The Iron Mountain Data Center is located 220 feet underground this is a 145 acre former limestone mine.
Operational and expansion costs are much lower than most above-ground facilities. The data center pumps 53-degree water from an underground aquifer to cool its systems.
The mine has two major substations underground that draw power from West Penn Power's grid network. At full capacity, the Iron Mountain data center could span 500,000 square feet of space and could consume roughly 40 megawatts of power.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 13.43 miles | Keel Infrastructure: Scrubgrass AI Campus |
Keel Infrastructure’s (formerly Bitfarms) flagship long-term development site is located on approximately 650–750 acres in Scrubgrass Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania.
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| 13.55 miles | Keel Infrastructure: Scrubgrass Mining |
The Scrubgrass site was acquired from Stronghold Digital Mining in 2025.
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| 15.91 miles | DQE Communications Buttler |
The walls still have rock walls
In this photo taken Dec. 14, 2016, overhead pipes carry water from an underground reservoir to help cool the data center systems at Iron Mountain's underground data center in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Iron Mountain Data Centers is the data center business of Iron Mountain Incorporated and operates sites in the United States and Europe, with an India platform built through its partnership with Web Werks. In January 2018 it closed the acquisition of IO Data Centers, adding facilities in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona, Edison, New Jersey, and Columbus, Ohio. In May 2018 it acquired EvoSwitch Netherlands, expanding into the Amsterdam market, and in 2019 it added capacity in Amsterdam and London. In India, Iron Mountain formed a joint venture with Web Werks in 2021 and in April 2025 it announced full ownership and a rebrand to Iron Mountain Data Centers India. Iron Mountain Incorporated was founded in 1951.
Iron Mountain Data Centers History:
April 13, 2026 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain has topped out a new data center in Chennai, India.“We are thrilled to celebrate a recent major milestone in our global expansion: the official topping-out ceremony of our Chennai CHN-1 data center in Ambattur!” the company said on LinkedIn this week. “As the structural framework...
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March 18, 2026 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain is targeting a new data center development outside Austin, Texas. First reported by BizJournal, the company is targeting a campus outside the city of Hutto in Williamson County.The Hutto City Council last week reviewed a presentation from Iron Mountain on its Taylor Meadows data...
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November 06, 2023 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain is to convert one of its former records management facilities in Miami, Florida, into a data center that will offer 16MW. Iron Mountain CEO William L. Meaney said during the company's Q3 2023 earnings call last week, “Miami is a key market where a number of our customers are looking...
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October 17, 2023 Web Werks
Web Werks and Iron Mountain recently purchased a four-acre parcel of land in the Ambattur area of Chennai, India for the construction of two data center campuses. These parcel will support two buildings called CHE-1 and CHE-2 which will be built to Tier III standards and will support a total of...
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July 04, 2023 Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain has signed a 24/7 PPA agreement with Rye Development, a US hydropower developer, for 150 ME of power over the next ten years from a number of the developer's low-impact hydroelectric projects. Rye Development seeks to integrate power generation capabilities into existing dams with...
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