DATA CENTERS
Get a closer look at the supercharged engine powering St. Louis Metro Region's fastest and most abundant fiber connectivity. Unleash the potential of this state-of-the-art infrastructure, revolutionizing the digital landscape and facilitating growth and innovation.
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The Globe Building's unique physical attributes foster the necessary conditions for maintaining high availability environnments.
• A seven story, 550,000 SF building housing 140,000 SF of existing data center and telecom tenants.
• Large, contiguous floor plates of up to 84,000 SF.
• Floor loads of 250 lbs/SF on floors 1-4, 200 lbs/ SF on floors 5-7, 150 lbs/SF on the roof.
• Floor-to-ceiling height ranges from 11.5 ft to 18.5 ft.
• Four full-height passenger elevators, four freight elevators with capacity to 5,000 lbs.
• Secure pads on-site for diesel generators.
• Around-the-clock secured building access.
• On-site, 24/7, highly secure in-building parking garage with over 500 spaces.
• Multiple widely spaced open shafts for running vertical power and fiber infrastructure.
• Extremely wide corridors that accommodate forklifts and pallet jacks for moving heavy equipment.
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The Globe Building has the on-site power and other infrastructure to handle your business’ power and cooling needs. It features updated electrical power with brand new, dedicated Ameren UE basement substation and three diverse, 13.8 kV utility feeds, with true “A+B” utility power available. The building is currently served with 17.5 MW of redundant utility electricity, and has the capability of adding 20 MW or more in less than 18 months.
With more than 40,000 SF available on the rooftop, the building provides abundant roof space for cooling support equipment and wireless transmission.
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The Globe’s Meet Me Room offers tenants, carriers, and data centers the ability to interconnect in a shared, carrier-neutral environment without incurring local loop fees.
The large, climate-controlled Meet Me Room with UPS- backed power provides diverse fiber paths throughout the building and supports multiple fiber providers. Meet Me Room space is available for up to 100 23” cabinets.
Individual point of presence (POP) sites are available for carriers. These dedicated spaces range from 900 SF to several thousand SF. All Globe Building data centers have cabinets within the Meet Me Room, as well as numerous carriers and dark fiber providers.
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The Globe Building retains a full-time staff, including six maintenance personnel who understand the building and its infrastructure. All staff members are trained to work effectively with the occupants of high availability environments and with outside contractors and vendors.
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Our redundant fiber entrances, multiple vertical risers, and Meet Me Room allow for efficient and cost-effective inside plant build-outs and cross-connections to any carrier or facility in the Globe Building.
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A dedicated Ameren Union Electric basement substation and the three (3) diverse, 13.8 kV utility feeds support the "high availability" needs of the building’s 5 data centers and resident businesses. This "always on the grid" capability makes the Globe Building and its spaces unique among any other office or innovation space in the region.
The existing power utility room at the Globe Building is presently fed with enough capacity to support another 7.5 MW of 3-phase, 480v power. An additional 20 MW or more of primary power can be delivered in less than 18 months.
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It starts with four diverse points of entry for fiber providers: one found at each corner of the building.
Diverse building conduits and five oversized risers running the height of the building are available to accommodate any and all communication, cooling, and power infrastructure.
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The 550,000 square foot Globe Building is also home to 135,000 square feet of data centers and 12 different fiber providers. That translates to fast, easy and low-cost access to gigabit Internet speeds. Not only first-in-class, but we are also first among all other available office and innovation spaces in the region in connectivity at speed.