective, the Freedom Center represents the type of infrastructure that aligns with how compute demand is actually evolving. Power availability, speed-to-market, and execution certainty now matter more than raw square footage or speculative capacity. Facilities that can deliver these attributes today carry outsized strategic value for operators, tenants, and investors alike.
For companies evaluating colocation or edge compute options in South Florida, this campus deserves serious consideration. The Freedom Center combines live power, strong connectivity, and AI-ready design in a market that is rapidly gaining relevance.
Eliakim Capital remains focused on supporting and aligning with platforms like this—where disciplined infrastructure, capital stewardship, and real-world readiness intersect to power the next phase of digital and AI growth.