TierPoint acquires downtown St. Louis building for newest data center
Major Fortune 100 company already signed as anchor tenant for the building
TierPoint, a leading provider of secure, connected IT platform solutions that power digital transformation initiatives, recently announced it acquired 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.
After acquiring a single data center in Dallas in 2010, TierPoint grew both organically and through a series of other acquisitions, including Xand in 2014, Hosted Solutions in 2015 and Cosentry in 2016.
The acquired building, located at 2300 Locust St. in St. Louis, contains 135,800 total square feet. Over the next year, the first phase of investment will include the build out of 22,600 square feet of data center production space, supporting up to 80 construction jobs and nine permanent jobs at the facility.
“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.”
From an energy perspective, the first phase of the investment plan calls for 5 Megawatts (MW) of 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 power and supporting additional construction and permanent jobs.
“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.”
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. TierPoint expects the first phase of the project to be completed in the second half of 2025. To learn more about the company, please visit tierpoint.com.