Iron Mountain has opened the first of four planned data centers in Northern Virginia part of a total capital expenditure of $350 million put towards expanding the company’s footprint in the region.
Iron Mountain's new data center is a 165,000 square-foot, 10.5-megawatt multi-tenant and cloud facility located in Prince William County. Northern Virginia marks Iron Mountain's fifth U.S. data center market, joining Boston, Denver, Kansas City and Western Pennsylvania.
Iron Mountain invested over $80 million in the first phase of this data center, which opens as an Uptime Institute Tier III certified facility for design and construction. And, like other Iron Mountain data center facilities, this new data center is designed to serve organizations with exacting service delivery and comprehensive compliance requirements, and supports key standards.
The new data center also opens with more than half of its first phase capacity pre-leased, including customers like Virtustream, a Dell Technologies business.
With two additional phases to come in this first data center and plans to develop three other facilities on the campus, Iron Mountain's total investment for the site is expected to be over $350 million. The 83-acre campus design ensures efficient long-term customer scalability for a total of 60 megawatts. Iron Mountain is participating in Virginia's data center tax program which helps provide long-term visibility into operating costs and lower total costs to customers.
