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Go to PodcastDataYard runs its colocation and cloud data center in a suite of the 130 Building, a 22-story office tower on West Second Street in downtown Dayton. The company built the facility in 2012 to replace its first downtown data center, opened in 1999. It holds a SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation.
The data center has A and B power feeds, dual UPS systems and a natural-gas backup generator added in 2026. Cooling runs on a 40,000-gallon glycol loop with two 70-ton chillers and four air handlers over a raised floor, all N+1. The mechanical and electrical gallery sits apart from the white space, and four diverse upstream circuits connect the site.
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| 0.09 miles | AT&T: Dayton Main |
AT&T's main telephone exchange for Dayton, Ohio, in the 1930 Ohio Bell Telephone Building on West Second Street downtown.
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| 0.15 miles | AT&T: Dayton 300 W 1st St |
AT&T's four-story telephone equipment building on West First Street in downtown Dayton, Ohio, on the same block as its main exchange.
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| 0.16 miles | Lumen Dayton 3 |
Lumen runs a small colocation and network suite in the Fifth Third Center tower in downtown Dayton, Ohio, a site that began with tw telecom.
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| 1.46 miles | Lumen Dayton |
Lumen owns a small network and colocation building on South Broadway in Dayton, Ohio, built by Williams Communications.
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| 5.02 miles | Landmark Dividend: Dayton, OH |
Landmark Dividend's vacant single-story data center in north Dayton, Ohio, available for lease or sale since Radian moved out in 2025.
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| 5.65 miles | Reynolds and Reynolds: Kettering |
Reynolds and Reynolds runs a data center at its headquarters campus in Kettering, Ohio, where it hosts dealership data for its automotive software customers.
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| 6.15 miles | U.S. Air Force: IT Complex (Bldg 802) |
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Information Technology Complex near Dayton, Ohio, a 2012 building with a below-grade data center for Air Force research computing.
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| 6.18 miles | U.S. Air Force: AFRL DSRC (Bldg 676) |
The Air Force Research Laboratory's DoD Supercomputing Resource Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
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| 10.11 miles | Encore Technologies MSB1 |
Encore Technologies' MSB1 data center on Springboro Pike in Miamisburg, Ohio, a former LexisNexis data center that Encore bought in 2022.
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| 11.91 miles | LexisNexis Springboro |
LexisNexis opened its Springboro data center in 2012 as the first tenant of IO's modular facility south of Dayton, Ohio, now Iron Mountain OHS-1.
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| 11.91 miles | Iron Mountain: Miamisburg (OHS-1) |
Iron Mountain's OHS-1 is a colocation data center south of Dayton, Ohio, converted from a retail building by IO in 2012 and acquired by Iron Mountain in 2018.
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| 13.79 miles | Verizon: Waynesville, OH |
Verizon's former MCI long-haul network and colocation node on Lytle-Ferry Road near Waynesville, Ohio.
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| 15.58 miles | MVECA: Yellow Springs |
MVECA's data center at its Yellow Springs, Ohio headquarters, which serves school districts and local governments across southwest Ohio.
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DataYard is a managed IT and cloud hosting company based in Dayton, Ohio. Three founders started it in 1995 as Donet, a dial-up internet provider, and grew it into business hosting, colocation and IT consulting. The company hosts the Ohio Lottery and other US lotteries in its cloud and holds a SOC 2 Type 2 accreditation. It runs its data center on West Second Street and keeps its offices at the Arcade Innovation Hub.
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