TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham

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Milwaukee

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Wisconsin

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Midwest US

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United States

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North America

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TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham

Short Code: BDC

PUE: 1.8

Utility Provider: We Energies

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Operational Power

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Gross Colocation Size

Quick Facts:

Site was acquired when TierPoint bought Cosentury in January 2016.
Site was previously managed by RedAnvil Burnham (BDC) before being acquired by Cosentury ^[r1] in 2014.
Guest office, break room and conference room facilities available
Power Density: 6kW per cabinet

Power:

Diesel generator with over 24 hours of runtime
N+1 high-efficiency UPS with redundant battery strings
Redundant (A+B) power distribution to each cabinet available
Power metering and utilization reporting by circuit, cabinet and room

HVAC:

N+1 continuous cooling systems
Hot/cold aisle alignment and containment options available
Ducted cold air supply and hot air return
Set points maintain ASHRAE standards for data centers
Cooling systems and environmental monitoring for temperature, humidity, dew point, airflow, smoke and leaks

References:

r1. Data Center Knowledge link

Map and Nearby Locations

3701 W. Burnham St

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham

Distance	Site	About
2.42 miles	AT&T: 918 N 26th St
2.42 miles	Data Holdings Milwaukee	Data Holdings runs a Tier III colocation data center at 3135 West Highland Boulevard in Milwaukee. The Forest County Potawatomi Community owns the business. The two-story building opened in 2013, added a 7,500 sq ft suite in 2019 and has hosted the MKE-IX internet exchange since 2025.
2.58 miles	Cogent: Milwaukee 2	Cogent Communications runs its Milwaukee 2 data center at 2915 South 5th Court in Milwaukee's Bay View area, in a former Sprint network building. The site offers about 3,900 sq ft of colocation with UPS and generator backup.
2.91 miles	AT&T: 6812 Aetna Ct
3.42 miles	AT&T: 722 N Broadway	AT&T's Broadway central office at 722-740 North Broadway in downtown Milwaukee is the main telephone exchange of Wisconsin Bell and its former headquarters. Reign Capital bought the 20-story 1930 tower and its 1953 annex in 2021, and AT&T leases them back.
3.42 miles	Netwurx 324 E Wisconsin
3.43 miles	1547: Wells Building	The Wells Building at 324 East Wisconsin Avenue is a 15-story carrier hotel in downtown Milwaukee. 1547 Critical Systems Realty bought the 1901 building in 2020 and runs it as a multi-tenant data center and interconnection hub.
3.43 miles	TSR 324 E Wisconsin
3.43 miles	Cogent: 324 E Wisconsin
3.55 miles	Windstream Milwaukee
3.57 miles	Vaultas Milwaukee
5.90 miles	Affordable Family Storage: Midtown Milwaukee	Affordable Family Storage proposed a 19,000 sq ft computing facility inside the former Walmart at 5825 West Hope Avenue in Milwaukee's Midtown neighborhood. It dropped the data center in July 2026 after community opposition, and the redevelopment went ahead with housing, a library branch and self-storage.
6.43 miles	Windstream Brookfield
7.02 miles	Northwestern Mutual: Franklin
7.45 miles	AT&T: 405 N Fairway Dr
7.61 miles	Verizon Wireless: New Berlin
7.65 miles	AT&T: 7721 W Fond du Lac Ave
8.07 miles	Johnson Controls: Glendale
8.77 miles	AT&T: 5825 N 99th St	AT&T built a mobile switching center at 5825 North 99th Street in Milwaukee in 1995. The site closed and sold at the end of 2025, and the 29,500 sq ft building now markets for sale or lease as the 99th Street Technology Center.
9.21 miles	Fiserv: Brookfield	Fiserv runs a data center in its former headquarters campus at 255 Fiserv Drive in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Fiserv kept the data center when it moved its headquarters to downtown Milwaukee in 2023, and put the 186,000 sq ft campus up for sale in 2024.
10.11 miles	Aventus: Milwaukee (Lakes)	Aventus Lakes is a Tier III, SOC 2 Type 2 colocation facility in the Granville Station area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a 26,432 sq ft building-in-a-building masonry structure on 2 acres. In data-center use since about 2007 (formerly VCPI/Agility Colo) and acquired by Aventus Data Centers (a division of Vincent Companies) in 2022, it offers single-cabinet, cage, and private-suite colocation.
10.13 miles	Expedient Franklin	Expedient runs MKE1, its Milwaukee-area data center, at 4777 West Ironwood Drive in Franklin, Wisconsin. Expedient opened the former Harley-Davidson data center in 2021 and leases the whole building from StratCap Data Centers.
10.13 miles	StratCap: 4777 Ironwood	4777 West Ironwood Drive in Franklin, Wisconsin, is a 28,500 sq ft data center built in 2008 for Harley-Davidson. StratCap Data Centers bought it in 2022, and Expedient leases the whole building as its Milwaukee facility.
10.25 miles	MilwaukeeColo
11.80 miles	FIS: Brown Deer	FIS owns a data center on its 20-acre former Metavante campus at 4900 West Brown Deer Road in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee. Ascent operates the facility.
12.23 miles	Lumen Milwaukee 1
13.30 miles	ValleyInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.58 miles	AT&T: 220 Wisconsin Ave, Waukesha
13.95 miles	Mapletree: N15 W24250 Riverwood	N15 W24250 Riverwood Drive in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, is a two-story, 142,952 sq ft data center built in 1985 with about 40,000 sq ft of raised floor. AT&T used the building for decades. It is now vacant and offered for lease.
17.50 miles	AT&T: W277 S4747 Saylesville Rd
17.76 miles	Ethoplex

