TierPoint: St Louis-Walnut

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900 Walnut Street

Operational

Fully operational facility

St Louis

Metro
Missouri

State
Midwest US

Region
United States

Country
North America

Region
Americas

Region

TierPoint: St Louis-Walnut

Ownership: TierPoint does not own the building.

This site is leased from Netrality Properties in the 900 Walnut Street (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel building

Total Power

SqFt

Gross Colocation Size

The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Cosentury in January 2016.

Building:

Multi-tenant building, single-use structure
Dedicated spaces for electrical equipment, data halls, carriers/telecom, equipment storage, staging and loading docks
24/7 onsite security and monitoring from geographically disperse Cosentry-owned Operations Centers
Diverse entrance pathways to carrier neutral meet-me room

Power:

6kW per cabinet capacity
Multiple underground utility feeds
N+1 diesel generators with over 24 hours of runtime
N+1 high-efficiency UPS with redundant battery strings
Redundant (A+B) power distribution to each cabinet
Power metering and utilization reporting by circuit, cabinet and room

HVAC:

N+1 continuous cooling systems
Hot/cold aisle alignment and containment options available
Raised access floor for cold air delivery
Ducted hot air return
Set points maintain ASHRAE standards for data centers
Cooling systems and environmental monitoring for temperature, humidity, dew point, airflow, smoke and leaks

Map and Nearby Locations:

900 Walnut Street

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint: St Louis-Walnut

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Lumen St Louis 2
0.00 miles	900 Walnut Street (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel	900 Walnut is a hub for IP traffic and is a principle interconnection point between carriers, service providers and enterprise customers in St Louis.
0.00 miles	Verizon: 900 Walnut
0.28 miles	Contegix St Louis	Contegix's St Louis site is in Neutrality’s 210 Tucker Building.
0.28 miles	Lightedge: St Louis, MO	The LightEdge St. Louis data center was added to LightEdge's portfolio through the acquisition of Connectria, which was finalized in April, 2024.
0.29 miles	210 N Tucker (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel	210 N Tucker and 900 Walnut are directly interconnected by Netrality or one of the many carriers within the facilities
0.30 miles	TierPoint St Louis-Olive	24/7 onsite security and engineering staff
0.34 miles	Lumen St Louis 1
0.50 miles	H5: St Louis
1.09 miles	TierPoint: St. Louis-Locust	TierPoint acquired a building in downtown St. Louis that it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center.
2.25 miles	TriStar: Armory 2	Plans by TriStar Properties to convert the vacant St. Louis Armory into a data center and build a second data center on its parking lot for an estimated $600 million have been paused.
2.33 miles	TriStar: Armory Project	Plans by TriStar Properties to convert the vacant St. Louis Armory into a data center and build a second data center on its parking lot for an estimated $600 million have been paused.
6.36 miles	Ascent St Louis STL1	24' clear heights - flexibility in overhead and/or underfloor infrastructure, cabling and cooling options 40' column spacing - greater space utilization, mobility in infrastructure and cabinet placement
10.09 miles	Connect Data Centers: St Louis, MO	Oppidan Investment Company is constructing a data center on Hanley Road in North Park, with an expected completion date of December 2025.
12.73 miles	StratCap: 2315 Millpark	StratCap acquired a newly-built data center in St. Louis, Missouri that is 100 percent leased to ‘two high credit quality tenants.
12.73 miles	TierPoint: 2315 Millpark	TierPoint completed construction of the facility at 2315 Millpark Drive in the city’s Maryland Heights suburb.
13.01 miles	Verizon: 2020 Westport	The site was formerly known as the XO Maryland Heights
14.29 miles	Centersquare: St Louis SL1	This facility was previously operated by Cyxtera. Centersquare completed the successful acquisition of Cyxtera and Evoque Data Center Solutions in early 2024.
16.73 miles	Cloverleaf: Troy Campus	Cloverleaf Infrastructure has proposed a new data center campus in Troy, Missouri, presenting two distinct design options for the site located northeast of St. Louis.

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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.