American Tower open Pittsburgh Edge Facility

American Tower has announced it has opened a new Edge colocation facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

It's a small edge facility located to the south of the city and below Mount Oliver, the 360 square foot Edge facility offers eight customer cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three full cabinets, accommodating up to 23 customers.

ATC Press Release on March 30th 2021:

PITTSBURGH – Businesses across the Greater Pittsburgh area now have
access to the American Tower (NYSE: AMT) Edge Data Center solution. American Tower
announces today that its newest edge collocation facility in Pittsburgh is tenant ready. American
Tower strategically selected the second-largest city in Pennsylvania for the facility, which
provides additional connectivity options to the variety of Pittsburgh-based industries, including
manufacturing, healthcare, information technology, and more.

“The vast combination of industries in the Pittsburgh area that require increased network
elasticity and lower latency make our newest facility an ideal location for an Edge Data Center,”
says Whitney Pesot, Product Manager, U.S. Innovation for American Tower. “The increasing use
of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices within the manufacturing and healthcare industries is
creating more demand for fast connectivity closer to the edge. The city’s emerging artificial
intelligence and robotics industry will also heavily rely on the low-latency environment edge
facilities provide.”

The 360-square-foot American Tower Edge Data Center in Pittsburgh offers eight customer
cabinets, 20 quarter-cabinet lockers, and three full cabinets, accommodating up to 23
customers. The multitenant Edge Data Center is centrally located to give customers convenient
access to their IT infrastructure. The facility in Pittsburgh expands the American Tower portfolio
to six Edge Data Centers strategically located across the nation.

American Tower Edge Data Centers offer critical power distribution, monitoring, security, and
cooling in an all-in-one edge solution. Utilizing the ground space of the Company’s existing
tower infrastructure, American Tower can develop and scale new facilities quickly to meet
market demand, creating an improved network architecture closer to where data is used and
generated. All locations are backed by a 24/7/365 Network Operations Center and offer
solutions that allow companies to scale with ease