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6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

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The interim condensed consolidated financial statements are presented herein and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments of a normal recurring nature necessary for a fair presentation. Interim results are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year. Iron Mountain Incorporated, a Delaware corporation ("IMI"), and its subsidiaries ("we" or "us"), help organizations around the world protect their information, reduce storage rental costs, comply with regulations, facilitate corporate disaster recovery, and better use their information and information technology ("IT") infrastructure for business advantages, regardless of its format, location or life cycle stage. We do this by storing physical records and data backup media, offering information management solutions, and providing data center space for enterprise-class colocation and opportunistic hyperscale data center deployments. We offer comprehensive records and information management services and data management services, along with the expertise and experience to address complex storage and information management challenges such as rising storage rental costs, legal and regulatory compliance, and disaster recovery requirements. We provide secure and reliable data center facilities to protect digital information and ensure the continued operation of our customers’ IT infrastructure, with reliable and flexible deployment options.

The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared pursuant to the rules and regulations of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") have been omitted pursuant to those rules and regulations, but we believe that the disclosures included herein are adequate to make the information presented not misleading. The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto, which are included herein, should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 2019 included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 13, 2020 (our "Annual Report").

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus (“COVID-19”) was reported to have surfaced in Wuhan, China. In January 2020, COVID-19 spread to other countries, including the United States, and the World Health Organization subsequently declared COVID-19 a pandemic. This resulted in U.S. federal, state and local and foreign governments and private entities mandating various restrictions, including travel restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay-at-home orders and advisories and the quarantining of people who may have been exposed to the virus ("Mandated Restrictions"). In response, we temporarily closed certain of our offices and facilities across the world and implemented certain travel restrictions for our employees. While we have since reopened the majority of the offices and facilities that had been temporarily closed, Mandated Restrictions in certain locations and certain travel restrictions we have imposed for employees remain in place, which continue to disrupt how we operate our business. The preventative and protective actions that governments have ordered, or we have implemented as an organization, have resulted in a period of reduced operations and business disruption for us, our customers and other third parties with which we do business. The broader impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our financial position, results of operations and cash flows, including impacts to estimates used throughout this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Quarterly Report”), remain uncertain and difficult to predict as information continues to rapidly evolve, and the severity and duration of the pandemic remains unknown, as is our visibility to its effect on the markets we serve and our customers within those markets. See Note 2.b. and Note 2.d. for additional information.

In October 2019, we announced our global program designed to better position us for future growth and achievement of our strategic objectives (“Project Summit”). The activities associated with Project Summit began in the fourth quarter of 2019 and are expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2021. See Note 10.

We have been organized and have operated as a real estate investment trust for United States federal income tax purposes ("REIT") beginning with our taxable year ended December 31, 2014.