Sentinel Announces $3B+ of Ongoing Development
Sentinel Data Centers Announces over $3 Billion in New Developments Across New Jersey and Virginia Four new projects attest to Sentinel’s 23-year track record of turn-key delivery for the market’s most quality-sensitive hyperscale and enterprise end users. New York, NY — September 1st, 2025 — Sentinel Data Centers, LLC (“Sentinel”) today announced four new large-scale […]
Rethinking Redundancy: Is Culture Part of the Problem?
PHOENIX – Delivering uptime has always been the prime directive for data centers. The industry was created to ensure that mission-critical applications never go offline. That goal has typically been achieved through layers of redundant electrical infrastructure, including uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems and emergency backup generators. But cloud computing is bringing change to how companies […]
Sentinel Data Centers and MCNC Partner to Extend Fiber, Collocation Services to NC-1 Facility in Durham
DURHAM, N.C. – April 22, 2014 —Sentinel Data Centers, a leading enterprise data center provider, and MCNC, the technology non-profit that builds, owns, and operates a leading-edge broadband infrastructure for North Carolina’s research, education, and non-profit health care community, today announced a broad ranging collaboration through which MCNC has extended fiber on the North Carolina Research […]
Sentinel Data Centers continues expansion in Virginia, purchases 280 acres in Loudoun County
A New York-based data center company is continuing its expansion into the commonwealth after acquiring prime space at Washington Dulles Gateway. Sentinel Data Centers has acquired the 280 acres for $82.5 million with the assistance of real estate and investment management services firm JLL. The deal equates to $589,000 per usable acre. The property is […]
Sentinel Data Centers Bags One Of Largest Pieces-Of-Land Remaining In Northern Virginia For Data Centre Development
Site is ready for the construction of a mega data centre campus close to facilities run by some of the world’s largest cloud and colocation names. New York-based services provider Sentinel Data Centers has invested $82.5m in the acquisition of a 280-acre piece-of-land in Dulles, Northern Virginia. The Washington Dulles Gateway parcel traded for $589,000 […]
Sentinel Data Centers Buys Massive Parcel in Metro DC
JLL has arranged the sale of the 280-acre Washington Dulles Gateway site in Northern Virginia, working on behalf of a private partnership that had controlled the property for decades. In an $82.5 million deal, Sentinel Data Centers has purchased the 280-acre Washington Dulles Gateway site in Loudoun County, Va. JLL, which represented the sellers, announced […]
AOL’s Sterling sell-off continues as the Loudoun data center boom rolls on
The proposal comes as AOL continues to shed its Northern Virginia land holdings following its $4.4 billion acquisition by Verizon Communications Inc. Read the full article here.
Sentinel Data Centers Completes Sale of Two Facilities to CyrusOne
NEW YORK, NY – Sentinel Data Centers today confirmed that it has completed its previously announced $490 million sale of two facilities to CyrusOne Inc. The two multi-tenant data centers included in the transaction are located in Somerset, NJ and Durham, NC. Sentinel will retain the remainder of its portfolio, which includes single-tenant data centers in […]
HFN Completes Network Expansion into Sentinel’s NJ-1 Facility
SOMERSET, NJ – Sentinel Data Centers announced today the availability of Hudson Fiber Network (HFN), a leading US-based transport, IP and network provider specializing in network solutions for the financial and enterprise communities, at its 430,000 square foot Somerset, NJ facility. “In partnering with best-in-class carriers like HFN, our NJ-1 facility continues to expand as the […]
New Jersey’s Best Kept Secret: Low-Cost Power
New Jersey is often perceived to be a high power cost location relative to mid-Atlantic locations such as Northern Virginia. While historically this notion was rooted in fact, massive structural changes in the market for natural gas commencing in 2008 have upended this reality. Electric rates in New Jersey’s PJM power pool are heavily influenced by […]
Sentinel Announces Significant Pre-Leasing of NC-1 Facility Expansion
Sentinel Data Centers announced today it has pre-leased 25% of its 100,000 square foot / 10MW “Phase II” expansion at its NC-1 facility in Durham, NC. “Pre-leasing a quarter of our Phase II expansion speaks to the market’s appreciation for highest quality, ultra-flexible solutions coupled with a TCO profile among the best nationally,” says Todd […]
