Secure Mountain

What Secure Mountain does

Secure Mountain, LLC is a privately-held Virginia company that operates a subterranean data center and colocation facility housed in a former limestone mine in western Virginia. The site encompasses 166 acres above ground with over 900,000 square feet (21 million cubic feet) of partitioned subsurface engineered space, cut more than 1,200 feet back into solid rock and protected by more than 200 feet of rock cover. The facility's stable natural temperature of 55°F enables geothermal cooling, and a remote section holds more than 10 million gallons of naturally chilled water for temperature control. Physical security features include EMP protection, a single hardened point of ingress and egress, and redundant power feeds at $0.05/kWh.

The company sells lease-able, partitioned underground space as a colocation service to government agencies and commercial clients, positioning around the Federal Government's 'cloud first' policy and targeting national security, homeland security, healthcare, and financial services verticals. The offering combines the unique physical asset with 'best available and emerging technologies' from IT integrators to deliver customizable, scalable data management solutions emphasizing privacy, regulatory compliance, and physical security. Pricing is structured as multi-year subscription contracts, though specific lease rates are not publicly disclosed.

Commercially, Secure Mountain operates as a small, direct enterprise sales organization with 1-10 employees and no disclosed funding rounds, named customers, management team bios, or revenue figures. The company's website carries a 2019 copyright, no public information exists on partnerships, certifications, or active customer deployments, and the management team page is blank. The entity is structured as a Virginia LLC with no parent company or institutional backing disclosed.

Name

Secure Mountain

Legal name

Secure Mountain, LLC

Website

https://securemountain.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Secure Mountain, LLC operates a hardened underground data center in a former Virginia limestone mine, offering 900,000+ sq ft of colocation space to federal agencies and commercial clients in national security, healthcare, and financial services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secure Data Center Colocation Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Mining (213)

SIC

Computer Storage Devices (3572)

akta.pro primary industry

Edge Storage & Data Management (Caching, Backup, Local Data Lakes) (HDABAOAD)

Keywords

• Underground data center
• Data center colocation
• Secure data storage
• Government cloud services
• Geothermal cooling facility

Headquarters

HQ city

Roanoke

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Operations, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Data Center Colocation Services: Secure Mountain offers lease-able, partitioned underground space for data storage and management. The company combines unique underground facility attributes with best available and emerging technologies to provide low-cost, tailored data center capabilities to government and commercial clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Secure Mountain offers over 900,000 square feet of lease-able, partitioned underground data center colocation space carved into a former limestone mine in western Virginia, providing customers with highly secure, physically hardened, and environmentally sustainable infrastructure for storing, utilizing, and sharing data. The company combines its unique subterranean site with best-available and emerging technologies from third-party IT integrators to deliver customizable, scalable, low-cost capabilities that meet privacy, regulatory compliance, and physical security requirements.

Product overview

Secure Mountain is a single-service offering — an underground secure data center and colocation facility. The company provides highly secure, physically hardened underground space for data storage, utilization, and sharing, serving government agencies and commercial clients. The facility offers 900,000+ square feet of partitioned subsurface engineered space with natural cooling capabilities, positioned as a low-cost, highly secure, and environmentally sustainable alternative to above-ground data centers. The offering combines physical infrastructure (underground hardened facility) with technology services to deliver customizable, scalable, and secure data management solutions aligned with cloud migration, risk reduction, and sustainability goals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Underground Data Center Colocation

Quantifiable outcome

• Power costs at $0.05 per kilowatt hour, well below national average
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Green Mountain: Green Mountain operates sustainable, hydro-cooled underground data centers inside repurposed mountain facilities in Norway, with strong emphasis on security, low power costs, and ESG credentials. It competes with Secure Mountain in the niche of repurposed-mine/mountain colocation serving security- and sustainability-sensitive enterprise clients.
• Flexential: Flexential (formed from the merger of Peak 10 and ViaWest) operates a national network of colocation and cloud data centers targeting mid-market enterprise and regulated industries, including healthcare and financial services. It is comparable to Secure Mountain across target verticals, hybrid-cloud colocation use cases, and compliance-driven sales motions.
• Cyxtera Technologies: Cyxtera operates a national footprint of colocation data centers serving enterprise and government clients with an emphasis on secure, compliant, hybrid-cloud-ready facilities. It is a direct competitor to Secure Mountain for federal and regulated-industry colocation mandates, though without the underground-differentiation.
• DataBank: DataBank (which acquired zColo and Switch) is a major U.S. colocation provider offering secure, compliant data center space to enterprise and government clients across multiple markets. It is comparable to Secure Mountain as a multi-tenant colocation operator targeting regulated workloads, though it lacks the underground/single-site focus.
• CoreSite (American Tower): CoreSite, now part of American Tower, runs interconnection-rich colocation facilities heavily used by cloud, network, and enterprise customers and is commonly cited as a comparable for secure hybrid-cloud colocation. It serves a similar enterprise/government buyer profile to Secure Mountain, with overlapping use cases around cloud on-ramps and compliance.
• Compass Datacenters: Compass Datacenters designs and operates purpose-built, enterprise-grade colocation facilities, often delivered as single-tenant "Data Center in a Box" solutions. It is comparable to Secure Mountain in providing secure, scalable colocation to enterprise and government clients, though Compass uses traditional above-ground construction.
• Iron Mountain Data Centers: Iron Mountain operates highly secure, compliance-focused colocation and underground data center facilities (including repurposed caves and mines) serving federal, healthcare, and financial services clients. It is the most direct competitor to Secure Mountain, sharing both the underground-facility model and the federal/commercial security-focused customer base.
• IO Data Centers: IO Data Centers provides modular, software-defined colocation facilities serving enterprise customers with secure, scalable data center capacity. It is comparable to Secure Mountain as a colocation operator targeting secure enterprise workloads with emphasis on operational efficiency and customization.

Broad incumbents

• QTS Realty (Blackstone): QTS, acquired by Blackstone, is one of the largest U.S. hyperscale-aligned colocation providers serving federal and large-enterprise tenants with massive, multi-MW campuses. It is comparable to Secure Mountain as a federal/enterprise colocation operator, though at vastly greater scale and without an underground-differentiated facility.

Emerging players

• Bahnhof (Pionen White Mountain): Bahnhof's Pionen White Mountain facility is a high-security underground data center built inside a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Stockholm, marketed for physical security and resilience. It is thematically comparable to Secure Mountain as a niche, security-led underground colocation provider, though operating in a different geography and serving a smaller mix of international clients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/secure-mountain

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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