Iron Mountain Q2 2025 Earnings Report

Iron Mountain EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $1.24
• Consensus EPS: $1.19
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.05
• One Year Ago EPS: $1.08

Iron Mountain Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $1.68 billion
• Expected Revenue: $1.68 billion
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$49.00 thousand
• YoY Revenue Growth: +11.60%

Iron Mountain Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2025
• Date: 8/6/2025
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 8:30AM ET

Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) (NYSE: IRM) is a global leader in information management services. Founded in 1951 and trusted by more than 240,000 customers worldwide, Iron Mountain serves to protect and elevate the power of our customers' work. Through a range of offerings including digital transformation, data centers, secure records storage, information management, asset lifecycle management, secure destruction and art storage and logistics, Iron Mountain helps businesses bring light to their dark data, enabling customers to unlock value and intelligence from their stored digital and physical assets at speed and with security, while helping them meet their environmental goals.

Iron Mountain Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Delivered a record Q2 with revenue up 12% to $1.7 billion, adjusted EBITDA up 15% to $628 million, and AFFO up 15% to $370 million.
• Positive Sentiment: Raised full-year 2025 guidance to $6.79–$6.94 billion in revenue, $2.52–$2.57 billion in adjusted EBITDA, and $1.505–$1.53 billion in AFFO (or $5.04–$5.13 per share).
• Positive Sentiment: Continued double-digit growth across key segments: Digital Solutions via the DXP platform (record revenue), data center organic storage growth of 26%, and ALM organic growth of 42%.
• Positive Sentiment: Signed a definitive agreement to acquire CRC India, bolstering its digital services footprint in India and enhancing its global product portfolio.
• Negative Sentiment: Data center new lease signings came in lighter than planned with only 6 MW signed year-to-date, prompting 2025 leasing guidance to be lowered to 30–80 MW.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning, and welcome to the Iron Mountain Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen only mode. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Marc Roop, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

[Mark Rupe, SVP & Head - IR at Iron Mountain]

Thanks, Chuck. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to our second quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Joining us today are Bill Meaney, our President and Chief Executive Officer and Barry Heitman, our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. After our prepared remarks, we'll open the lines for Q and A. Today's call will include forward looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties.

[Mark Rupe, SVP & Head - IR at Iron Mountain]

For a discussion of the major risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ from these statements, please refer to today's earnings materials, including the safe harbor language on Slide two of the earnings presentation, and our annual and quarterly reports on Form 10 ks and 10 Q. Each of these items as well as reconciliations of non GAAP financial measures referenced during this call can also be found on our Investor Relations website. With that, I'll turn the call over to Bill.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Thank you, Mark, and thank you all for joining us today to discuss our second quarter results. As you saw in this morning's release, we delivered another quarter of record financial performance and double digit growth. We achieved an all time high for quarterly revenue, adjusted EBITDA and AFFO. Our financial results exceeded our expectations and were strong across our business. Following on from this strong performance, we are pleased to increase our guidance across all key financial metrics.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Revenue increased 12% to $1,700,000,000 adjusted EBITDA grew 15% to $628,000,000 and AFFO increased 15% to $370,000,000 I am impressed with how our team continues to deliver on our growth strategy. Our double digit growth reflects continued successful execution of our strategic priorities. We are driving continued revenue growth in our physical storage business, achieving record revenue in Q2. We are on pace for our thirty seventh consecutive year of organic storage rental growth. We are delivering AI powered digital solutions across industry verticals and quickly becoming a key leader recognized by customers as well as industry analysts with our Intel Insight Digital Experience Platform or DXP.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

We are growing our data center business on a global basis, generating organic storage growth of 26% in the second quarter with a strong pipeline in place to execute against our portfolio capacity of 1.3 gigawatts. And we are accelerating growth in our asset lifecycle management business with our investments in this highly fragmented market beginning to pay off, delivering more than 40% organic growth in the second quarter. Our business has never been stronger and more profitable than it is today. Our growth portfolio, including data center, digital and asset lifecycle management, will represent nearly 30% of our total revenue exiting 2025 and provide some 6% annual revenue growth on a consolidated basis and that is on top of the mid single digit growth provided by the strength in our physical records management business. And looking ahead, the strong momentum across our business lines provides a similarly strong growth outlook for revenue and EBITDA going forward beyond 2025.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

