TierPoint
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.
References:
r1. TierPoint Company Page
r2. Source: Data Center Knowledge
r3. Press Release Archive. July 27, 2015
TierPoint Data Center Map
TierPoint Power Growth Over Time
Tierpoint Charleston
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.
TierPoint Bethlehem
TierPoint's Bethlehem data center, opened by PAETEC in 2001 and run by Windstream before TierPoint bought Windstream's data center business in 2015.
TierPoint Andover
The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Windstream's data centers in October 2015. It was originally a PAETEC data center.
TierPoint Charlotte 4
• 2N power design
• Each customer cabinet served by redundant A-Side/B-Side power feeds
TierPoint Kansas City-Lenexa
- Power Density: upto 20kW per cabinet
- 2 Utility transformers protected inside mechanical area/yard
- Dedicated utility transformer for each UPS
TierPoint: TEK Building 4
TierPoint's Allentown data center is Building 4 on the former Bell Labs TekPark campus near Breinigsville, which TierPoint bought in 2025.
TierPoint Omaha Midlands
The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Cosentury in January 2016.
TierPoint Little Rock
The site was acquired when TierPoint bought Windstream in October 2015. It is SSAE 16, SOC 1 Type II compliant
TierPoint Tulsa
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 Lehigh Valley
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 Omaha-Bellevue
- Nearly 100,000 SqFt of space in a reinforced concrete block and brick building
- Expansion capable up to 400,000 SqFt
TierPoint: St Louis-Walnut
- Redundant (A+B) power distribution to each cabinet
- Power metering and utilization reporting by circuit, cabinet and room
TierPoint Jacksonville
The site is a former CxP Data Center. TierPoint acquired CxP in July 2015.
TierPoint North Myers CL2
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 Milwaukee-Burnham
TierPoint runs a Tier III colocation and business-continuity data center at 3701 West Burnham Street on Milwaukee's south side. The site came to TierPoint with its 2016 purchase of Cosentry and offers about 3,600 sq ft of raised floor.
TierPoint Seattle DC1 and DC2
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.
TierPoint Kansas City
- Outside of 500-year flood plain
- 6kW per cabinet capacity
- Newly upgraded 2MVA utility power feed
- 1MW diesel generator for all critical loads
- 2N UPS with redundant battery strings
TierPoint Dallas (Colo4)
TierPoint's Dallas data center is a multi-tenant colocation facility on Irving Boulevard in the Stemmons corridor, opened by Colo4 in 2000.
TierPoint: St. Louis-Locust
TierPoint acquired a building in downtown St. Louis that it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center.
TierPoint: 2315 Millpark
TierPoint completed construction of the facility at 2315 Millpark Drive in the city’s Maryland Heights suburb.
TierPoint: TekPark Expansion
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.
Tierpoint Dallas-Allen
TierPoint's Dallas 2 (DAL2) data center in Allen, Texas, fills a Compass Datacenters building on Allen Commerce Parkway and opened in 2017.
TierPoint Philadelphia
TierPoint's Philadelphia data center sits in the South Philadelphia Navy Yard; it opened in 2010 as the Philadelphia Technology Park.
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.
TierPoint Valley Forge
The site is a former XAND data center before being acquired by TierPoint in 2014
TierPoint Hawthorne
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.
TierPoint Marlborough
- Single story with concrete masonry walls
- Raised floor design supports 150+ watts/sq ft
- Office Space
- Certifications: SSAE 16 SOC1 & SOC2, Type II
TierPoint Charlotte: Rose Lake
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.
Tierpoint Fort Worth
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 Data Center Photos See all
Compass built the data center.
Cosentry acquired the facility from Red Anvil in 2013
Taken during a TechPalooza event in June 2018
TierPoint CEO Jerry Kent, Maryland Lt. Governor Rutherford and other local officials celebrate the grand opening of our newest Maryland facility with a ceremonial ribbon cutting!
Taken during the June 2018 launch of the BWI site
The data center constructed by Compass and launched in March 2018
OKC data center celebration as employees & workers held a topping out ceremony. Each signed a pillar.
Note the electrical infrastructure just North of the facility
813 Pinnacle Drive has been LEED Gold certified by the U.S. Green Building Council! The 34,600 SF building at BWI Tech Park is home to TierPoint’s energy-efficient BWI Data Center, and was designed to achieve an energy cost savings of 45%. During construction, 85% of on-site generated construction waste was diverted from landfills.
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