Telehouse Chelsea Center (85 10th Avenue)

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Telehouse Chelsea Center (85 10th Avenue)

PUE: 1.69
Ownership: Telehouse does not own the building.

Sites leasing space from Telehouse:

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The Telehouse Chelsea datacenter at 85 10th Ave was opened in 2011 and was previously a Lehman Brothers facility. The building is the closest datacenter to 111 8th without actually being in 111 8th. Related Companies owns the building.

Location:


The 11-story full-block structure from 10th to 11th Avenue and 15th to 16th Street. 85 Tenth Avenue is a 635,000-square-foot, located on the border of West Chelsea and the Meatpacking District.

85 10th Peering Exchanges and Connectivity:


  • NYIIX available (Telehouse operated)
  • DE-CIX New York

Telehouse is operated as a carrier neutral hotel and continues to win more networks in its site. The following networks have announced deployments at 85 10th Ave:

  • Level3
  • GTT Communications
  • Hurricane Electric
  • Console
  • Axiom Fiber Networks
  • Atlantic Metro Communications (Source)
  • Cleareon Fiber Networks

85 10th Building History:


  • Built in 1913 as a Nabisco factory. The first Oreo cookies were baked in the building. It was built on landfill -- the timbers, chain and anchor of a two-masted schooner were found during excavation. Source: NYT
  • 1998, Bought and sold by Level3 Communications
  • 2005 Somerset Partners acquired the building for $300m
  • 2007, Related Companies & Vornado Realty Trust bought the building for $450m and currently own the building
  • In 2014, Google signed a lease for 180,000 sqft of office space. Google has expansion options that could over the next 10 years, give it full occupancy of the property.
  • in 2015 once the federal government's lease ended. Google leases over 750,000sqft between 111 8th, 85 10th, and Chelsea Market.

Facility:


  • SSAE 15 Certified
  • 18-inch raised floor throughout
  • 12 Foot Ceilings (8.85 ft. above raised floor)
  • Rooftop antenna access
  • Maximum floor load of 143.4 lb/sq. ft.
  • Overhead power and communications cable route
  • Current PUE level at 1.69
  • Customer staging rooms available with storage space
  • 11 Story building with 56,000-sq.ft. floor plates

Map and Nearby Locations:

85 10th Avenue ( 7th Floor )
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Telehouse is a subsidiary of KDDI Corporation. KDDI was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

History (by site):


1989: New York Teleport site
1990: London Docklands North
1997: New York 25 Broadway
1997: London Metro
1998: Expanded to Los Angeles
1999: London Docklands East
1999: Paris Voltaire
2000: Asian expansion in Hong Kong & Seoul
2008: Beijing BEZ & Singapore
2009: Paris Magny
2010: London Docklands West
2010: Hanoi & Shanghai Jinqiao
2010: Johannesburg
2011: Hong Kong CCC
2011: New York Chelsea
2011: Istanbul
2012: Frankfurt and Moscow
2012: Beijing BDA
2013: Shanghai Zhangjiang

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