Sentinel Announces Significant Leasing of Transmission+ Product
NEW YORK, NY — Sentinel Data Centers, a leading owner, developer and operator of multi-tenant, and build-to-suit enterprise-grade data centers, announced today that it has recently leased and implemented over five megawatts of Transmission+, a high-availability, infrastructure-light power solution, to multiple tenants within its Somerset, NJ and Durham, NC facilities. “Our leasing success with Transmission+ is […]
Sentinel Begins “Phase II” Expansion of NC-1 Facility
DURHAM, NC – Sentinel announced today that it will significantly expand its NC-1 facility in Durham, NC building out 120,000 gross square feet, 50,000 square feet of “white space” and up to 10 megawatts of critical load. “This expansion marks another significant milestone for our NC-1 facility,” says Todd Aaron, Co-Founder of Sentinel Data Centers. “The […]
Sentinel Data Centers Earns Five New Compliance Standards
New York, NY – Sentinel Data Centers announced today that its wholesale colocation facilities in Somerset, NJ and Durham, NC achieved compliance with HIPPA, FISMA (High), FedRAMP, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards. “Our roster of sophisticated large enterprise tenants has been under increasing regulatory pressure,” says Josh Rabina, Co-Founder at Sentinel Data Centers. “We have […]
Data Center Uptime: The Devil’s in the Details
Winter Storm Jonas pounded the east coast this past weekend with up to three feet of snow and 60-80 mile per hour winds. Widespread power outages affected a large swath of the area with hundreds of thousands impacted in North Carolina and the mid-Atlantic, including numerous data centers. Storms like these are why we sweat […]
Sentinel Data Centers Qualifies for NC Tax Incentive
Raleigh, NC – Sentinel Data Centers, a leading owner, developer and operator of enterprise-grade colocation data centers, announced today that its 420,000 square foot facility in Durham, North Carolina, has obtained formal qualification for North Carolina’s recently passed data center tax incentive under the Data Center Infrastructure Act. As a result, Sentinel’s new and existing […]
Overbuilt & Overbought?: Current Trends in Data Center Provisioning
Sentinel’s Co-Founder Josh Rabina presented his keynote presentation “Overbuilt & Overbought” at NANOG 65 in Montreal, Canada. The presentation touched upon on the current data center trends as they relate to multi-tier deployments and how overprovisioning has become one of single largest cost factors impacting the industry today. SEE ALSO: Sentinel Discusses Carrier Neutral Model, No […]
The Elephant in the Room: Quantifying the Value of Data Center Flexibility
Among the most important inputs into a data center TCO analysis is a data center capacity demand forecast, ideally measured in kilowatts. Yet accurately forecasting data center capacity requirements beyond a 12-24 month horizon is virtually impossible. So what happens when you’re tasked with comparing the 10-year TCO of two data center alternatives and face […]
Cross River Fiber Completes Strategic Build-Out into Sentinel Data Centers’ NJ-1 Facility
Sentinel Data Centers, a leading owner, developer and operator of wholesale colocation data centers, announced today the availability of Cross River Fiber, a leading national provider of network services, at its 430,000 square foot Somerset, NJ facility. “Cross River Fiber marks another strong regional carrier added to our already diverse and robust carrier roster,” said […]
Cobbler a la Mode – North Carolina’s Delicious New Data Center Incentive Program
Not surprisingly, the recent passage of North Carolina’s highly attractive data center tax incentives bill has prompted renewed attention to the state as an optimal locale for data center development. But the reality is, the climate in N.C. has been ripe for data center development for some time. Over the past several years, big name companies such […]
Sentinel Data Centers’ NC-1 Facility to Seek Qualification for New North Carolina Tax Incentive
Sentinel Data Centers announced today it expects its 420,000 square foot facility in Durham, North Carolina to qualify for the new sales tax incentives recently passed under the North Carolina Data Center Infrastructure Act. Upon obtaining formal qualification, Sentinel’s tenants, regardless of size, will realize previously unavailable sales tax exemptions on both IT and related […]
