TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2

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Operational

Fully operational facility

Seattle

Metro
Washington

State
Pacific Northwest

Region
United States

Country
North America

Region
Americas

Region

TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2

Ownership: TierPoint does not own the building.

This site is leased from GI Partners in the KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza) building

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

TierPoint's marketing describes two data centers in Seattle, but in reality, they are in the same building.

Site	Address	SqFt	Power
DC1	100 4th Avenue N	18,000	2 MW
DC2	140 4th Avenue N, Suite 360	2,200	128 kW

Quick Facts:

Formerly operated by Adhost before being acquired by TierPoint in 2012
TierPoint leases from the KOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza), a large Seattle Carrier Hotel.
SSAE16 SOC1 & SOC2, Type II
18-inch raised floors
Seismically braced cabinets (2,000 lbs capacity each)

Power:

10.5 MW of utility power
Onsite fuel capacity of over 70,000 gallons
Minimum N+1 power delivery systems (UPS/Generator)
Multiple, redundant backup diesel generators on standby
Generators tested bi-weekly and routinely run at full load

Map and Nearby Locations

140 4th Ave N. Suite 360

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	KOMO Plaza (was Fisher Plaza)	The buildings have been used as the exterior for the fictional hospital in the “Grey’s Anatomy” TV show set in Seattle. In real life, it also houses Univision Seattle, KVI Radio, Star 101.5 radio and a data center.
0.00 miles	Evocative Seattle SEA1
0.12 miles	Lumen Seattle 4
0.42 miles	Digital Fortress Downtown	Purpose-built, high-density datacenter with Seismic Zone 4 construction.
0.42 miles	NYI Seattle SEA1
0.51 miles	Clise: 2020 Fifth	Completed in 2013, the facility repurposed a 1975 seven story parking garage, and was honored as NAIOP’s Redevelopment of the Year in 2013 and received the AGC Grand Award for Construction in 2014.
0.51 miles	Equinix Seattle SE3	Equinix SE3 is an 8-story steel and concrete structure designed to meet Zone 3 seismic specifications
0.54 miles	Fiberhub SEA1
0.54 miles	Colocation Northwest Westin Downtown
0.54 miles	Astute Hosting Seattle	Astute Hosting's site is in the Westin Building
0.54 miles	DataBank Westin SEA1	The site was a former zColo (Zayo) facility before being acquired in 2020.
0.54 miles	Optic Fusion Westin
0.54 miles	Lunavi Seattle
0.54 miles	Equinix Seattle SE2	Equinix SE2 occupies 4 different floors with in the Westin Building
0.54 miles	Semaphore Seattle	Semaphore is a local provider in Seattle. It was one of the first to provide colocation in the Westin Building.
0.54 miles	Westin Building Seattle	The Westin Building is a Carrier Hotel and the communications hub of the Pacific Northwest. The 34 story building has a conglomeration of colocation providers, carriers, and peering exchanges.
0.54 miles	Verizon: 1000 Denny Way
0.54 miles	Lumen Seattle 1 (1000 Denny Way)	The site is a Level3 Gateway for Seattle.
0.54 miles	H5 Seattle	H5 owns the building and is landlord to the Seattle Level(3) Gateway and a XO data center.
0.59 miles	Digital Realty: 301 Virginia St.	Digital Realty is planning to build a six-story, 58,000-square-foot data center in downtown Seattle, Washington, targeting a site currently occupied by an arts venue and former Bed Bath & Beyond store.
0.61 miles	365 Seattle
0.80 miles	Lumen Seattle 3
1.05 miles	Verizon: Seattle 1100 2nd	Former XO Communications site
8.79 miles	EdgeConneX Seattle
9.00 miles	Digital Fortress South Seattle	Digital Fotress's NOC and data center are located on Sabey's Intergate West Campus
9.00 miles	COLOinSeattle Tukwila
9.01 miles	Sabey Intergate.East	Sabey's Integrate East campus has 3 buildings. Its location is close to both Boeing and SeaTac airfields
9.01 miles	DataBank SeaTAC SEA2	UPS/DC power with battery back-up with 2N configuration
9.14 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1-A
9.14 miles	Sabey Intergate.West	Intergate.West is part of Intergate.Seattle, one of the largest privately owned multi-tenant data center campus on the West coast. Intergate.West provides excellent access to I-5, I-405, Hwy 99, SR-599 and East Marginal Way. Sea-Tac International Airport is only 3 miles away;
9.17 miles	Internap Seattle 3355 120th
9.17 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA1B
9.80 miles	Colocation Northwest Redmond
10.25 miles	Colocation Northwest Belleview
11.32 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle South
13.03 miles	Centersquare: Seattle SEA2	Formerly known as SE4. Cyxtera's SEA2 site in Tukwila Washington was acquired from CenturyLink.
13.88 miles	Lumen Seattle 5 (Bothell)	The site was a former tw telecom facility.
13.96 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
13.96 miles	WORLDLINK Seattle North
14.31 miles	Digital Fortress Lynnwood	In 2021, Landmark Infrastructure acquired the facility, but Digital Fortress operates it.
14.31 miles	Chirisa: Lynnwood, WA	Chirisa Technology Parks (CTP) acquired this standalone facility in Lynnwood, Washington.
14.31 miles	HostPapa SEA1	The ColoCrossing site is located within Bytegrid's datacenter(former NetRiver)
14.43 miles	Equinix Seattle SE4	Equinix SE4 is located 16 miles from SE2 and SE3, which are both located in Downtown Seattle. It is a 1-story building located 8 miles away from the Seattle Tacoma International Airport (SEA).
14.50 miles	QuadraNet Seattle
15.53 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Built in July 2009, The 57,000 square foot Redmond Ridge 1 data center is about eight miles from Microsoft's headquarters campus in Redmond. The site was a cultural shift for Microsoft employees at the time. At the time each development team had their own server labs on the Redmond campus. Today cloud computing is commonplace, but this data center forced the teams to think and develop software in terms of remote computing.
15.55 miles	Centersquare: Lynnwood SEA1	Centersquare's Lynnwood data center is situated 15 miles north of Seattle and 30 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, servicing the northwest of the US.

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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

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