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In a June 2013 profile, Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) described a customer-led approach to expanding beyond established data-center hubs: find a committed customer, confirm that a market has workable infrastructure, and make sure the site can support growth. Orangeburg, New York; Kapolei, Hawaii; and Cheyenne, Wyoming, each illustrated a different rationale—not proof that newer markets are inherently better.
What 1547 meant by a “newer” market
Data Center Knowledge’s June 17, 2013 profile by Jason Verge focused on markets less established than hubs such as Ashburn or Santa Clara. Managing director Todd Raymond said 1547 looked for infrastructure that was already in place and assessed whether a facility made financial sense. He put the approach this way: But we’re able to go into markets that have the necessary infrastructure in place and look at a facility and tell whether it’s a smart investment.
That was Raymond’s description of the company’s strategy, not a measured ranking of data-center markets.
The profile described a founding team combining data-center and investment experience. It identified Raymond as a former Telx executive, co-founder Corey Welp as an investment fundraiser, and co-founders Jerry Martin and Pat Hines as members of the Martin Group, which had focused on data centers and done work for Telx. The article reported that Welp had raised more than $4 billion for investment opportunities across asset classes; that biographical figure was not a data-center-market statistic.
Three locations, three different rationales
Orangeburg: proximity to a major customer base
The 2013 article described 1547’s property at 1 Ramland Road as near facilities in Manhattan, Connecticut, and New Jersey. It reported 32 acres, 232,000 square feet in total, 150,000 square feet of data-center space, 6 MW on site, and 24 MW provisioned. These are figures in the 2013 account, not verified current capacity. The acreage also differs from the company’s current portfolio page, which describes Orangeburg as a 23-acre, 232,000-square-foot facility; the two dated descriptions do not establish why the acreage differs. 1547’s portfolio page continues to list Orangeburg.
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Kapolei: a possible network and geographic advantage
The profile said Hawaii Pacific Data was adjacent to Hawaii Pacific Teleport. It presented Hawaii’s position between Asia-Pacific and North America as a potential advantage for content delivery and caching. The article attributed to the company the claims that its facility was multi-tenant and carrier-neutral, with satellite and subsea-fiber backup. Those descriptions reflect the company’s 2013 rationale; they do not establish present-day network routes, latency, or resilience.
Cheyenne: a customer-led disaster-recovery choice
The profile said a partnership with Green House Data led 1547 to Cheyenne and attributed the move to a customer. Raymond called the site the perfect disaster recovery spot
. The article also cited connectivity, power costs, and state incentives as considerations. Those were historical reasons reported in 2013, not a current comparison of Cheyenne’s costs or incentives with other markets.
How to assess a less-established data-center market
The 2013 examples suggest a set of comparison questions, not a formula with universal weights. A prospective operator or customer can use them to test whether a location fits a specific workload and business case:
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- Anchor demand: Is there a committed customer or credible local demand to justify entering the market? The profile said an anchor customer was typically the trigger for 1547, with room to expand beyond that initial customer.
- Power: Is usable capacity available when needed, at a cost and on terms that support the project? Historical capacity figures alone cannot answer whether power is available today.
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- Expansion room: Can the facility scale beyond its first customer without losing the advantages that made the location attractive?
The cases show why these questions need to be considered together. Kapolei’s cited rationale centered on geography and network access, Cheyenne’s on customer demand and disaster recovery, and Orangeburg’s on proximity to the New York-area market. None of those factors alone establishes that one location is the better choice for every operator.
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What the 2013 article does—and does not—establish today
Raymond’s reported pipeline estimate is historical: “At any given time, we have 5 or so potential projects,” he said, adding that he expected “at least two more projects by the end of the year.” That was a forecast made in 2013; it is not a current pipeline or confirmation of what happened afterward.
1547’s current portfolio page lists Cheyenne, Chicago, Honolulu, Kapolei, McAllen, Milwaukee, Orangeburg, Portland, and South Bend, alongside sold assets. The fact that it still lists Orangeburg, Kapolei, and Cheyenne provides current portfolio context, but does not verify the old article’s facility capacities or its historical descriptions.
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The company currently describes services including turnkey space, colocation, facility development, physical security, cooling, fire detection and suppression, scalable power, and interconnection. Its turnkey data-center space and interconnection pages describe offerings such as cross-connects, internet exchange access, cloud connectivity, and links among enterprises, carriers, cloud providers, and content delivery networks. These are company descriptions of its services.
A later company announcement, dated April 28, 2026, says Harrison Street Asset Management and 1547 achieved full occupancy at the Orangeburg data center with further expansion underway. It is a dated update, not confirmation of the 2013 power figures or a complete account of current conditions. 1547’s news page lists the announcement.
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