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 <[email protected]> > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 < >> [email protected]> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NANOG mailing list >>> >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/N4EZB2HKYRQN3YGVLOENIBYVF5LU73W4/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NANOG mailing list >> >> https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NCQWOJCQ3AV7KTLRP4XKUO4IEKMUFZRB/ > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2FOFSFFQMWD5AB3Q6OCFGLORHJ6T5JIP/ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SUFURIQ2C4O5DOQSM4S2CMZX5NQCGPA4/
