Iron Mountain Plans Major Expansion of Manassas Data Center

MANASSAS, VA — Iron Mountain plans to expand its Manassas data center on Wellington Road to support increasing demand from both new and existing customers. The expansion, known as VA-2, will cost $225 million. The first phase of VA-2 is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2020. At full build-out of VA-2, Iron Mountain will employ about 50 people at the campus.

Iron Mountain, a Boston-based data center operator, opened its first building at the Manassas campus, known as VA-1, in September 2017. The facility is 165,000 square feet in size.

"Iron Mountain is a change agent in the data center world,” Christina Winn, executive director of the Prince William County Economic Development Department, said Dec. 9 in a statement. "In its PW County Campus, the Data Center leader has made space for data center customers to expand their footprint and provide office and storage space for more than 100 workers. This data center model brings more jobs into Prince William County and is beneficial for the industry, taxpayers, and commuters."

Nearly 100 of Iron Mountain's customers and vendors currently work out of the phase one building. Another 50 will work in phase two. Iron Mountain expects this growth trend to continue with more than double the amount of office and storage space available to its customers at the new building.

The existing 83-acre Manassas campus was Iron Mountain's first facility in Northern Virginia and its fifth U.S. data center, in addition to facilities in Boston, Denver, Kansas City and western Pennsylvania. Iron Mountain has a total of more than 1,450 facilities in 50 countries.

When it first chose Manassas for a data center, Iron Mountain said it explored several U.S. locations and decided Prince William County was the one. "We are excited to be expanding our presence in the largest data center market in the world, and at the same time continuing our commitment to economic development in the dynamic Prince William County," Mark Kidd, executive vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Data Centers, said in the Dec. 9 statement.