This continued growth is all due to our team's successful execution of our strategy and commitment to delivering value for our customers whilst leveraging our synergistic business model. Iron Mountain is winning as a result of one, our long standing relationships and proven track record of reliability and trust as reflected by our number one ranking in the customer satisfaction by the Wall Street Journal of the Top U. S. Listed companies two, our strong reputation for security, ability to meet stringent compliance requirements and deliver a secure chain of custody Three, our comprehensive end to end solutions offering allowing customers to partner with a single vendor to meet all of their needs, which is a focus of our commercial teams cross selling efforts. And four, our global footprint and operational scale, enabling customers to leverage our services across 61 countries and award us larger deals that only we can effectively manage.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Let me now describe some recent customer wins to illustrate the momentum supporting our growth. In records management, we continue to see many unvended storage opportunities within our customer base. A great example is a U. S. Bank with more than 300 locations that chose Iron Mountain to store 42,000 cubic feet of records after previously managing them in house.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

The strength of our existing relationship, our expertise in storing records, the security of our facilities and the ability to integrate multiple solutions for the customers were key to winning this business. Additionally, we secured two new long term customer relationships in the healthcare industry, one in The UK and the other in Norway. Both of these wins were captured from competitors and jointly deliver more than 50,000 cubic feet of records. These customers selected Iron Mountain due to our strong reputation for security with our service level commitment and transportation network also cited as important factors. Turning to our Digital Solutions business, where we achieved another record quarter of revenue in Q2, the DXP platform continues to accelerate securing increasingly strategic partnerships and positioning itself as a differentiating technology solution for enterprises globally.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

We are excited about the upcoming release of AI agents designed to support intelligent, multi step decision making across complex workflows, which are now being embedded into our industry solutions. And we're proud that leading analyst firms, including Gartner and Everest, are recognizing Iron Mountain alongside top tier AI software vendors and business process outsourcing providers. Our continued investment in platform intelligence and customer driven development is being recognized and positions us well for sustained digital growth. In addition, I am pleased to announce that we have significantly strengthened our position as a leading player in India. Earlier this morning, we signed a definitive agreement to acquire CRC India, a leading Indian digitization services company.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

As we've shared in the past, India represents a major growth opportunity for Iron Mountain and this acquisition sets us up well to capitalize on that growth over the coming years as well as expanding our digital product portfolio, both for India and globally. I will now highlight a few of our recent wins in digital solutions. A major global SaaS company employing over 75,000 people selected our digital HR solution built on the DXP platform as its enterprise content management or ECM platform for its human resource needs. DXP's modern user friendly interface and solution offers this customer greater control over HR processes whilst achieving greater productivity from the AI embedded in our platform. And as it relates to our digital award with the Department of Treasury, we are actively digitizing documents and leveraging our intelligent digitization solution.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

More recently, we have submitted our response to the government's request for quotation regarding a larger, longer term engagement, which would incorporate the work we are currently doing under the initial award. We look forward to hearing back from the department on this new government efficiency opportunity. Let me now turn to our data center business. For the quarter, we achieved revenue growth of 24% driven by 26% organic storage growth as we further execute on a strong leasing backlog. We commenced 23 megawatts primarily in Northern Virginia and renewed leases totaling 25 megawatts with continued strong pricing spreads.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

As it relates to new leasing activity, we leased two megawatts of enterprise business in the quarter and six megawatts year to date. The data center market remains very strong. Pricing continues to be good and returns are high. Our new lease signings this year have been lighter than planned and we now project new lease signings of 30 megawatts to 80 megawatts in 2025. Over the course of the year, we've observed our hyperscale customers have been particularly focused on procuring and developing large deployments to support AI training.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

More recently, we have seen an increased level of priority for AI inference in cloud infrastructure, which is where our assets are deployed. Correspondingly, we have seen more intense activity and engagement across our pipeline. Looking out beyond this year, we have high confidence in our ability to drive consistent revenue growth in line with the levels we've achieved over the past few years. This outlook is underwritten by both our backlog as well as the high value assets we have to sell in prime markets including Northern Virginia, Richmond, Amsterdam, Madrid and Chicago. Turning to our asset lifecycle management business, we achieved 70% reported revenue growth, including 42% organic growth with strength across both our enterprise and data center decommissioning channels.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Our commercial team continues to cross sell our portfolio of solutions and win new business, including several single vendor consolidations in the quarter. Let me now share some of the ALM wins achieved, which support our ability to to continue driving strong double digit organic growth. In the enterprise channel, a globally recognized food company has selected Iron Mountain as its exclusive ALM partner for a secured disposition of its assets across 1,500 locations in France. The deal represents a cross sell building on our long standing records management relationship with the customer and our reputation for delivering highly secure services. And a global consulting firm with more than 70,000 employees has asked Iron Mountain to provide secure IT asset disposition services for its business in Canada.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