NCTA Appoints Sentinel Data Centers’ Brian Baker to Board of Directors
Raleigh, NC — August 20, 2015 – North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA), a non-profit association focused on advancing North Carolina’s technology industry, announced today that Brian Baker, Vice President of Business Development, Southeast, at Sentinel Data Centers will be joining its board of directors for a 2 year term. With over 750 member companies, organizations […]
NCMCO Partners with Academic and Data Center Industry Leaders to Launch Nation’s First Mission Critical Operations Degree
Raleigh, NC – August 19, 2015 – The National Consortium for Mission Critical Operations (NCMCO), led by Cleveland Community College in Shelby, North Carolina, announced today the launch of the nation’s first Mission Critical Operations concentration offered to undergraduate students. Students who graduate from the 2-year program will receive an Associate in Applied Science Degree in […]
Sentinel Data Centers Completes North Carolina’s First Dedicated Substation for a Multi-Tenant Facility
Announced today, Sentinel Data Centers has brought online North Carolina’s first dedicated transmission voltage substation for use by a multi-tenant data center. Engineered and constructed similarly to Sentinel’s NJ-1 69kV substation in the NY/NJ region, Sentinel NC-1’s 100kV substation can support up to 50MW of capacity in a 2N configuration, with redundant service via separate […]
Sentinel Discusses Carrier Neutral Model, No Cross Connect Fees & More at Telecom Exchange NYC
Sentinel Data Centers recently attended the Telecom “anti-trade” Exchange in New York City. Held at the Cipriani Wall Street, this premier industry event was well attended with over 400 attendees onsite. During this time, TMC’s Global Editorial Director, Erik Linask, interviewed Sentinel Data Center’s Nelson Frye, Sr. Director of Business Development. To kick off the […]
Sentinel Vice President Brian Baker Leads AFCOM NC Event on Cloud Computing
On Thursday June 25, AFCOM North Carolina hosted its Q2 education symposium on “Navigating the Cloud” at Brier Creek Country Club in Raleigh, NC. Lead by Sentinel’s VP of Business Development and AFCOM NC Chapter President, Brian Baker, the day-long education symposium explored cloud computing best practices with subject matter experts from SAS, IBM, VelcoCloud […]
A Place of Your Own: “Wholesale Colocation” Defined
Imagine if someone had offered you the following proposition back in your early 20s: swap your roommate-filled studio apartment for a luxury custom home and save on monthly rent. Too good to be true, right? We believe that for large footprint data center users, wholesale colocation currently offers an analogous value proposition. Yet, many are […]
IT vs. Facilities: Beware of the “Streetlight Effect” in Data Center Due Diligence
While the cultural divide between IT and Facilities teams has been gradually closing, it is far from entirely gone. With respect to data center and colocation procurement, this cultural divide can, at times, undermine good decision making. In order to optimize data center planning decisions and overcome this divide, it is critical for organizations to […]
Sentinel Pitches Lower-Reliability Data Center Service at Lower Cost
Sentinel Data Centers said it is now offering customers a data center service option that does not include as much backup infrastructure equipment as its traditional high-availability design for applications with lower reliability needs than mission-critical applications. The service, called Transmission+, comes at a lower price point than the full high-reliability option. But it doesn’t […]
Sentinel Adds to Product Portfolio with Infrastructure-Light Colocation Offering
Sentinel Data Centers announced today that it has introduced Transmission+, a new product that offers availability levels approaching those of traditional best-in-class colocation with substantially less infrastructure and recurring cost. Transmission+ disrupts the traditional cost/resiliency paradigm by leveraging the high-voltage, transmission-quality, 2N utility distribution topologies at each of Sentinel’s data center campuses. SEE ALSO: Cross River […]
Sentinel Data Centers to Double Size of NJ-1 Facility
SOMERSET, NJ — October 6, 2014 – Sentinel Data Centers today announced that it will significantly expand its NJ-1 facility in Somerset, New Jersey, adding up to 200,000 gross square feet and 20 megawatts of critical load. The “Phase III” expansion comes as the existing 230,000 square foot NJ-1 facility nears capacity and demand for Sentinel’s […]
