Next Tier Connect, a partnership of Next Tier HD and RedBird Capital, bought the former Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville in 2018 and runs it as a mission-critical technology campus. The two-tower building has dual electrical feeds from diverse routes, an on-site underground utility substation and a standby generator plant for tenant systems. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center houses its Bridges-2 supercomputer here, alongside office and research tenants.
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| 6.95 miles | iM Critical: Pittsburgh |
iM Critical's Pittsburgh campus is a modular high-density data center site on Brinton Road at the Wilkinsburg-Edgewood border, east of downtown.
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| 8.21 miles | Ascent Data: Pittsburgh |
Ascent Data runs a SOC 2 audited data center for its managed IT and colocation customers in the RIDC Park in O'Hara Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 8.26 miles | Dynamo DC: Springdale |
Dynamo DC plans a single large AI data center on the site of the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 8.73 miles | University of Pittsburgh: NOC |
The University of Pittsburgh's Network Operations Center in the RIDC Park, O'Hara Township, is the university's enterprise data center for IT and research computing.
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| 9.67 miles | Henderson Road Data Center |
Hendricks Group proposes a large data center campus with its own gas power plant on a former landfill on Henderson Road in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County.
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| 9.72 miles | TECfusions: New Kensington, PA |
TECfusions' Keystone Connect is an AI data center campus at the former Alcoa Technical Center in Upper Burrell Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 11.05 miles | Verizon: 530 N Neville St |
Verizon's Oakland central office in Pittsburgh holds the host switch that now serves many of the area's former exchanges, plus a regional signaling hub.
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| 11.16 miles | aspStation: Pittsburgh |
aspStation runs a small colocation and cloud data center in its own building on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's East End, built by IBM in 1990.
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| 11.49 miles | Lumen: Pittsburgh 2 |
Lumen's Pittsburgh 2 site is a network switching and colocation building on Technology Drive in the Pittsburgh Technology Center.
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| 11.62 miles | American Tower: Pittsburgh |
American Tower's Pittsburgh edge data center is a small modular colocation facility at a tower site in southern Pittsburgh.
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| 12.08 miles | Lumen Pittsburgh 1 |
Lumen's Pittsburgh 1 site is a network gateway and colocation building on South 25th Street in Pittsburgh's South Side Flats.
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| 12.24 miles | Cogent: 3126 Liberty Ave |
Cogent's Pittsburgh data center is a colocation facility in the former Sprint network building on Liberty Avenue, at the edge of the Strip District.
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| 12.74 miles | H5 Pittsburgh |
H5 Pittsburgh is a colocation data center in Pittsburgh's Strip District that H5 Data Centers bought from vXchnge in 2022.
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| 12.87 miles | MSA: Rockpointe |
MSA's RockPointe data center is the original Tier III colocation facility of Management Science Associates, in West Deer Township north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 12.89 miles | Consolidated Rockpointe |
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's RockPointe data center in West Deer Township until about 2025.
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| 13.43 miles | AT&T: 635 Grant St |
AT&T's 16-story network building at 635 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, owned by Reign Capital since a 2021 sale-leaseback.
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| 13.46 miles | Verizon: 416 7th Ave |
Verizon's Downtown Pittsburgh central office in the 20-story Bell Telephone Building houses the area's main tandem switch and a regional signaling hub.
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| 13.67 miles | DQE Communications Pittsburgh |
DQE Communications' downtown Pittsburgh colocation room and network node inside the Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue.
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| 13.68 miles | E.V. Bishoff: Pittsburgh Tech Center |
The Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue is E.V. Bishoff's downtown data center and telecom building, home to DQE and several colocation providers.
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| 13.99 miles | Verizon: 3 Allegheny Ctr |
A former XO Communications network and colocation node at 3 Allegheny Center on Pittsburgh's North Side; the building now holds apartments.
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| 14.00 miles | DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1 |
DataBank PIT1 is a carrier-neutral colocation data center in Nova Place on Pittsburgh's North Side that hosts the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange.
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| 14.02 miles | Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side) |
Expedient's North Side data center is a colocation and cloud facility in Nova Place, the former Allegheny Center Mall, on Pittsburgh's North Side.
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| 15.77 miles | Consolidated Evergreen |
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's Evergreen Heights data center north of Pittsburgh until about 2025.
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| 15.79 miles | MSA: Evergreen Hights |
MSA's Evergreen Heights data center is a Tier III-designed colocation facility in a hillside bunker in Ross Township, north of Pittsburgh.
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| 15.84 miles | Expedient Pittsburgh (Green Tree) |
Expedient's Green Tree data center is the company's original Pittsburgh colocation facility, in Green Tree Borough south-west of downtown.
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| 15.92 miles | EdgeConneX Pittsburgh |
EdgeConneX Pittsburgh is an edge colocation data center west of downtown Pittsburgh in a building EdgeConneX owns.
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| 16.55 miles | TriEnergy: Stanton Farm |
TriEnergy proposes a large single-building data center on the Stanton Farm off Route 31 in South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County.
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Next Tier Connect is a real estate company that acquires data center and mixed-use mission-critical properties in regional U.S. markets. Next Tier HD, a New York real estate private equity firm focused on data center and mission-critical assets, runs the company, and RedBird Capital Partners provides its capital.
Its launch property is Next Tier Connect Pittsburgh East at 4350 Northern Pike in Monroeville, the former world headquarters of Westinghouse's nuclear division. The five-story, 600,000 square foot complex was built in two phases in 1971 and 1986 and sits on 138 acres. It combines office, business continuity and data center space, with dual utility feeds from diverse routes, an on-site Duquesne Light substation, a tenant generator plant, and lit and dark fiber to a downtown Pittsburgh carrier hotel. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center hosts its Bridges-2 supercomputer on the campus.
June 01, 2023 Pittsburgh
A data center for sale or lease is available in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colliers and Five 9s Digital are offering the McKees Rock facility located at 615 McMichael Road. The site is listed for lease in Colliers' materials, but Five 9s claims it can be purchased or leased. The circa...
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May 18, 2022 Pittsburgh
iM Critical has begun constructing a modular Edge data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The data center campus will have three buildings when fully built out. It will also include EV charging stations and on-site solar power. iM Critical says the data center will support more than 35kW...
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iM Critical has announced its plans to develop a modular data center campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The campus will be developed on a 5.4-acre site. In addition, it will provide 10MW in capacity. According to the company, the first phase of development will offer 3MW, and it will come online...
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