This ALM win also represents a cross sell building on our twenty five year partnership of providing records management services to this customer. Iron Mountain was selected thanks to our secure chain of custody and global presence. We see additional opportunities in the future as the customer seeks to standardize processes globally. And in the data center decommissioning channel, we won new business across North America and in The UK. These wins include decommissioning a data center in The UK where we won business previously with a competitor, providing on-site server destruction services at more than 20 data centers for a software company, and managing the remarketing and recycling of racks and equipment for a hyperscale customer.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Iron Mountain's reputation as a trusted partner with security expertise contributed to each win. In conclusion, I'm incredibly proud of the results that our Mountaineers continue to deliver. Our performance during the first half of the year exceeded our expectations and our second half outlook is equally bright. The momentum we continue to build in service to our customers makes me confident that we can sustain our double digit revenue and profit growth for the foreseeable future. This same increasing strength and momentum in our business is further evidenced by the increase in our guidance for this year, which Barry will share in more detail. With that, I'll turn the call over to Barry.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Thanks, Bill, and thank you all for joining us to discuss our results. Our team executed very well in the second quarter, delivering another record performance across all of our key financial metrics. We achieved record revenue of $1,710,000,000 up $178,000,000 year on year, an increase of 12% on a reported basis and 11% on a constant currency basis. We exceeded our projection for the second quarter by $32,000,000 driven by strength in our ALM business. Foreign exchange rates accounted for $5,000,000 of the upside relative to our second quarter revenue guidance.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

We delivered strong organic growth in the quarter of 9.4%. Total storage revenue was $1,010,000,000 up 90,000,000 year on year and up 9% on an organic basis. Total service revenue was $7.00 $2,000,000 up $87,000,000 from last year. Organic service growth of 10% was ahead of our expectations and notably improved from the first quarter rate. Adjusted EBITDA of $628,000,000 was an all time quarterly record and expanded $84,000,000 or 15% year on year.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

This was $8,000,000 ahead of the projection we provided on our last call, driven by operational strength across the business. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 36.7%, up 120 basis points year on year, which reflects improved margins across all of our businesses. For me, a key callout is our team's performance delivering significant operating leverage resulting in an incremental flow through margin of 47% in the quarter. AFFO was $370,000,000 up $49,000,000 which represents growth as compared to last year of 15%. AFFO on a per share basis was $1.24 also up 15% to last year.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Now turning to segment performance. I'll start with our Global RIM business, which achieved record second quarter revenue of $1,320,000,000 driven by revenue management and digital solutions. This is a marked increase of $73,000,000 year on year and represents our best quarter in years in terms of sequential growth in both dollars and percent. Our storage organic storage was up 6% year on year driven by revenue management and consistent volume. On a two year comp basis, organic storage revenue was up 13.5% in the second quarter as compared to 10.8% in the first quarter.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Organic service revenue was up 5% with contributions from digital and core services. Our digital business had another strong quarter, achieving record revenue. I'd like to note that reported service revenue was impacted by a slight decline in terminations, permanent withdrawal and treading revenue relative to last year. Excluding those items, services revenue was up 8%. Global adjusted EBITDA was $586,000,000 an increase of $38,000,000 year on year.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Global RIM adjusted EBITDA margin of 44.3% was up 40 basis points from last year, driven by operating leverage and revenue management. Turning to our global data center business. Total data center revenue was $189,000,000 in the second quarter, an increase of $37,000,000 year on year. Organic storage rental growth increased 26%, driven by lease commencements and continued strong pricing trends. In the second quarter, new commencements were 23 megawatts and renewed leases totaled 25 megawatts.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Pricing remains strong with renewal pricing spreads of 1320% on a cash and GAAP basis, respectively. Second quarter data center adjusted EBITDA was $96,000,000 up 46%. Adjusted EBITDA margin was up seven sixty basis points from the second quarter of last year. The strong margin expansion in the quarter was primarily driven by improved pricing, recent commencements and operating leverage. For 2025, we expect data center revenue of nearly $800,000,000 which is approaching 30% growth.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Together with the leasing outlook Bill shared, I thought it would be helpful to provide some context about 2026 and beyond. As you would see from our disclosures, we expect to commence a considerable amount of megawatts over the balance of 2025 with more pre leased assets to commence next year. With those factors noted, we expect data center revenue growth in excess of 25% in 2026. I'd like to note that this projection requires no additional leasing. So when we give financial guidance for 2026, I expect data center revenue will be in excess of $1,000,000,000 Turning to asset life cycle management.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Total ALM revenue was $153,000,000 an increase of $63,000,000 or 70% year over year. On an organic basis, our team delivered 42% growth. The ALM business performed well and exceeded our expectations in the quarter, driven by our team's strong execution, volume increases in both our enterprise and data center decommissioning businesses and improved component pricing trends, particularly late in the quarter. On an inorganic basis, our recent acquisitions have performed well and contributed revenue of $25,000,000 We also drove significant improvement in ALM profitability in the quarter, driven by improved operating performance across the business as well as acquisition synergies. Looking ahead, we remain confident in our outlook for growth in the ALM business based on our strong customer wins in both our enterprise and data center decommissioning channels.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Turning to capital deployment. In the second quarter, we invested $477,000,000 with $442,000,000 of growth CapEx and 35,000,000 of recurring CapEx. Turning to our dividend. Our Board of Directors declared our quarterly dividend of $0.07 $85 per share to be paid in early October. On a trailing four quarter basis, our payout ratio is now 63%, in line with our long term target range.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Turning to the balance sheet. With strong EBITDA performance, we ended the quarter with net lease adjusted leverage of five point zero times, in line with our expectations for both the quarter and year end. As you may have seen during the quarter and aligned with our strategy, our team successfully upsized our Term Loan A facility as part of our U. S. Credit agreement by $287,000,000 to $500,000,000 We also upsized our Australian Term Loan B facility by AUD 117,000,000 to AUD 400,000,000 and extended the maturity by four years to 02/1930.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

