The Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) houses some of its servers in a data center in Omaha, Nebraska, owned by the family office of a longtime Midwestern media mogul.
The existence of the server might sound like an unsurprising technicality, given that TMTG is an online media company. But TMTG often keeps these relationships close to its chest. It has redacted mention of 1623 Farnam in the majority of its SEC filings. Fortune found mention of the 1623 Farnam facility in a footnote of a contract between TMTG and one of its vendors, WorldConnect Technologies. In that agreement, WorldConnect was due 2.5 million shares of TMTG stock at the opening of the first data center at 1623 Farnam’s location in Omaha.
The relationship adds detail to the business partners and structure of TMTG, which comprises a major portion of President Donald Trump’s personal net worth.
1623 Farnam declined to comment on the record for this story. TMTG did not respond to a request for comment.
While the president may have made the majority of his fortune as a real estate developer and TV personality, in reality he is now a technology mogul. In his past life, his business relationships may have been with companies that poured cement or fitted I-beams for skyscrapers. Now they are with technology vendors that develop the content delivery networks that power streaming content or with data center providers like 1623 Farnam.
These companies are not household names, nor do they provide services that ordinary consumers of social media apps or streaming services consider as they use them in their daily lives. Yet they are crucial to the operations of any tech company, including TMTG. Given Trump’s financial stake in TMTG and his current role as President of the United States they present new possible conflicts of interest that are unique to the 21st century.
1623 Farnam provides TMTG access to the networking capabilities that allow it to connect to the internet. In the telecommunications industry companies such as 1623 Farnam are known as “carrier hotels,” which are physical locations that serve as meeting points for the many networks that make up the internet.
“The internet is not a single network,” said University of Massachusetts computer science professor Ramesh Sitamaran. “It is a collection of a large number of independent networks. For [information] to be sent from one place on the internet to another, it has to go through a number of independent networks. So, you need places where networks can physically ‘meet’ each other to exchange [information]. Carrier hotels facilitate that meeting.”
Carrier hotels were early precursors to cloud computing, but still remain critical pieces of technology infrastructure that are crucial to how the internet operates. Because they connect many different networks in a single location they are often found in downtown areas of big cities, meaning that there are relatively few of them, which in turn has made them valuable investment opportunities.
The BERKS Group bought 1623 Farnam in 2018 for an undisclosed price. At the time, the company was known as Nebraska Data Center. The BERKS Group pledged to invest $30 million over five years in 1623 Farnam when it purchased the company.
As TMTG continues to build up its technology stack, it has developed commercial relationships with little-known business-to-business companies, such as 1623 Farnam. Despite being unfamiliar to most, these companies now play a significant role in the operations of TMTG.
In November 2024, TMTG announced all of its data centers were fully operational. The contract with WorldConnect grants it further stock incentives for five total data centers. It was not clear where those additional data centers are located or whether they were all operational.
The Bradley family also has a history of making personal donations to Republican candidates over the years, according to data from the Federal Election Commission and Open Secrets. From 2014 to 2024, the six family members employed at the BERKS Group gave at least $76,000 to various Republican candidates in total. None of the Bradley family members have donated directly to any of President Donald Trump’s three presidential campaigns, according to the records reviewed by Fortune.
Two family members, Rall Bradley and Eric Bradley, also donate regularly to Democratic candidates, including in the most recent election cycle, according to data from Open Secrets. The family also donates to the political arm of the broadcast industry’s D.C. lobbying group, the National Association of Broadcasters, which backs both Republican and Democratic candidates.
