TierPoint Acquires Downtown St. Louis Building for Newest Data Center
2024年8月13日 - 11:00PM
TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected IT platform
solutions that power digital transformation initiatives, today
announced its acquisition of a building in downtown St. Louis that
it plans to transform into an enterprise-grade data center through
an investment of up to $150 million. The building seller and
purchase price were not disclosed. A major Fortune 100 company has
already signed as an anchor tenant.
The acquired building, located at 2300 Locust
Street in St. Louis, has 135,800 total square feet. Over the next
year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square
feet of data center production space, supporting up to 80
construction jobs and nine permanent jobs at the facility. The
first phase of the investment plan also calls for 5 Megawatts
(MW) of utility power, including 3 MW of critical load.
Subsequent phases of the investment plan will build out additional
space in the building, scaling the facility over time to 20 MW of
utility power (13 MW of critical load) and supporting additional
construction and permanent jobs.
“This major planned investment is a direct
response to the exceedingly strong demand we’re seeing for data
center services. It also demonstrates our commitment to the region
and faith in downtown St. Louis,” said TierPoint Chairman and
CEO Jerry Kent. “We want to especially thank the team at Ameren
Missouri for their above-and-beyond collaboration in finding a way
to enable the power required for the facility, to serve our anchor
tenant and future customers. As elsewhere, we expect the new
facility will be a landing spot for large-scale, high-density
colocation services required for artificial intelligence and other
compute-intensive, GPU-accelerated workloads.”
“The state of Missouri and the St. Louis region,
in particular, are open for business, and Ameren Missouri is
excited to power growth in the data center industry,” said Mark
Birk, president of Ameren Missouri. “We welcome TierPoint’s
expansion in downtown St. Louis and look forward to its plans to
grow even more in the years to come. Through our Smart Energy Plan,
we’ve been able to attract businesses to the region and help
companies grow while providing reliable energy to meet the power
needs of our customers today and tomorrow.”
“Early in the process of sourcing locations for
a new data center to answer growing demand, it was readily apparent
that the 2300 Locust Street building was an ideal candidate, given
its location, size, structural integrity, access to utility power
and fiber routes,” said TierPoint Senior Vice President, Planning
& Corporate Development Matthew Kent. “Backed by an amazingly
capable data center operations team, our investment plan – when
completed – will give us a premier data center with the second
largest critical load of all our facilities.”
“Missouri has recently seen tremendous data
center activity throughout the state. Our competitive business
climate, along with our robust electric, water, wastewater, and
telecom infrastructure, make Missouri well-suited for large data
center investments. With the explosive growth of artificial
intelligence and cloud computing, it is clear that our time to win
in this sector is now. We are excited to see TierPoint make another
strategic investment in Missouri like this one,” said Subash Alias,
CEO, Missouri Partnership.
“We know that revitalizing Downtown to make it
the safe, vibrant, and beautiful neighborhood at the heart of our
metro will take time. We also know that it will take a new way of
thinking that diversifies the types of businesses and residential
offerings here,” said Kurt Weigle, Chief Downtown Officer for
Greater St. Louis, Inc. “This major investment by TierPoint is a
great example of how we need to rethink space to meet our future
needs.”
The planned facility will join TierPoint’s
portfolio of 40 world-class data centers in more than 20 U.S.
markets, connected by a coast-to-coast 100G network.
About TierPoint TierPoint
(tierpoint.com) is a leading provider of secure, connected IT
platform solutions that power the digital transformation of
thousands of clients, from the public to private sectors, from
small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises. Taking an agnostic
approach to helping clients achieve their most pressing business
objectives, TierPoint is a champion for untangling the complexity
of hybrid, multi-platform approaches to IT infrastructure, drawing
on a comprehensive portfolio of services, from public to
multitenant and private cloud, from colocation to disaster
recovery, security, and more. TierPoint also has one of the largest
and most geographically diversified U.S. footprints, with dozens of
world-class, cloud-ready data centers in 20 markets, connected by a
coast-to-coast network.
Contact: Pete Abel,
314-550-7080, Pete.Abel@tierpoint.com