And now turning to our outlook. Based on our strong second quarter performance and positive outlook, we are increasing our financial guidance for the year. For the full year 2025, we now expect total revenue to be within the range of $6,790,000,000 to $6,940,000,000 which represents year on year growth of 12% at the midpoint. Relative to our prior guidance, we are raising our revenue range by $50,000,000 This increase reflects our strong second quarter results and positive outlook and nearly $10,000,000 resulting from current FX rates. We have also included the India acquisition that Bill mentioned, which we expect will add approximately $8,000,000 to our second half results.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

We now expect adjusted EBITDA to be within the range of $2,520,000,000 to $2,570,000,000 which represents year on year growth of 14% at the midpoint. Relative to our prior guidance, we are raising adjusted EBITDA by $15,000,000 And we now expect AFFO to be within the range of 1,505,000,000.000 to $1,530,000,000 and AFFO per share to be $5.04 to $5.13 At the midpoint, this represents 1312% growth, respectively. For the third quarter, we expect revenue of approximately $1,750,000,000 an increase of 12% to last year adjusted EBITDA in excess of $650,000,000 up more than 14% year on year AFFO of approximately $385,000,000 up 16% and AFFO per share of approximately $1.28 up 13% to last year. In conclusion, we have delivered very strong first half performance with record breaking results across all of our key financial metrics and business segments. Our confidence in the business and our forward outlook is reflected in our increased financial guidance for the year.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

We have a significant runway for growth and remain focused on driving double digit revenue growth over many years supported by our strong cross selling opportunity into what are very large fragmented markets. I want to thank all of our Mountaineers for their continued hard work and dedication in serving our customers and driving our business. And with that, operator, would you please open the line for Q and A?

[Operator]

Thank you. We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your touch tone phone. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star then 2.

[Operator]

And the first question will come from George Tong with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

[George Tong, Senior Research Analyst - Equity Research & Business Services at Goldman Sachs]

Hi, thanks. Good morning. You mentioned the data center signings came in lighter than expected and trimmed your guidance for data center new lease signings. Can you elaborate on what you're seeing in the data center business that's causing the slowdown?

