TierPoint, a Saint Louis-based data center operator, is adding a 70,000 square foot building to their 15-acre campus in northwest Oklahoma City.

An $8 million building permit has been issued and construction has commenced adjacent to their existing 20,000 square foot facility that opened in 2009.

The expansion is due to increased demand for off-site and contingency data centers. TierPoint's Oklahoma City clients include American Energy Partners and BancFirst.

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TierPoint is a leading provider of cloud, colocation and managed services designed to help organizations improve business performance and manage risk. With corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO, TierPoint operates 141,000 square feet of raised floor data center space across multiple state-of-the-art facilities located in Baltimore, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia Spokane, Seattle and Tulsa.



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A lot of people don't realize that this is Perimeter. Perimeter was bought out by TierPoint (merge, or whatever you want to call it). These plans are part of the masterplan Perimeter developed years ago as they were making their move out of their first structure on the same property (we're talking 2006 or 2007 or something when the chatter started). It's interesting to see because of the large amount of available data center/co-lo space in OKC. There are quite a few players in the game, and they all seem to be doing very well. As more companies push (or are pushed by clients) to move out of office-based datacenters, you're seeing a lot more traction on the co-lo platform here. And most of the vendors in OKC, also have a presence in Tulsa so each can provide a DR site to the other.

The major issue with a lot of these is contiguous space availability for a cage. There's plenty room for the average company, but the big company footprints are finding it more difficult to get in somewhere (and it also not be crazy expensive). That's where these new construction sites come in to play (like Rack59) because they immediately have room for a 16 rack cage or whatever. It's exciting to see!

Should a data center be disclosing who their clients are? Just seems strange that for something secure intense like data centers, that they would say they have AEP and Bancfirst as clients.

Should a data center be disclosing who their clients are? Just seems strange that for something secure intense like data centers, that they would say they have AEP and Bancfirst as clients.

When I spoke to TierPoint, they made it a specific point to get the approval of those two companies before revealing them to me.

They have several of their clients listed on their website, one of which is AEP.

Keep in mind that they don't necessarily host a company's servers...

Sometimes they are merely a contingency site in case a company's data center is out of commission.

Any of these companies would ask the customer first before throwing their name out anywhere. Same goes for any software/service/etc....they're going to ask before they use you as a reference. Some prefer to stay hidden and unknown, others don't care and can use it as a selling point to say "see, we're diligent because we're at X location".

They have several of their clients listed on their website, one of which is AEP.

Which AEP?

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A good friend of mine works over there. They had an open house last week... Massive and very impressive facility. An amazing asset for OKC.

I toured their new facility during the open house. At a prior employer of mine we housed systems in their other, smaller facility when they were called Perimeter. This new place is MASSIVE! There's nothing like the sight of a shiney new empty datacenter - its like a blank palette to play with. :D