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Cosentry acquired the facility from Red Anvil in 2013

Photo Taken pre-2016 when the Facility was Operated by Cosentry

Source: Cosentry

Cosentry acquired the facility from Red Anvil in 2013

Operating Company

TierPoint is a data center and managed services provider that focuses on secondary markets in the United States. Operating as a private-equity backed company, As detailed in the history section below, Tierpoint has actively acquired smaller providers and impressively rolled up a national platform in 20 markets.

Tierpoint Acquisitions and History

TierPoint was formed in 2010 as Cequel Data Centers LLC, however, the company's origins date back to 1995. Through a conglomeration of acquisitions, TierPoint built its data center portfolio. ^[r1]

2010:

Cequel acquired Colo4 (Based in Dallas and originally founded in 2000)

2011

Cequel acquired Perimeter Technology (Based in Oklahoma and founded in 2003)

2012

Cequel acquired TierPoint (Based in Spokane and founded in 2003). After the acquisition, Cequel was rebranded as Tierpoint
2012 Adhost acquired (Based in Seattle and founded in 1995)
2012 DBSi acquired ^[r2]

2013

Baltimore Technology Park acquired (Based in Baltimore and founded in 2005)

2014

TierPoint Management team recapitalized the company
Philadelphia Technology Park. Located in the Philadelphia Navy Yard the 25,700 sqft Philadelphia Technology Park first opened in 2010
Xand (founded in 1999)

2015

Acquired CxP Data Centers that added a 121,000sqft Jacksonville facility ^[r3]
TierPoint Acquires AlteredScale Data Center in Chicago
Acquired Windstream for $575 million. The transaction added 20 datacenters, mainly in the East, Midwest, and South, which fit nicely with TierPoint's western-leaning portfolio. Windstream was itself a data center roll-up of sorts. In 2010 Windstream acquired PAETEC and Hosted Solutions in 2010.

2016

Cosentury was acquired by Tierpoint in January 2016 for $575 million. Cosentury, was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in Omaha, NE. It provided Colocation, IaaS, and Compliance and Security services. Cosentury was a large company to swallow. It had nine data centers in the Midwest US and 220 emploiyees.

Tierpoint Services

Data center colocation is the prime product, but Tierpoint also offers Cloud, Managed Services, and DIA with DDoS protection.

TierPoint's customer portal allows for self-provisioning of resources (such as VMs and storage) and a dashboard that allows customers to remotely monitor workloads and applications across all locations. The company offers a comprehensive solution portfolio of private, multitenant, hyperscale, and hybrid cloud, plus colocation, disaster recovery, security and other managed IT services.

References:

r1. TierPoint Company Page
r2. Source: Data Center Knowledge
r3. Press Release Archive. July 27, 2015

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