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Good morning, George, thanks for the question. First of all, the market remains very strong. You see it in all the reporting by analysts, we see the same in our discussions with our customers across the globe. That being said, it is fair to say that the discussions that we've been having in the first half, they have been prioritizing their large, campuses supporting where they build their large language models, and that's not a market that we play in. But now we see that they're actually now starting to be, more engaged in our conversations.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

It's becoming increasingly intense or focused on their market where they develop their inference campuses and their cloud build out, which is the market that we play in. So if you kind of look at it is that, you know, the first half of the year, they were building or or prioritizing the building of the large campuses for large language models. And now, they're kind of back to where we play, which is if you think over the next two, three years, we have 500 megawatts coming up across Northern Virginia with 175, Richmond, 200, Amsterdam, 30, Chicago is about 36 Megawatts, and Madrid, 75. So those are the kind of the key markets that we play in, and those are also markets where our customers now are refocusing their efforts as they're building out their cloud and inference.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Eric Luebke with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

[Eric Luebchow, Director - Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

Great. Thanks for taking the question. Just to follow-up on the data center discussion, Bill. Do you think that a lot of this is just timing? Do you suspect that based on the power delivery timelines you have in places like Virginia and Richmond and maybe a kind of shrinking book to bill window from some of the hyperscalers versus a few years ago that the outlook for data center leasing will kind of improve into 2026.

[Eric Luebchow, Director - Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities]

And I guess related to that, given the slightly softer outlook, does this have any impact on how you think about data center CapEx beyond this year?

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

No.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Thanks for the question, Eric. I think that, first, it really has been more of a focus on their larger campuses in AI, you know, large language models for that part of it. Obviously, the inference is more plays in the campuses that that we have. So that's been kind of the primary shift. That being said is that we feel pretty good that over the next two to three years, having both the power availability for 500 megawatts across those key campuses that I mentioned earlier, I think we're in pretty good stead.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

I think in terms of if you think about making sure that we can actually be ready to energize that much faster, which brings our revenue in quicker than, say, previously when you're kind of leasing out two to three years, I think that plays to our strength. But the primary, I think, difference between having the leasing a little bit lighter in the first half of the year has been their focus on the large language models.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

And Eric, I would just, this is Barry, add on to that. And as it relates to capital, I'll just remind you, that the vast majority of our data center growth capital is going to support the construction of pre leased assets. If you look at the next few quarters, we have assets in Arizona that will be completing construction, 100% leased. If you look at what we've got in London, same situation. If you look at what we've got in Northern Virginia, situation.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

All of those assets are 100% pre leased and the clients are looking forward to having the ability to turn on. So no change in terms of the way we're thinking about capital deployment. It's vastly going to support pre leased construction. Thanks.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Shlomo Rosenbaum with Stifel. Please go ahead.

[Shlomo Rosenbaum, Managing Director at Stifel Financial Corp]

Hi, thank you. I just want to pivot a little bit more now to the ALM business, which came on particularly strong, which very good after the last few years. I was just wondering if you could parse the ALM growth in the quarter, how much was enterprise versus data center, how much was volume versus component pricing and just the trajectory that you're seeing from your clients right now? And you going to kind of break that out as a separate unit in the near future given the growth that we're seeing there?

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

So thanks for the question, Shlomo. Let me talk about what we're seeing from our clients, then I'll let Barry comment on the trends and from the financial standpoint. In terms of the discussions with the clients, as I mentioned in a couple of the wins I highlighted, we really, see the synergies that it sits with our 240,000 customers across the globe, including the hyperscale as well as the enterprise. And that's really starting to to drive a lot of traction because it's just natural for us to have a conversation on how to handle their IT assets where we've been handling a lot of their information assets over decades. So the if you see the build that we're, we're able to get with those with those customer conversations, it reflects with the very strong organic, revenue growth that we've seen this quarter.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

I'll let Barry comment a little bit more in terms of the overall financial trends that we see in the business.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Morning, Shlomo. It was very balanced in terms of the growth across the two primary channels. So the enterprise business grew very, very well as did the data center business. And in terms of volume versus price, it was disproportionately volume. As we talked about on the last few calls, we continue to win a lot of business across data center decommissioning.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

And then our cross selling efforts from the large client base we have continues to win really strong books of business on the enterprise side. And as we talked about before, incidentally, the enterprise book of business is a very nice margin business for us and very much an annuity that builds. And so what you're seeing unfold, I think, is the combination of us continuing what is more project oriented work on the data center side and becoming a deeper and deeper partner there together with the natural growth of our wins within enterprise. So volume was the vast driver of the business, and pricing was kind of think about in terms of like single digit million increase year on year. I will note that we have continued to see pricing, particularly on memory, be up some here in the early part of the third quarter.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

And I have not extrapolated that out beyond where it is at this stage. There are certainly indicators that would suggest that there's more opportunity on pricing going forward, but we'll kind of continue to do what we've been doing with that and report it quarterly. So very good volume trends, very strong revenue growth across the business, and we're very pleased with how ALM has continued to support our multiyear growth plan.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Jonathan Atkin with RBC Capital Markets.

