The Bell Telephone Building is Verizon's main central office in downtown Pittsburgh. Built for Bell Telephone of Pennsylvania, the 20-story tower houses the Downtown tandem switch that links Pittsburgh-area exchanges, plus a regional signaling transfer point. Verizon has kept investing in the building's plant, adding raised floor, chillers, cooling units and transformers between 2019 and 2025.
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| 0.04 miles | AT&T: 635 Grant St |
AT&T's 16-story network building at 635 Grant Street in downtown Pittsburgh, owned by Reign Capital since a 2021 sale-leaseback.
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| 0.32 miles | DQE Communications Pittsburgh |
DQE Communications' downtown Pittsburgh colocation room and network node inside the Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue.
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| 0.32 miles | E.V. Bishoff: Pittsburgh Tech Center |
The Pittsburgh Tech Center at 322 Fourth Avenue is E.V. Bishoff's downtown data center and telecom building, home to DQE and several colocation providers.
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| 0.77 miles | DataBank Pittsburgh PIT1 |
DataBank PIT1 is a carrier-neutral colocation data center in Nova Place on Pittsburgh's North Side that hosts the Pittsburgh Internet Exchange.
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| 0.79 miles | Expedient Pittsburgh (North Side) |
Expedient's North Side data center is a colocation and cloud facility in Nova Place, the former Allegheny Center Mall, on Pittsburgh's North Side.
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| 0.82 miles | Verizon: 3 Allegheny Ctr |
A former XO Communications network and colocation node at 3 Allegheny Center on Pittsburgh's North Side; the building now holds apartments.
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| 1.02 miles | H5 Pittsburgh |
H5 Pittsburgh is a colocation data center in Pittsburgh's Strip District that H5 Data Centers bought from vXchnge in 2022.
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| 1.76 miles | Lumen Pittsburgh 1 |
Lumen's Pittsburgh 1 site is a network gateway and colocation building on South 25th Street in Pittsburgh's South Side Flats.
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| 1.85 miles | Cogent: 3126 Liberty Ave |
Cogent's Pittsburgh data center is a colocation facility in the former Sprint network building on Liberty Avenue, at the edge of the Strip District.
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| 2.10 miles | Lumen: Pittsburgh 2 |
Lumen's Pittsburgh 2 site is a network switching and colocation building on Technology Drive in the Pittsburgh Technology Center.
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| 2.50 miles | EdgeConneX Pittsburgh |
EdgeConneX Pittsburgh is an edge colocation data center west of downtown Pittsburgh in a building EdgeConneX owns.
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| 2.54 miles | Verizon: 530 N Neville St |
Verizon's Oakland central office in Pittsburgh holds the host switch that now serves many of the area's former exchanges, plus a regional signaling hub.
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| 2.64 miles | Expedient Pittsburgh (Green Tree) |
Expedient's Green Tree data center is the company's original Pittsburgh colocation facility, in Green Tree Borough south-west of downtown.
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| 3.05 miles | aspStation: Pittsburgh |
aspStation runs a small colocation and cloud data center in its own building on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh's East End, built by IBM in 1990.
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| 3.70 miles | American Tower: Pittsburgh |
American Tower's Pittsburgh edge data center is a small modular colocation facility at a tower site in southern Pittsburgh.
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| 5.36 miles | Consolidated Evergreen |
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's Evergreen Heights data center north of Pittsburgh until about 2025.
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| 5.37 miles | MSA: Evergreen Hights |
MSA's Evergreen Heights data center is a Tier III-designed colocation facility in a hillside bunker in Ross Township, north of Pittsburgh.
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| 6.51 miles | iM Critical: Pittsburgh |
iM Critical's Pittsburgh campus is a modular high-density data center site on Brinton Road at the Wilkinsburg-Edgewood border, east of downtown.
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| 7.45 miles | University of Pittsburgh: NOC |
The University of Pittsburgh's Network Operations Center in the RIDC Park, O'Hara Township, is the university's enterprise data center for IT and research computing.
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| 7.67 miles | Ardent (Northern Data): Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Ardent Data Centers, part of Northern Data, runs an AI-ready colocation data center in Robinson Township, west of Pittsburgh.
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| 7.76 miles | Ascent Data: Pittsburgh |
Ascent Data runs a SOC 2 audited data center for its managed IT and colocation customers in the RIDC Park in O'Hara Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 10.23 miles | DataBank Pittsburgh PIT2 |
DataBank PIT2 is a colocation data center in a former PNC Bank data center in North Fayette Township, west of Pittsburgh, where PNC remains a tenant.
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| 12.69 miles | Dynamo DC: Springdale |
Dynamo DC plans a single large AI data center on the site of the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 13.46 miles | Next Tier Connect: Pittsburgh East |
Next Tier Connect Pittsburgh East is a mission-critical technology campus in the former Westinghouse Energy Center in Monroeville that hosts the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2.
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| 14.39 miles | Consolidated Rockpointe |
Consolidated Communications resold colocation space inside MSA's RockPointe data center in West Deer Township until about 2025.
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| 14.40 miles | MSA: Rockpointe |
MSA's RockPointe data center is the original Tier III colocation facility of Management Science Associates, in West Deer Township north-east of Pittsburgh.
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| 15.16 miles | Henderson Road Data Center |
Hendricks Group proposes a large data center campus with its own gas power plant on a former landfill on Henderson Road in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County.
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| 19.83 miles | TECfusions: New Kensington, PA |
TECfusions' Keystone Connect is an AI data center campus at the former Alcoa Technical Center in Upper Burrell Township, north-east of Pittsburgh.
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