Sentinel Kicks Off Massive New Jersey Expansion
Sentinel Data Centers announced a plan to expand its already massive New Jersey data center in a project to add 200,000 square feet and 20 megawatts of power capacity. This will be a third phase of expansion at the NJ-1 site in Somerset, whose current 230,000-square-foot building is nearly full. The wholesale data center provider already […]
Sentinel Data Centers and Level 3 Communications Announce Fiber Network Extension into Multiple Sentinel Facilities
NEW YORK, NY – May 14, 2014 — Sentinel Data Centers today announced that Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) has extended its fiber network into each of Sentinel’s NC-1 and NJ-1 data centers. As a global Internet service provider, Level 3’s presence will further expand connectivity options for Sentinel’s rich universe of downtime-sensitive enterprise occupants. “We […]
Sentinel Data Centers Hosts Emerging Tech + Trends Forum at its New Durham NC-1 Data Center
DURHAM, NC – December 20, 2013 — Sentinel Data Centers hosted the North Carolina Technology Association’s final Emerging Tech + Trends event of the year, showcasing its new 420,000 square foot data center located in Durham, North Carolina to over 100 attendees. The “NC-1” data center is designed, built and commissioned to the most stringent enterprise standards […]
Sentinel Data Centers Announces Opening of NC-1 Data Center
DURHAM, NC – Sentinel Data Centers today announced that it has completed construction and commissioning of the initial 50,000 square foot / 8 megawatt initial phase of its NC-1 Data Center in Durham, NC. The 420,000 sf. facility is the region’s first multi-tenant data center purpose-built for the downtime-sensitive enterprise. The Sentinel NC-1 facility will ultimately […]
Sentinel Data Centers Announces tw telecom to Extend Fiber Network into Durham Facility
DURHAM, NC – June 12, 2013 – Sentinel Data Centers today announced that tw telecom (NASDAQ: TWTC), a leading national provider of network services including Business Ethernet, converged and IP VPN solutions for enterprises in Raleigh-Durham and throughout the U.S., will extend its network into Sentinel’s NC-1 data center. The fiber extension will expand Sentinel users’ options for […]
Sentinel, Russo Partner on Bloomberg Data Center
Sentinel Data Centers and Russo Development will team up on a new data center for Bloomberg L.P. in Orangetown, New York, the companies confirmed today. The Orangetown data center is being developed by a joint venture between Russo and Sentinel, which will retain ownership of the property. Bloomberg L.P. today confirmed that it has signed […]
Sentinel Data Centers Announces DukeNet to Expand into Durham Data Center
Durham, NC — April 9, 2013 – Sentinel Data Centers and DukeNet Communications announced today that DukeNet will build diverse network routes into Sentinel’s NC-1 data center to provide network solutions to Sentinel’s enterprise customers. “The ability for enterprises to leverage multiple, best-in-class carriers is central to our business model,” said Sentinel Co-President Todd Aaron. “This relationship […]
How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning
“How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning” By Rich Miller, March 13, 2013, Data Center Knowledge NEW YORK – Keep your diesel supplier close, and your employees closer. These were among the “lessons learned” from Superstorm Sandy, according to data center and emergency readiness experts at yesterday’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged conference at the Marriott […]
Sentinel Begins Hiring for Massive $200M Data Facility in Durham
DURHAM, N.C. — Sentinel Data Centers, which is building a massive 420,000 square foot complex in Durham that will cost some $200 million, has hired two executives who will help lead the Triangle operation. The firm will hire up to 20 people to staff the center in coming months. Brian Baker, a former vice president […]
Durham Data Center Coming in June, Already Hiring
“Durham data center coming in June, already hiring” By Amanda Jones Hoyle, Staff Writer, Triangle Business Journal Sentinel Data Centers, the largest of all the area data center projects proposed in the last year, is “deep in construction” and has started hiring key staff members to prepare for the Durham facility’s opening date in June. […]
Sentinel NJ-1 Data Center Sustains Normal Operations Throughout Hurricane Sandy
