# Iron Mountain

> Iron Mountain is a 74-year-old information management and storage company that started as a Cold War records bunker inside a played-out iron ore mine and now runs one of the largest physical-to-digital operations on earth. It stores paper, tapes, hard drives, master recordings and fine art for roughly 225,000 organizations, shreds what they no longer need, and increasingly houses their servers in a fast-growing data center business. Structured as a REIT and listed on the NYSE as IRM, it reported $6.9 billion in 2025 revenue while pivoting from filing boxes toward data centers, digitization and IT asset disposal.

- **Founded:** 1951
- **Headquarters:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Herman Knaust (Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 30,000 employees
- **Products:** Records Management & Storage, Secure Shredding & Destruction, Data Centers & Colocation, Digitization & Content Services, Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- **Notable:** Established the first underground commercial records storage center in the United States in 1951., Grew to serve roughly 225,000 customers, including about 95% of the Fortune 1000., Member of the S&P 500, structured as a REIT and listed on the NYSE as IRM.

## Products & services

- **Records Management & Storage** — Offsite storage, indexing and retrieval of physical business records, files and documents - the founding business that still anchors the company.
- **Secure Shredding & Destruction** — Confidential document destruction and secure media disposal for compliance-driven industries.
- **Data Centers & Colocation** — Owned and operated colocation and hyperscale data center capacity, marketed as Iron Mountain Data Centers, and one of the company's fastest-growing segments.
- **Digitization & Content Services** — Document scanning, intelligent document processing, and digital experience/content management to move paper archives into searchable digital form.
- **Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM)** — IT asset disposition, data erasure, remarketing and recycling of retired enterprise hardware.
- **InSight & Digital Solutions** — SaaS platform (InSight Digital Experience Platform) applying automation and AI to unlock and govern data across physical and digital records.
- **Art & Media Storage / Fine Arts Logistics** — Climate-controlled storage, handling and logistics for fine art, film, audio master recordings and cultural assets.
- **Data Backup & Vaulting** — Offsite tape vaulting, backup and disaster recovery services, including secure underground facilities.

## Achievements

- Established the first underground commercial records storage center in the United States in 1951.
- Grew to serve roughly 225,000 customers, including about 95% of the Fortune 1000.
- Member of the S&P 500, structured as a REIT and listed on the NYSE as IRM.
- Reported $6.9 billion in revenue for full-year 2025 with record data center leasing.
- Built three growth engines - data centers, digital and asset lifecycle management - to nearly $2 billion in combined revenue.
- Signed 63 megawatts of new data center leases in 2025 with roughly 400 megawatts of capacity being energized over the following two years.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Reported full-year 2025 results: $6.9 billion revenue, $2.574 billion adjusted EBITDA, and guidance for 10-13% revenue growth in 2026.
- **2025-12** — Data center segment posted record leasing of 63MW for 2025, with data center revenue guided to exceed $1 billion in 2026.
- **2025-01** — Growth businesses - data center, ALM and digital - grew more than 30% to nearly $2 billion, driving two-thirds of company growth.

## Links

- Website: https://ironmountain.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/iron-mountain
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ironmountain
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/IronMountainInc
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ironmountain
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/ironmountain

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Last updated: 2026-08-12