TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2

140 4th Ave N. Suite 360

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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

Network Carriers:

AT&T
Bell Canada
Century Link (Qwest)
Comcast
Cogent
Frontier
Integra
Internap
Level (3)
Spectrum
TW Telecom
Verizon
XO Communications
Zayo

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140 4th Ave N. Suite 360
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0.00 miles Evocative Seattle SEA1
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.
0.12 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 Equinix Seattle SE2
Equinix SE2 occupies 4 different floors with in the Westin Building
0.54 miles Optic Fusion Westin
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 Lunavi Seattle
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 XO: 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.
0.61 miles 365 Seattle
0.80 miles Lumen Seattle 3
1.05 miles XO Seattle 1100 2nd
8.79 miles EdgeConneX Seattle
9.00 miles COLOinSeattle Tukwila
9.00 miles Digital Fortress South Seattle
Digital Fotress's NOC and data center are located on Sabey's Intergate West Campus
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 Cyxtera 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 Cyxtera Seattle SEA1B
9.17 miles Internap Seattle 3355 120th
9.80 miles Colocation Northwest Redmond
10.25 miles Colocation Northwest Belleview
11.32 miles WORLDLINK Seattle South
13.03 miles Cyxtera 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 WORLDLINK Seattle North
13.96 miles Microsoft Canyon Park
14.31 miles Digital Fortress Lynnwood
14.31 miles ColoCrossing 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 Microsoft Redmond Ridge
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 Evoque Lynnwood SE1
Lynnwood is a city in Snohomish County, in the state of Washington, and is located near the junction of Interstate 5 and 405. Lynnwood accommodates easy access to the greater Seattle area.

TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2 Data Center Photos

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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