Digital Realty owns the 350 E Cermak building, and has for quite some time… Equinix is a tenant, occupying the entire 5th floor, and probably some other space. Steadfast Networks was a tenant, Steadfast sold their operations to Hivelocity… and it appears Hivelocity then sold off their 350 E Cermak colo operations to their landlord.
On Jan 29, 2026, at 12:17 PM, Bruce Wainer via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, but does this impact organizations who have a presence in 350 E Cermak via Equinix or other providers? My only experience with that building is as an Equinix customer. What I'm wondering is really: is this change in ownership of the whole building, or just a part of it the way that Equinix is just one part of it? -Bruce Wainer
On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 1:07 PM John Von Essen via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
I know that Hivelocity just canned their CEO, and have some industry “consultants” on the team now, so not surprised that some fire sales have occurred.
-John
On Jan 29, 2026, at 12:26 PM, John Palmer via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
So, it looks like Hivelocity sold their data center at 350 E Cermak to Digital Realty. I guess DR is getting into the business of actually running data centers (Althogh Telx's name is all over the paperwork).
We have some servers colocated at this data center.
We received no notice of this transfer either by e-mail or on paper.
The only notice we got was an invoice.
I spent 2 weeks trying to contact them and they never responded to my e-mail until a few days ago. Seems that their outbound MTA is incapable of delivering e-mail to our MTA, which is located AT THEIR DATA CENTER at 350 E Cermak.
When I finally got in touch with them after trying for 2 weeks, it appears that 1) They have no online customer management portal (or are not giving us access to it), 2) They don't take credit cards and require a check or wire transfer (so 1960's) and 3) As I said, their MTA seems incapable of communicating with another MTA in THEIR DATA CENTER.
Has anyone else had problems with them related to this transfer from Hivelocity?
I think Hivelocity sold them their Miami data center as well.
Hoping their service gets better soon. My suspicion is that they didn't plan the transition from Hivelocity very well and are scrambling to fix the issues.
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