Data Center Registry
Equinix BO1
Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts · All 34 Equinix sites
Equinix BO1 is an operating data center in Waltham, Massachusetts (Middlesex County), operated by Equinix.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Equinix
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 74 West Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA, 02451
- Coordinates
- 42.3963, -71.2691 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 15, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Equinix BO1 in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Notes on the record
Multi-tenant colocation facility inside a leased building at 74 West Street; page confirms it as a fully operational Equinix site. Coordinates are an approximate geocode of the street address, not a confirmed parcel footprint. No MW or square-footage figures were disclosed on the publicly accessible source page (gated behind a paid dataset request), so capacityMw is omitted rather than guessed.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Digital Realty BOS14 · Needham · Digital Realty7 mi · Operating
- Evocative BOS1 (Somerville) · Somerville · Evocative10 mi · Operating · 6 MW
- CoreSite BO1 - Boston, MA · Somerville · CoreSite10 mi · Operating
- Expedient Boston · Medford · Expedient10 mi · Operating
- DataBank BOS1 - Downtown Boston · Boston · DataBank11 mi · Operating · 0.5 MW
- Equinix BO2 - Boston, Billerica · Billerica · Equinix11 mi · Operating
- Markley Group Boston (One Summer Street / BOSIX) · Boston · Markley Group11 mi · Operating · 30 MW
- 365 Data Centers Marlborough (MA1) · Marlborough · 365 Data Centers16 mi · Operating · 2.8 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Equinix BO1 data center in Waltham?
Nothing on record as of September 15, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Equinix BO1 in Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Equinix BO1 data center?
No lawsuit over Equinix BO1 appears in the record we track as of September 15, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Equinix BO1 use?
No water withdrawal figure for Equinix BO1 is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Equinix BO1, and how big is it?
Equinix is the operator on record. We hold 34 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Equinix BO1," updated September 15, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/equinix-bo1-waltham-ma.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/equinix-bo1-waltham-ma, retrieved October 1, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Equinix Boston BO1 Data Center · Baxtel · retrieved September 12, 2026
- 2.PeeringDB facility registry, Equinix BO1 - Boston, Waltham (org Equinix, Inc.; 74 West Street, Waltham, MA 02451) · PeeringDB · retrieved September 15, 2026
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