[Jonathan Atkin, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets]

Please go ahead. So following up on that topic, hyperscale decommissioning, you mentioned a couple of wins in your prepared remarks. I think one of them you mentioned might have been competitive. But can you talk a little bit about the industry dynamics in a sector that's still fragmented?

[Jonathan Atkin, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets]

And when you win business from a competitor, what are some of the factors behind that? And then what are you seeing in terms of the pipeline going forward for the sector around hyperscale decommissioning? Thanks.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Okay. Good morning. Thanks for the question. I'll talk about the customer behavior and what leads to our wins and then I'll ask Barry to talk about the pipeline. So, yeah, specifically on the on the hyperscale, I think the thing that one of the parts is our secret sauce, I I highlighted one of the wins was that we were we were doing some of the decommissioning and, destruction on-site, is we can do everything either on-site or we can make sure that we can remove it from their site with very secure chain of custody and do it in our location.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

So and we can for some of our customers is they want more destroyed and less reused and resold or refurbished and resold. And others want the other mix is that they almost have everything refurbished and resold. So I think it's really the strength of where we win the business is that we can do it on their site. We have software where we can do part of it on their site and move it into our site so that it's highly secure. We can also we have very strong chain of custody, we can actually decommission it with very high integrity and bring it into our site to do all the work, which is probably the most cost effective.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

And we have the flexibility to reuse and recycle, as much as they want or as little as they want. So I think it's, and then wrapped around, of course, that when we do actually destroy things and, sell it, sell it on a scrap is we do that in an environmentally sensitive and compliant way. So I think it's really the full menu and scale that we're able to operate, And it's not lost on customers. If they use us in one country, almost, certainly, they can use us across the globe just given our footprint.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

John, it's Barry. Just building on that as it relates to the pipeline. Look, pipeline is very good within our ALM business across the business. And I'll start with data center decommissioning. You're right, of course, that the market is huge, call it an $8,000,000,000 TAM just for that segment and very fragmented.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

And I think it why is our pipeline building out and continuing to increase? I think it's because we're seeing the synergistic nature of our ALM data center decommissioning together with our data center development business, where we are operating our largely with the same clients and a level of overlap there. And they see the ALM strength of our offering and how we can help them consistently across what they're doing with their own hyperscale sites. As it relates to the enterprise side, which is the even larger piece of the TAM, we we estimate it to be 22,000,000,000, very fragmented. And we're winning more and more business, and we see our pipeline growing largely built on the same reasons that we have built our physical storage business, which is chain of custody, consistency, ability to serve the client around the world.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

We are continuing to build out our footprint, as you know. And right now, clients are continuing to have to turn to many different small vendors across the world because other than us, there's really no other player with a footprint that's expanding and global in nature. So we are finding, particularly in regulated portions of the customer base, like financial services, health care, insurers, etcetera, that, that is a very compelling message. We're continuing to win business. And as I said before, we're we feel like we have a very long track runway here for growth in ALM.

[Operator]

Your next question will come from Tobey Sommer with Truist. Please go ahead.

[Tobey Sommer, Managing Director at Truist Securities]

Thanks. I wanted to ask a margin question. I think you cited 43% or 47% flow through. Is there anything unusual popping up that figure? And how do you think about the trajectory going forward?

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Tobey, it's Barry. Thank you for that. We did note it was 47% flow through. It's been of that order now for a couple of quarters or more in a row. And part of that is driven off of the fact that, first, our global RIM business is just fundamentally a great business, and it just gushes cash, right?

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

It requires very limited capital to grow. And the blended margin is already in the 44% and rising, thanks to revenue management and our operational team's focus on continuous improvement of productivity and operating leverage. Secondly, as you look at our P and L, a good amount of the EBITDA is continuing to come out of our data center business. That business has now reached 50 plus percent EBITDA margins. We projected that level for some time for it to be rising because we knew that if you look at the commencements that we've been doing this year when we wrote those deals, the underwriting was very good on them.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

And that's the same case for going forward on our commencements that will occur throughout the remainder of this year and next year. They're all underwritten at very strong returns. So we're we're investing in businesses that have very high and increasingly good returns. And I think the margin that you should be anticipating on data center, as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, is 50 and rising going forward, thanks to pricing and the other elements I mentioned. That, together with the fact, Toby, that our ALM business, as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, is seeing significant improvement in trend driven by operating leverage And of course, as the particularly as the enterprise business grows, that's a better mix for us in the ALM portfolio.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

So it's a variety of factors, but really, all of our businesses are continuing to see improving trends in margin, and we are very pleased with the level of flow through.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Brendan Lynch with Barclays. Please go ahead.

[Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays Capital]

Great. Thanks for taking my question. I appreciate the details you gave around the treasury contract, but maybe just help us understand the kind of puts and takes there. If I recall correctly, it was announced on the first quarter call, but it wasn't included in guidance. And then the press release suggested that it was going to be rebid, but now it sounds like you are generating some revenue from it already.

[Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays Capital]

So maybe just walk us through the path there and what we should expect going forward.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Okay. Thanks, Brendan. And I'll let Barry comment in terms of the flow through, in terms of how it comes into the revenue, although I should say there's very not much came in, in Q2 because as we announced on the last call, was just ramping up. So, you know, we're very pleased to win the the initial $140,000,000 contract, and we're executing against that contract.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

And as we sit here today, we're digitizing, you know, the the work the work for the the treasury department. The I think we mentioned on the last call is the contract was always going to be more most of the revenue was gonna come in 2026 because there's a seasonality aspect of this treasury contract. That being said, though, there is work to be done now, and our teams are actually busy digitizing a number of these workflows and documents for the the treasury. Subsequently, the treasury decided to go out for a larger, much longer term contract, which our expectation would assume or subsume this contract over time, and we bid for that and as did others. And, you know, we will see in due course how that bidding or that contract progresses. But in the meantime, we're actually doing the work. But again, the work has always been more loaded into 2026 because of the seasonality. Don't know, Barry, if you wanna add anything about how the revenue flows through this year.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Yeah. Brandon, we as I said on the last call, we didn't anticipate any revenue of substance in the second quarter. I'll I'm happy to tell you we only recognized $1,000,000 of revenue from the, services we were offering in the quarter. In the third quarter, our expectation is for that to be like sub-five million dollars just based on the building, as Bill just mentioned, to a ramp into 2026. So as the larger award is processed by the government, we will be looking forward to updating on the investment community on how that would flow. And, yeah, that's the facts.

[Operator]

Our next question will come from Kevin McVeigh with UBS. Please go ahead.

[Kevin McVeigh, Managing Director at UBS Group]

Great.

[Kevin McVeigh, Managing Director at UBS Group]

Thanks so much, and thanks for all the detail. Can you just Barry or Bill, you said it quick. I just want to make sure on the megawatts kind of the targets this year, is it 20,000,000 to $80,000,000 What was the initial targets? And what have you signed year to date? I just want to make sure I have the numbers down.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

So the the the expected, range for this year, Kevin, is 30 to 80 megawatts, for the year. And you can we're halfway through the year right now. If you look at on a rolling twelve month basis in terms of our pipeline, as I said that we're, in discussions with our customers across a portfolio, say, that's roughly around 500 megawatts that come available in the next two to three years. So that includes Virginia, or Northern Virginia, Richmond, Amsterdam, Chicago, and Madrid. If you look at year to date, it's about six megawatts that we've we we leased.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

And, you know, the discussion is still robust. The prime, markets that we're playing in are the prime markets for our customers, But the first half of the year, for sure, the customers that we serve regularly have been more focused on building out their large language model campuses.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

Yes. And Kevin, I'll just add on to that. When we talk about our revenue guidance for data center approaching 30% this year, that requires no additional leasing because, of course, we generally are a pre leased business here. And so we'll be commencing further assets here in the second half, and those will wrap into next year. And then you can see in the supplemental, we have quite a few assets to commence in 2026.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

So when I mentioned that we expect data center revenue growth of at least 25% next year, that's not assuming any benefit from the leasing activity that Bill just mentioned going forward. So to the extent we lease something that could commence in year, that would just be simply additive to that 25% growth rate next year. So we feel like the data center team is executing very, very well, and we're pleased that the activity in our pipeline is stepping up, as Bill discussed in his prepared remarks. Thanks, Kevin.

[Operator]

The next question will come from Andrew Steinerman with JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

[Alexander Hess, VP - Equity Research at J.P. Morgan]

Hi, guys. This is Alex Hess on for Andrew. Just wanted to review maybe the way you guys are positioned in the data center ecosystem broadly. Obviously, there's been ton of funding for the market of late, including from private capital. But you've also got a sort of tougher reinvestment phase, one of your large competitors where you guys made a large hire from.

