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Iron Mountain chooses Prince William for new data center

Prince William County is getting another data center.

States a press release:

Iron Mountain Information Management, LLC, intends to establish its data center campus on 83 acres at 11650 Hayden Road, Manassas, VA 20109. The campus will be built in phases and is currently planned for three buildings totaling 375,000 square feet, with future growth capacity. The site is a short distance from a new power substation and switching station, allowing for underground power distribution. This creates an additional layer of security for tenants while creating a more aesthetically pleasing environment. Iron Mountain intends to open the first building on the campus in spring 2017.

The $350 million facilities will be used by Iron Mountain’s clients in government and private business. The new center will employ 25 people with an average annual salary of $100,000.

This is Iron Mountian’s first data center in the Washington, D.C area. The company operates centers in 37 countries.

More about the company was provided to us in a press release:

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and information management services. The company’s real estate network of more than 69 million square feet across more than 1,100 facilities in 37 countries allows it to serve customers around the world. And its solutions for records management, data management, document management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic files and medical data.

Prince William County boasts 2.3 million square feet in data center space.