ST. LOUIS – TierPoint, an IT solutions company, plans to transform a Downtown St. Louis building into a $150 million data center.
TierPoint has acquired a building at 2300 Locust with the vision of an “enterprise-grade” data center, according to a news release from Tuesday.
Leaders say that a major Fortune 100 company has already signed as an anchor tenant, though did not disclose the expected tenant.
The first phase of investment calls for crews to build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space. Much of the first phase is planned for next year. The initial phase will support up to 80 construction jobs and nine permanent jobs at the facility, according to the news release.
Other phases would lead to building out additional space, scaling the facility over time from 5W to 20 MW of utility power, 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 Jerry Kent, Chairman and CEO of TierPoint. “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 planned St. Louis facility would join TierPoint’s portfolio of 40 data centers in more than 20 U.S. markets. Ameren Missouri has collaborated with leaders to power the facility.
