The US Department of Defense (DoD)'s Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has selected Iron Mountain for a colocation contract.

According to a notice of intent published to SAM.gov on March 4, DCSA plans to procure colocation services from Iron Mountain's data center in Boyers, Pennsylvania.

The notice states: "The action is critical to DCSA for continued Information Technology (IT) hosting services, power, air conditioning, and network connectivity to DCSA's IT equipment, as well as cross connection and helping hands support," adding that only some items are being procured via Iron Mountain's GSA schedule, the rest are being procured from Iron Mountain via open market procedures.

According to the notice, Iron Mountain is the only provider within 50 miles of Boyers that meets the DCSA's requirements, including Tier II certification by the TIA’s American National Standards, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certified, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRamp) certified, Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) High Compliant certified.

Iron Mountain's Boyers site is a 200-acre campus located 220 feet underground. It has 330,000 sq ft (30,660 sqm) of data center space and 15.5MW of capacity, and is described as "highly secure" by the company.

In February of 2025, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records at the Boyers data center.

The Boyers site is a former mine that is used for both paper storage and modern data center storage. Its use as a federal records storage and processing facility has long been criticized - prior to the Government Accountability Office publishing a report in 2019 raising concerns about the facility, the Washington Post in 2014 described it as a 'sinkhole of bureaucracy' and described multiple failed efforts to digitize the process across multiple administrations. According to Iron Mountain, physical records storage is a minor part of their contracts with federal agencies - around 0.5 percent.

The facility was converted into a data center in 2013 when Iron Mountain announced it was entering the data center sector, and was the company's first data center as part of that push.

In 2021, a "leading hyperscale enterprise software provider' signed a 2.4MW data center lease for the Boyers facility.