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AT&T's switching center at 500 South 27th Street sits beside the South Street Bridge on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Bell Telephone commissioned the six-story, windowless building from the architects Ewing Cole in 1967 as a giant switching station for voice and data traffic along the Northeast corridor. It remains a working telecommunications facility with four permanent generators.
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| 0.35 miles | Hivelocity: Philadelphia PHL1 |
Hivelocity's Philadelphia 1 (PHL1) colocation facility sits in 2401 Locust Street, a four-story carrier building in Center City Philadelphia anchored by Verizon.
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| 0.36 miles | Verizon: 2401 Locust |
Verizon Business network suites in 2401 Locust Street, a four-story carrier building in Center City Philadelphia that Verizon anchors.
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| 0.36 miles | Lumen Philadelphia 4 | |
| 0.54 miles | Lumen Philadelphia 3 |
Lumen's Philadelphia 3 site is a network switching and colocation point in Lincoln Plaza at 3020 Market Street in University City.
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| 0.85 miles | University of Pennsylvania: Penn Data Center |
The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Data Center at Pennovation Works is a small university data center on the South Bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
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| 0.92 miles | 365 Philadelphia (University City) |
Located in downtown Philadelphia at the Penn Medicine Science Center
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| 1.52 miles | 365 Philadelphia (Downtown) |
Built 2009 inside 1500 Spring Garden Street, a 1947 former GlaxoSmithKline (SmithKline) corporate headquarters building converted by SunGard Availability Services. PA1 in 365's portfolio.
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| 1.53 miles | Crown Castle 401 N Broad |
A colocation and interconnection facility inside the 401 North Broad Street carrier hotel in Philadelphia, built up by Lightower.
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| 1.54 miles | DataBank Philadelphia PHL1 |
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| 1.55 miles | 401 North Broad St - Netrality Philadelphia |
Premier core interconnection data center in Philadelphia
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| 1.55 miles | H5 Philadelphia |
H5 Philadelphia is a colocation data center in Suite 520 on the fifth floor of 1500 Spring Garden Street, a converted former SmithKline headquarters in Center City Philadelphia.
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| 1.56 miles | 11:11 Systems: Philadelphia |
11:11 Systems acquired this data center (along with other Sungard Availability Services assets) in November 2022.
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| 1.56 miles | Lumen: 401 N Broad |
Lumen's Philadelphia gateway and colocation point inside 401 North Broad Street, the city's main carrier hotel.
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| 1.57 miles | Verizon: 401 Broad | |
| 1.57 miles | Equinix Philadelphia PH1 |
Equinix PH1 is a colocation data center on the 9th floor of 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, a Switch and Data site since 1998 that Equinix expanded in 2015.
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| 1.60 miles | Lightower Philadelphia 1309 Noble |
A colocation data center in the historic Lasher Printing Building at 1309 Noble Street, north of Center City Philadelphia, opened by Lightower in 2017.
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| 1.61 miles | Verizon: 1309 Noble St |
Verizon Business network and colocation space in the Lasher Printing Building at 1309 Noble Street, north of Center City Philadelphia.
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| 1.68 miles | Verizon: Philadelphia Market CO |
Verizon's Market central office at 900 Race Street is a 1920s Bell Telephone switching building in Center City Philadelphia that houses the city's tandem switch.
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| 1.74 miles | Lumen Philadelphia 2 | |
| 3.89 miles | TierPoint Philadelphia |
TierPoint's Philadelphia data center sits in the South Philadelphia Navy Yard; it opened in 2010 as the Philadelphia Technology Park.
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| 5.07 miles | VA: Philadelphia Information Technology Center |
The VA Philadelphia Information Technology Center is a core data center of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs inside its regional office building on Wissahickon Avenue in Philadelphia.
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| 10.16 miles | American Tower: Mount Royal, NJ |
American Tower has officially withdrawn its application for a proposed Edge data center in East Greenwich Township, New Jersey.
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| 10.46 miles | TierPoint: Conshohocken |
A former colocation data center in the Spring Mill Corporate Center near Conshohocken, opened by PAETEC and later run by Windstream and TierPoint.
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| 11.86 miles | DāStor: 411 Swedeland |
DāSTOR's former King of Prussia data center at 411 Swedeland Road, on the old GlaxoSmithKline research campus; DāSTOR now lists the site only as a point of presence.
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| 12.02 miles | MLP Ventures: Plymouth Township |
MLP Ventures proposes a 10-building data center campus at the former Cleveland-Cliffs Conshohocken plate mill in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County.
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| 12.41 miles | MLP Ventures: King of Prussia Campus |
MLP Ventures proposed data centers on five sites in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township; township supervisors denied all five in August 2026.
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| 12.55 miles | SAP: Newtown Square |
SAP's enterprise data center at its North American headquarters campus on West Chester Pike in Newtown Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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| 12.73 miles | DāStor: 3400 Horizon |
The facility is network neutral with multiple carriers in place and a redundant fiber ring that connects to 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia
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| 15.22 miles | NorthPoint: 2000 Kubach Rd |
A two-story former enterprise data center in Northeast Philadelphia's Byberry West Industrial Park, long used by The Vanguard Group and now owned by NorthPoint Development.
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| 15.45 miles | Verizon: King of Prussia (630 Clark Ave) |
Verizon's single-story data center at 630 Clark Avenue in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township, owned by Mapletree Industrial Trust and fully leased to Verizon.
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| 15.91 miles | Comcast: Moorestown, NJ |
Built in 2001 and set on 5.1 acres, the three-story building spans 74,240 square feet (6,900 sqm).
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| 17.19 miles | Lumen Norristown | |
| 17.39 miles | Colocation America - Philadelphia DC2 | |
| 17.39 miles | TierPoint Valley Forge |
The site is a former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014
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