Other than a few hour period at the height of the storm during which our NJ-1 operating team proactively transferred to generator due to observed voltage fluctuations on the grid, Sentinel remained in normal operating mode with dual active utility services throughout Hurricane Sandy. As we had anticipated when initially designing the facility, PSE&G’s 69kV […]
Sentinel Launches NC-1 Data Center
Sentinel Data Centers to develop North Carolina’s first mega-scale, multi-tenant data center for enterprise users. 420,000 Square Foot Facility Optimized for the Large-Footprint User Durham, NC – Sentinel Data Centers, LLC, a pioneer in the wholesale data center industry, announced today that it has commenced development of a 420,000 square foot facility in Durham, North […]
Sentinel Receives Exception-Free SSAE 16 (Type II) Certification for its NJ-1 Data Center
New York, NY – January 23, 2012 Sentinel Data Centers, a leading owner, developer and operator of multi-tenant data centers for large-footprint users, announced today that it recently received SSAE 16 (Type II) certification for its NJ-1 data center. The independent SSAE service audit covered the period from Sentinel’s turn up of the NJ-1 facility […]
Sidera Networks Extends its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network into Sentinel’s New Jersey Data Center
Customers in Sentinel’s Somerset data center gain access to a diverse, high-capacity, resilient network New York, NY – November 16, 2011 — Sidera Networks, the premier provider of fiber optic-based network solutions, announces today it has expanded its network into Sentinel Data Centers’ NJ-1 data center. As a result of this expansion, Sentinel’s customers will now […]
Citing Strong NJ Leasing, Sentinel Starts Phase II
Sentinel Data Centers says it has leased space in its New Jersey data center to three of the largest Fortune 500 firms, who have leased more than 50,000 square feet of data center space. As a result, Sentinel said it will immediately begin construction on the second phase of construction at the data center in […]
Sentinel Data Centers Announces Significant Leasing Progress at Somerset, NJ Facility
Commences Development of Facility’s Phase II Three Months Following Completion of Phase I New York, NY – July 5, 2011– Sentinel Data Centers, a leading owner, developer and operator of multi-tenant data centers for large-footprint users, announced today that it has recently executed leases at its NJ-1 Facility with multiple new enterprise tenants, including three […]
Sentinel Data Centers Partners with Kelso & Co. to Expand Enterprise Data Center Platform
M&T Bank Provides Simultaneous Financing for Sentinel’s NJ-1 Facility New York, NY – February 28, 2011 — Sentinel Data Centers, a leading owner, developer and operator of multi-tenant data centers for large-footprint users, announced today an investment partnership with New York-based investment firm, Kelso & Company. Under the terms of the transaction, Kelso will invest alongside […]
Sentinel Data Centers NJ-1 Facility Achieves LEED GOLD Pre-Certification
330,000 Square Foot Multi-Tenant Facility on Track for Delivery in January 2011 New York, NY – September 30, 2010 — Sentinel Data Centers, LLC announced today that it has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (“LEED”) Gold level pre-certification from the US Green Building Council for its New Jersey 1 (“NJ-1”) multi-tenant data center […]
Sentinel Earns LEED Gold for NJ Project
Sentinel Data Centers said today that its new NJ-1 data center in Somerset, New Jersey has earned a Gold level precertification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program, a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council. The 330,000 square foot NJ-1 facility is currently under […]
Sentinel Data Centers Commences Fit-out of Large Northern New Jersey Wholesale Data Center
330,000 square foot multi-tenant facility to be optimized for the large footprint enterprise New York, NY – March 1, 2010 — Sentinel Data Centers, LLC, in partnership with Russo Development, LLC, announced today that it has begun construction to build out a recently acquired property in Somerset County, New Jersey as a large multi-tenant data […]
Sentinel Data Centers Commences Fit-out of Large Northern New Jersey Wholesale Data Center
330,000 square foot multi-tenant facility to be optimized for the large footprint enterprise New York, NY – March 1, 2010 — Sentinel Data Centers, LLC, in partnership with Russo Development, LLC, announced today that it has begun construction to build out a recently acquired property in Somerset County, New Jersey as a large multi-tenant data […]
