The Philadelphia Information Technology Center (PITC) is a core data center of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It occupies the second floor of the VA Regional Office and Insurance Center on Wissahickon Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, a four-story federal building that opened in 1995. The data center runs around the clock. In 2024 VA awarded a $22.5 million contract to replace its emergency generators with four new units, with work running into 2027.
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| 4.02 miles | H5 Philadelphia |
H5 Philadelphia is a colocation data center in Suite 520 on the fifth floor of 1500 Spring Garden Street, a converted former SmithKline headquarters in Center City Philadelphia.
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| 4.03 miles | 365 Philadelphia (Downtown) |
Built 2009 inside 1500 Spring Garden Street, a 1947 former GlaxoSmithKline (SmithKline) corporate headquarters building converted by SunGard Availability Services. PA1 in 365's portfolio.
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| 4.18 miles | Verizon: 1309 Noble St |
Verizon Business network and colocation space in the Lasher Printing Building at 1309 Noble Street, north of Center City Philadelphia.
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| 4.19 miles | Lightower Philadelphia 1309 Noble |
A colocation data center in the historic Lasher Printing Building at 1309 Noble Street, north of Center City Philadelphia, opened by Lightower in 2017.
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| 4.22 miles | 11:11 Systems: Philadelphia |
11:11 Systems acquired this data center (along with other Sungard Availability Services assets) in November 2022.
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| 4.22 miles | Lumen: 401 N Broad |
Lumen's Philadelphia gateway and colocation point inside 401 North Broad Street, the city's main carrier hotel.
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| 4.23 miles | DataBank Philadelphia PHL1 |
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| 4.23 miles | Crown Castle 401 N Broad |
A colocation and interconnection facility inside the 401 North Broad Street carrier hotel in Philadelphia, built up by Lightower.
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| 4.24 miles | Equinix Philadelphia PH1 |
Equinix PH1 is a colocation data center on the 9th floor of 401 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, a Switch and Data site since 1998 that Equinix expanded in 2015.
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| 4.24 miles | 401 North Broad St - Netrality Philadelphia |
Premier core interconnection data center in Philadelphia
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| 4.25 miles | Verizon: 401 Broad | |
| 4.47 miles | 365 Philadelphia (University City) |
Located in downtown Philadelphia at the Penn Medicine Science Center
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| 4.52 miles | Lumen Philadelphia 3 |
Lumen's Philadelphia 3 site is a network switching and colocation point in Lincoln Plaza at 3020 Market Street in University City.
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| 4.64 miles | Verizon: Philadelphia Market CO |
Verizon's Market central office at 900 Race Street is a 1920s Bell Telephone switching building in Center City Philadelphia that houses the city's tandem switch.
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| 4.79 miles | Lumen Philadelphia 4 | |
| 4.80 miles | Verizon: 2401 Locust |
Verizon Business network suites in 2401 Locust Street, a four-story carrier building in Center City Philadelphia that Verizon anchors.
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| 4.81 miles | Hivelocity: Philadelphia PHL1 |
Hivelocity's Philadelphia 1 (PHL1) colocation facility sits in 2401 Locust Street, a four-story carrier building in Center City Philadelphia anchored by Verizon.
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| 4.87 miles | Lumen Philadelphia 2 | |
| 5.07 miles | AT&T: Philadelphia 27th Street |
AT&T's Philadelphia switching center at 500 South 27th Street is a windowless telephone exchange beside the South Street Bridge that handles traffic along the Northeast corridor.
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| 5.52 miles | University of Pennsylvania: Penn Data Center |
The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Data Center at Pennovation Works is a small university data center on the South Bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
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| 7.04 miles | TierPoint: Conshohocken |
A former colocation data center in the Spring Mill Corporate Center near Conshohocken, opened by PAETEC and later run by Windstream and TierPoint.
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| 8.82 miles | TierPoint Philadelphia |
TierPoint's Philadelphia data center sits in the South Philadelphia Navy Yard; it opened in 2010 as the Philadelphia Technology Park.
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| 8.84 miles | MLP Ventures: Plymouth Township |
MLP Ventures proposes a 10-building data center campus at the former Cleveland-Cliffs Conshohocken plate mill in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County.
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| 9.12 miles | DāStor: 411 Swedeland |
DāSTOR's former King of Prussia data center at 411 Swedeland Road, on the old GlaxoSmithKline research campus; DāSTOR now lists the site only as a point of presence.
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| 9.58 miles | MLP Ventures: King of Prussia Campus |
MLP Ventures proposed data centers on five sites in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township; township supervisors denied all five in August 2026.
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| 9.80 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
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| 11.43 miles | NorthPoint: 2000 Kubach Rd |
A two-story former enterprise data center in Northeast Philadelphia's Byberry West Industrial Park, long used by The Vanguard Group and now owned by NorthPoint Development.
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| 12.86 miles | SAP: Newtown Square |
SAP's enterprise data center at its North American headquarters campus on West Chester Pike in Newtown Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
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| 13.03 miles | Verizon: King of Prussia (630 Clark Ave) |
Verizon's single-story data center at 630 Clark Avenue in King of Prussia, Upper Merion Township, owned by Mapletree Industrial Trust and fully leased to Verizon.
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| 14.33 miles | Lumen Norristown | |
| 14.72 miles | Colocation America - Philadelphia DC2 | |
| 14.72 miles | TierPoint Valley Forge |
The site is a former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014
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| 15.23 miles | American Tower: Mount Royal, NJ |
American Tower has officially withdrawn its application for a proposed Edge data center in East Greenwich Township, New Jersey.
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| 15.34 miles | Comcast: Moorestown, NJ |
Built in 2001 and set on 5.1 acres, the three-story building spans 74,240 square feet (6,900 sqm).
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| 18.31 miles | Flexential Philadelphia - Collegeville |
Flexential's Philadelphia-Collegeville data center is a purpose-built two-story facility in Upper Providence Township, built by GlaxoSmithKline and bought by Peak 10 + ViaWest in 2017.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a cabinet-level agency of the United States federal government, headquartered in Washington, D.C. It runs the Veterans Health Administration, the largest integrated health care system in the country, along with the Veterans Benefits Administration and the National Cemetery Administration. VA operates its own core data centers, including the Philadelphia Information Technology Center.
December 20, 2024 Philadelphia
Philadelphia-based investment manager CenterSquare has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against data center firm Centersquare. The lawsuit, filed on August 24, includes allegations of cybersquatting, or using a domain name too similar to a protected trademark with the intent to profit from...
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July 07, 2023 Philadelphia
Wells Fargo has announced that it is exiting its lease at the Philadelphia Plaza building at 101 N. Independence Mall, leaving its office and data center and relocating to offices in Two Logan Square and Commerce Square.According to the company, no layoffs are set to take place, and there will be...
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