Tonaquint Data Centers, a major data and colocation center in St. George, has acquired EdgeX Data Centers of Oklahoma City.
Tonaquint is a specialized data center provider offering cloud, colocation, backup, disaster recovery and network-as-a-service solutions to mid-market organizations through its facilities in the Mountain West and Southwest regions of the United States. The company was founded in 2008 in St. George, with a 30,000-square-foot data center. It entered the Boise, Idaho, market in 2020 with the acquisition of Fiberpipe Data Centers Inc.
The EdgeX facility is a purpose-built 65,000-square-feet Tier III data center, including two 10,000-square-foot data halls, situated on a secure four-acre campus. The facility has the ability to deliver water-chilled cooling for high-density workloads. The facility utilizes the same electrical grid that powers the airport and is designed to withstand tornado-force winds of up to 310 mph.
As part of the transaction, Terry Morrison, co-founder of EdgeX, will join Tonaquint as chief operating officer and chief technology officer.
“Working with the EdgeX team has been an absolute pleasure,” said Matt Hamlin, CEO of Tonaquint. “This transaction will enable Tonaquint to accelerate its growth and expand the service offering to our clients.”
John Parsons, co-founder of EdgeX, said, “We are thrilled to be able to bring EdgeX together with Tonaquint and are excited about continuing to work with them to extend the capabilities of the Tonaquint platform into the very vibrant Oklahoma City market.”