TierPoint Valley Forge

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1000 Adams Ave

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Fully operational facility

TierPoint Valley Forge

Short Code: VFO

Floors: 3

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Quick Facts:

A former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014
SSAE 16 SOC1 & SOC2, Type II
Three story with steel and metal frame construction
Raised floor design supports up to 250 watts/sq ft
Up to 250 watts per square foot raised floor

Map and Nearby Locations:

1000 Adams Ave

TierPoint Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of TierPoint Valley Forge

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Colocation America - Philadelphia DC2
0.75 miles	Lumen Norristown
3.61 miles	GSK Phoenixville
3.61 miles	Flexential Philadelphia - Collegeville
4.92 miles	DāStor: 3400 Horizon	The facility is network neutral with multiple carriers in place and a redundant fiber ring that connects to 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia
5.64 miles	DāStor: 411 Swedeland	This site is designed to support Life Science and Technology Companies.
7.73 miles	Windstream Conshohocken
8.85 miles	Pennhurst Expansion
8.85 miles	Pennhurst Data Center	Spanning approximately 125 acres, the submitted preliminary plan outlines five two-story data center buildings, totaling over 1.3 million square feet, alongside a dedicated five-acre electrical substation.
10.47 miles	1547: Chester County, PA
11.43 miles	Project Laurel	MCD 7 LLC’s Project Laurel is a high-density, AI-ready data center campus designed to leverage the specialized infrastructure of Limerick Township.
11.62 miles	Constellation Energy: East Coventry	The proposed Constellation Energy Data Center in East Coventry Township is a massive planned campus intended to span five parcels (approximately 100 acres).
11.67 miles	Comcast National Data Center: East Goshen
16.48 miles	365 Philadelphia (University City)	Located in downtown Philadelphia at the Penn Medicine Science Center
17.03 miles	Lumen Philadelphia 3
17.40 miles	Verizon: 2401 Locust	Former XO Communications facility
17.40 miles	Quonix - Philadelphia
17.40 miles	Lumen Philadelphia 4
17.49 miles	365 Philadelphia (Downtown)	The site is located in the Penn Medicine Science Center, is part of the West Philadelphia neighborhood known as University City
17.51 miles	H5 Philadelphia
17.72 miles	Verizon: 401 Broad
17.73 miles	Lightower Philadelphia 1309 Noble
17.73 miles	11:11 Systems: Philadelphia	11:11 Systems acquired this data center (along with other Sungard Availability Services assets) in November 2022.
17.75 miles	DataBank Philadelphia PHL1
17.75 miles	Crown Castle 401 N Broad
17.75 miles	Equinix Philadelphia PH1
17.75 miles	Lumen: 401 N Broad
17.75 miles	401 North Broad St - Netrality Philadelphia	Premier core interconnection data center in Philadelphia
18.43 miles	Lumen Philadelphia 2

TierPoint Valley Forge Data Center Photos (See all)

Valley Forge Expansion Ceremony in June 2015

Source: Baxtel

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.