Iron Mountain has broken ground on a 30,000 square foot data center in Northborough. The plan for the project is shown here in a rendering.
Kyle Alspach
Technology Editor- Boston Business Journal
Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) said Tuesday it has begun construction on a 30,000-square-foot data center in Northborough, Mass., to serve companies in the Boston region.
The Boston Data Center is scheduled to open in early 2014, and will add to existing records storage centers the company maintains in Northborough, Boston-based Iron Mountain said.
The center will aim to serve organizations which are highly-regulated — which, in the Greater Boston area, are “underserved in terms of access to area data centers capable of meeting their unique needs,” Iron Mountain said in a news release.
The center aims to be resistant to natural disaster and highly energy efficient, and will be the region’s only LEED Gold certified facility, Iron Mountain said.
Working with data storage wholesaler Compass Datacenters, Iron Mountain said it plans to build three “data halls” — each of them providing 10,000 square feet of space.
The data center will be located at 171 Bearfoot Road in Northborough. An Iron Mountain spokesman declined to reveal the project cost. But the company applied for a building permit indicating the building will cost $4.8 million, according to the Northborough Building Department.
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