Saw this building while looking for property in this area and even on Google Earth it doesn't give much detail? Just curious if anyone has any ideas? Looks like ~30-40,000 SF. Driveway under structure. Backup generators.

I did find something online that said Level 3 Bandon data center. Why would you put a Data center that close to the coast? And on such expensive real estate?

Posting here since the OB is the best board

43.251839705156165, -124.38537994851268

https://clui.org/ludb/site/att-bandon-cable-landing-station

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This facility is located above the beach where two transpacific submarine fiber optic communication cables, known as the China-US Cable Network and TCP-5, come ashore. The cables remain buried under the beach and up the bluff, until they enter the buildings here, which house equipment that maintains and processes the signals, and connects them to the national communications grid. The China-US Cable Network cable went online in 2000, and was the largest trans-pacific cable system at the time. It includes a link to another cable landing site near San Luis Obispo, in California, as well as two landing sites in China, and branches connecting to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Guam. The TCP-5 cable went online in 1996, and links six landing sites, including ones in Japan, Guam, Hawaii, and here. The cables are owned by different consortiums of international communications companies, but the Bandon Cable Landing Station is owned by AT&T. It is one of a dozen or so cable-landing stations on the west coast of the United States, which together contain nearly all of the internet and telephone connectivity between the US and the rest of the world, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. There is another, smaller landing station building on this road, for the cable known as FASTER, which makes a landing on the shore here as well.

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https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/stations/north-america/usa-west/faster-bandon-cls

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FASTER Bandon Cable Landing Station is located at 96614 Wickizer Way, Bandon, OR 97411. The Bandon CLS for FASTER cable system is a data center of CenturyLink (formerly Level3). And the colocation data center is not carrier neutral. With CenturyLink's backhaul services, FASTER cable system reaches major hubs on the US West Coast covering the Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle areas.

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[url=http://www.fiberatlantic.com/cls/v2EV][/url]
http://www.fiberatlantic.com/cls/v2EV


That's all I could find, same as you. I presume it is where it is because that's where it made sense to lay the trans-pacific cable and that the value of the land is just pennies compared to what the overall investment is. But I'm just guessing.

Thanks Centerpole! Looks like you are correct and makes sense.