Fiber firm Cogent Communications has converted another nine Sprint switch sites to colocation data centers, and is exploring selling a large portion of its newly refurbished data center capacity on a wholesale basis.
T-Mobile sold its Wireline business to Cogent Communications for just $1 in September 2022. The deal included 19,000 long-haul route miles and 1,300 metro route miles of fiber, and a significant real estate footprint totaling 482 technical spaces and switch sites. More than 40 of those sites were data centers totaling some 400,000 sq ft (37,160 sqm) of space.
In total, 43 of the 95 current Cogent colocation facilities are buildings acquired through the Sprint acquisition and converted into data centers. The converted sites comprise more than 1.8 million square feet of floor space and offer 169MW. The company also noted it now aims to convert 48 Sprint sites, rather than the original 45. The company aims to have them all converted and fully operational and marketable by the end of Q2 2025.
