# Iron Mountain BOS-1

ISO-NE data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/iron-mountain-bos-1

Iron Mountain BOS-1 is a colocation facility at 171 Bearfoot Road in Northborough, Massachusetts, on a 58-acre campus with room for two more buildings. A 2023 Data Center Frontier tour reported 21,000 square feet of usable floor space and 3.6 MW of power (basis unspecified), served by National Grid, with N+1 air conditioning and generators and two 2 MW diesel generators. It holds Uptime Institute Tier 3 certification, uses waterless cooling and was designed as a LEED Gold building.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 171 Bearfoot Road, Northborough, Worcester County, MA

## Power and grid context

- Reported unspecified: 3.6 MW · reported · exact asset — Reported as power for the facility in a 2023 trade tour article; basis unspecified.
- Electric utility: National Grid

## Development

- Construction: Built in about seven or eight months; land available for two more buildings of the same size

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation

## Sources

- [U.S. Census street-address geocode](https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/onelineaddress?address=171+Bearfoot+Road%2C+Northborough%2C+MA&benchmark=Public_AR_Current&vintage=Current_Current&format=json)
- [https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/33013536/data-center-tours-iron-mountain-bos-1-northborough-ma](https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/site-selection/article/33013536/data-center-tours-iron-mountain-bos-1-northborough-ma)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.
- Map point: approximate U.S. Census street-address geocode.

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