[Alexander Hess, VP - Equity Research at J.P. Morgan]

Can you highlight for us just sort of where you feel you were positioned in today's ecosystem, where you're advantaged and maybe, you know, opportunities for you guys to be be an important participant in the next juncture of the AI rollout?

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

Good morning, Alex. Thanks for the question. So I wouldn't say we're in a tougher environment. I would say that the customers that we serve across our campuses have been primarily focused over this last six to twelve months on building out their large campuses that serve their large language models. That being said, if you if you think about the data center market is now with AI being such a big part, there's where they build their large language models, and then there's where they run them in their cloud infrastructure and where they can do inference.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

And it's the inference in the cloud infrastructure is where we play, and they're now starting to pivot their attention back to that. So if you think about, where we play and where we have really, I I would say, prime properties is the 500 megawatts that I talked about that come available in the next two to three years. Again, that's in Northern Virginia, which is the largest data center in the market in the world, and it's a place where people just can't get enough capacity. Richmond, we think, is gonna be we already see a lot of strong interest in the 200 megawatts that we have, that will come onboard in the next two to three years in Richmond. Amsterdam, for instance, 30 megawatts in Amsterdam is like gold these days.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

There's just no capacity in Amsterdam. So we're really, finding that we get a lot of attention and attraction on that market as they're now starting to need more capacity into that market as they run their inference in in cloud and build out their cloud. And then Chicago also has become a key market for a number of our customers as well as Madrid. So we feel I wouldn't say that the competition has gotten tougher as opposed to some of our competitors is I think what I'm focused on or we're focused on is really that AI inference and cloud build out, not so much in terms of the low latency, what I would call retail side of it. That's not that's not the business that we play in.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

I mean, we do have some data centers that, support our customers in those areas, like Amsterdam, what I mentioned because, or Frankfurt because of the the location of those data centers. But for the most part is the I wouldn't say the competition has gotten tougher. If anything, the power that we have available available, you know, 500 megawatts is is is really a differentiator in the market.

[Operator]

The next question is a follow-up from Shlomo Rosenbaum with Stifel. Please go ahead.

[Shlomo Rosenbaum, Managing Director at Stifel Financial Corp]

Hi, thank you. I just want to ask if you can talk a little bit more about the growth in the digital business. How much was it, you know, some of the additional capabilities that are being added in? And with those additional capabilities, how differentiated is what you have versus no other, you know, items that are out there in the market?

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

No. Thanks, Andrew. I think that, you know, first of all, we feel really good about what our teams are building in that digital business. And you've been watching this space a long time. It started off as more digitizing physical documents, and now it really is end to end workflow.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

And a lot of the workflow is already born natively digitally. So I think a good example of really the secret sauce that we've been able to build with this DXP platform is, highlighted in the win I I mentioned on the SaaS company. So this is a SaaS company, which itself is a is an AI company. And they came to our they came to us because this digital experience platform is really unique in being able to put structure around unstructured data. And this was this is actually data that's already in digital form.

[William Meaney, President & CEO at Iron Mountain]

And I think that's really where we're playing and getting a lot of, traction because people are sitting on tons and tons of unstructured data, which is effectively dark unless they have an engine that can automatically generate metadata without a human in the loop and then be able to build workflow on top of that. And so it's really what's driving the, the strong double digit growth that we're getting in that business. And this year, we're projecting a run rate of over $500 $540,000,000 Yeah.

[Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO at Iron Mountain]

That's exactly right, Shlomo. Based on the second quarter, we'd be at that kind of level of run rate. And, obviously, the business has a very good trajectory. And I think the source of opportunities that we are bidding on and actively positioning ourselves against with respect to things like the Department of Treasury, among others, has the potential to significantly expand our digital business quickly.

[Operator]

And this will conclude our question and answer session and the Iron Mountain second quarter twenty twenty five earnings conference call. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

Participants

Executives

• Mark Rupe, SVP & Head - IR
• William Meaney, President & CEO
• Barry Hytinen, EVP & CFO

Analysts

• George Tong, Senior Research Analyst - Equity Research & Business Services at Goldman Sachs
• Eric Luebchow, Director - Senior Equity Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities
• Shlomo Rosenbaum, Managing Director at Stifel Financial Corp
• Jonathan Atkin, Managing Director at RBC Capital Markets
• Tobey Sommer, Managing Director at Truist Securities
• Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays Capital
• Kevin McVeigh, Managing Director at UBS Group
• Alexander Hess, VP - Equity Research at J.P. Morgan