CoreSite, a subsidiary of
American Tower, owns carrier-neutral
data center
A data center (American English) or data centre (British English)See spelling differences. is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunic ...
s and provides
colocation and
peering services to prolific spammers.
As of June 24, 2022 the company owned 27 operating data center facilities in 10 markets comprising over 4.6 million net rentable square feet. The properties are in
Boston,
Chicago,
Denver,
Los Angeles,
Miami,
New York City,
Northern Virginia,
San Francisco/
San Jose, California,
Santa Clara, California,
Atlanta, Georgia,
Orlando, Florida
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...
and the
Washington, D.C. areas.
[ The company has over 1,350 customers including enterprises, network operators, cloud providers, and supporting service providers.][
]
History
The company was founded in 2001 as CRG West at two of the West coast's original carrier hotels: Market Post Tower and One Wilshire.
In August 2005, the company opened a facility in Washington, D.C.
In May 2007, the company acquired properties in Boston and Chicago. It also purchased a tract of land in Santa Clara, with the intent of developing a 50-megawatt data center Coronado campus there.[
In September 2010, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.
In April 2012, the company acquired Comfluent and entered the Denver market.
In August 2012, Coresite became the first AMS-IX enabled data center operator in North America.
In July 2016, Tom Ray, the chief executive officer of the company, retired and was replaced by Paul Szurek, lead independent director.
In August 2016, the company announced the $60 million acquisition of the 22-acre Sunrise Technology Park from ]Brookfield Office Properties
Brookfield Properties is a North American subsidiary of Commercial property, commercial real estate company Brookfield Property Partners, which itself is a subsidiary of Alternative investment, alternative asset management company Brookfield Ass ...
.
In December 2021, the company was acquired by American Tower.
See also
* List of Internet exchange points
References
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2001 establishments in Colorado
2010 initial public offerings
2021 mergers and acquisitions
American corporate subsidiaries
Companies based in Denver
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Data centers
Financial services companies established in 2001
Real estate companies established in 2001