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 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]
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.
r1. TierPoint Company Page
r2. Source: Data Center Knowledge
r3. Press Release Archive. July 27, 2015
Located on the Hood Park campus, TierPoint’s Charlestown data center is a short walk from the Sullivan Square MBTA station located near I-93.
The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Windstream's data centers in October 2015. It was originally a PAETEC data center.
US data center operator TierPoint has secured $240 million in new asset-backed securities (ABS) funding and acquired its largest leased site in Pennsylvania, known as TekPark.
• 2N power design
• Each customer cabinet served by redundant A-Side/B-Side power feeds
The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Cosentury in January 2016.
The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Windstream in October 2015. It is SSAE 16, SOC 1 Type II compliant
Located in the historic Brady district north of downtown, TierPoint’s Tulsa data center is the largest carrier-neutral telecommunications space in the area.
TierPoint’s Lehigh Valley facility in Bethlehem, is located along the Lehigh Valley Thruway. In addition to the data center, the facility has office space and/or disaster recovery suites.
TierPoint's marketing describes two data centers in Seattle, but in reality, they are in the same building. The site was formerly operated by Adhost before being acquired by TierPoint in 2012.
The site is a former CxP Data Center. TierPoint acquired CxP in July 2015.
TierPoint’s Charlotte-North Myers facility is one of seven interconnected facilities in North Carolina providing Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), cloud services, managed services and more.
TierPoint's Dallas-Fort Worth data center occupies the former Alliance Gateway / AIG facility on Independence Parkway in north Fort Worth. The site is built for high-density AI and HPC workloads, with direct-to-chip liquid cooling in production alongside air and chilled-water cooling. TierPoint is expanding the utility supply to the site and has room for further phases along the existing building line.
TierPoint acquired a building in downtown St. Louis that it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center.
The site is a former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014
TierPoint completed construction of the facility at 2315 Millpark Drive in the city’s Maryland Heights suburb.
The site, located in the South Philadelphia Navy Yard, is former XAND data center that was acquired by TierPoint in 2014
The site was formerly operated by Colo4 before being acquired by TierPoint in 2010
The site was formerly operated by XAND as the "Westchester" data center before the acquisition by TierPoint. HW1 and HW2 share a 91-acre campus.
This facility is audited under SSAE 18 SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS*, GLBA and HIPAA standards annually and is ITAR and EU-US Privacy Shield registered.
October 19, 2026 New York
Alcoa Corporation has agreed to sell parts of its former Massena East smelter in upstate New York to an unnamed data center developer for up to $315 million. The buyer was not disclosed, though cryptominer NYDIG has previously been linked to the site, where an affiliate has filed plans for a data...
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October 13, 2026 Dallas
Texas now has more data center capacity operating and under construction than Virginia. Baxtel tracks 28.3 GW built or building in Texas, against 17.8 GW in Virginia. On capacity already online, Virginia still leads, 12.3 GW to 11.1 GW. If projects scheduled for this year deliver on time, Texas...
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October 12, 2026 Milwaukee
Microsoft has cut the number of buildings planned for the 791-acre Durand Avenue portion of its Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, data center campus to seven from nine, reducing the parcel's projected taxable value by about 24 percent, or nearly $1.9 billion, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported on...
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August 10, 2026 Nashville
Nashville's Metro Council voted 27 to 5 on August 4 to authorize the acquisition of a proposed DC BLOX data center site beside the Nashville Zoo. The vote allows Metro Nashville to negotiate for the 23.49-acre DC BLOX Nashville Campus or pursue eminent domain if the parties cannot agree. The...
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August 07, 2026 Dallas
PowerHouse Data Centers is planning a new campus near Fort Worth, Texas. First reported by NBC, engineering firm Kimley-Horn has filed plans for a data center on about 88 acres in Westlake, north of Fort Worth. The proposed site is at 13580 Denton Highway, near US Highway 377 and Westport...
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July 09, 2026 Kansas
A 20MW data center project could be developed in Parsons, Kansas, after the city approved a purchase option agreement with HyperDataGrid. The company is seeking to acquire around 20 acres in Tolen Creek Industrial Park for the proposed facility. The agreement allows HyperDataGrid to complete due...
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Jan 05, 2026 Eric Bell Dallas
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