Tierpoint Charleston

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Operational

Fully operational facility

Boston

Metro
Massachusetts

State
Northeast US

Region
United States

Country
North America

Region
Americas

Region

Tierpoint Charleston

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

Located on the Hood Park campus, TierPoint’s Charlestown data center is a short walk from the Sullivan Square MBTA station located near I-93.

The Charlestown facility is a safe, secure facility audited under SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS*, GLBA and HIPAA standards annually. ITAR and EU-US Privacy Shield registered.

Map and Nearby Locations

500 Rutherford Avenue

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Tierpoint Charleston

Distance	Site	About
0.44 miles	Evocative Somerville BOS1	Datacenter built in 2009 and expanded in 2013 Two (2) Story structure
0.47 miles	FirstLight Somerville	Located less than one mile from I-93 on the Boston/Somerville line and at the intersection of multiple redundant fiber networks, ColoSpace Somerville offers a combination of convenience to downtown Boston and Cambridge
0.47 miles	Internap Boston	Although Internap is a carrier, the company operates a "carrier neutral" data center. There are a half dozen networks in the site, plus more via the CoreSite Meet-Me-Room
0.47 miles	CoreSite Somerville BO1
0.48 miles	AXCELX Somerville
0.49 miles	Cogent: Somerville
1.09 miles	Verizon: Cambridge 89 Fulkerson	Former XO Communications site
1.17 miles	Lumen Cambridge 1 (300 Bent)
1.24 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Boston, Massachusetts.
1.44 miles	Lumen Boston (1 Main)
1.69 miles	Expedient Boston
1.92 miles	DataBank BOS1
1.92 miles	Crown Castle One Summer	Markley One Sumer is the landlord for Lightower at this site.
1.93 miles	Verizon: One Summer	Markley One Sumer is the landlord for Verizon at this site.
1.95 miles	Lumen Boston 1
1.95 miles	Markley: One Summer Street	Markley's One Summer Street is Boston's carrier hotel. The building is the largest multi-tenant telecommunications facility in New England. Home to over 90 different carriers and network providers, One Summer offers clients unlimited bandwidth, high-density connectivity, unsurpassed infrastructure, abundant and reliable power, and true network diversity
4.58 miles	Centersquare: Watertown BOS4	Centersquare's cloud-enabled Watertown data center is located close to the center of Boston, and only 10 miles from Boston Logan International Airport. The facility was originally built in 2002 and then expanded in 2008 to add space, power, and cooling capacity.
9.27 miles	105 Cabot - Digital Realty	3 Story Structure Flood Zone: Outside 100 and 500 Year Flood Plain Seismic Zone 2A
9.28 miles	128 1ST - Digital Realty	Originally built by a telecom company in 2000, this facility has 13 MW of critical IT load that serves a total of 18 customers who are primarily internet based, financial services, and healthcare related companies.
9.66 miles	200 Quannapowitt	The former facility was torn down in 2023.
9.86 miles	115 2nd - Digital Realty	Digital Realty full leased the building to a Triple Net tenant, Cyxtera BO3
9.86 miles	Centersquare: Waltham BO3	1 Story Structure Raised Floor: 24"
10.00 miles	Centersquare Waltham BOS1	Datacenter operational since in 1998. 2 story building Raised Floor: 12" Utility: NSTAR
10.01 miles	600 Winter - Digital Realty	Digital Realty full leased the building to a Triple Net tenant, Cyxtera BO1.
10.08 miles	Equinix Boston BO1
12.07 miles	Camber: Bedford, MA	1 Story structure Flood Zone: Outside 100 and 500 Year Flood Plain Seismic Zone 2A N+2 Cooling Plant Redundancy
13.59 miles	EdgeConneX Boston	Customer work spaces are available Raised Floor: 30" EdgeConnex has rights to adjacent space to accommodate expansion.
13.86 miles	Equinix Boston BO2	Equinix acquired BO2 as well as 28 other datacenters from Verizon in 2017. It was formerly named Verizon BOS1 Billerica. Constructed in 2001 Construction Type: Slab on grade, concrete
17.49 miles	FirstLight Rockland	The site was acquired from ColoSpace in 2019.
19.92 miles	Prov.net Boston North	Dedicated ½ Cabinet to Multi-cabinet Suites Diverse power feeds 750 KW Generator Redundant (A/B) Distribution

Tierpoint Charleston Data Center Photos See all

Outside of the Boston-Charleston Facility on 500 Rutherford Ave

Source: Baxtel

Boston Metro: Average Power Rates

Source: JLL

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

Facilities

129MW

Megawatts

News See all

Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners.

January 20, 2025 TierPoint

Investment giant Apollo Global Management is acquiring Argo Infrastructure Partners in a deal that will add approximately $6 billion of assets to the Apollo infrastructure platform. Argo is the majority owner of US data center firm TierPoint, which operates around 40 facilities across 18 US...

Lightmatter officially becomes a unicorn

December 19, 2023 Boston

Photonic computing company Lightmatter has now been crowned a Unicorn, raising $155 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This funding is part of the series C investment round, which helped the company raise $154 million in May, successfully tripling the company’s value at the time. Overall,...

TierPoint aims to raise $925 million through securitized loans

June 29, 2023 TierPoint

TierPoint seeks to raise $925 million by selling A-rated data center revenue notes from Kroll Bond Rating Agency. The exchange is TierPoint's first and is backed by 31 colocation data centers with approximately $397.2 million in annualized monthly frequent revenue and $198.3 million in yearly...

TierPoint announces completion of new data center in St. Louis, Missouri

August 05, 2022 TierPoint

TierPoint has announced that its St. Louis data center in Missouri, which was announced back in September 2021, is complete. The facility, spanning 23,000 sqft (2,100 sqm), is a Tier III-quality facility that offers 14,500 sq ft (1,350 sqm) of production or raised floor space. The facility saw an...

Argo Infrastructure Partners Invests $500m in TierPoint

March 02, 2022 TierPoint

TierPoint has announced that Argo Infrastructure Partners has invested $500 million into its business. The move sees Argo Infrastructure Partners become the largest single equity investor in the firm. TierPoint will use the net proceeds from the transaction to expand the company and provide...