CDW: Fitchburg

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CDW: Fitchburg

Year Built: 1999
Utility Provider: Madison Gas and Electric
Ownership: CDW promega corporation owns the building since may 2024. the building.
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Berbee Information Networks added a bunker to its Fitchburg headquarters in 1999 to house its first data center, and it sold colocation there from 2000. CDW bought Berbee in 2006 and kept the data center running as CDW Berbee. The data center had raised floors, two utility services from redundant substations and a backup generator.

CDW later left the building, and brokers marketed it, with its former data center, from 2020. Promega bought the building in 2024.

Site History

  • May 2024: Promega buys the building.
  • August 2020: Brokers list the building and its former data center.
  • 2006: CDW buys Berbee Information Networks.
  • November 2000: Berbee sells colocation from the data center.
  • 1999: Berbee adds the data center bunker to its headquarters.

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0.79 miles US Signal: WI02 Madison
US Signal's WI02 data center at 5515 Nobel Drive in Fitchburg, just south of Madison, Wisconsin, is the largest colocation facility in the Madison market. US Signal bought it with OneNeck from TDS in 2024.
2.58 miles AT&T: 2002 Reetz Rd
4.26 miles AT&T: 2802 Sylvan Ave
4.50 miles AT&T: 1001 Spring St
4.58 miles Lumen Madison 1
Lumen Madison 1 is a Lumen colocation and network site in the Sunkist Building at 612 West Main Street in Madison, Wisconsin.
4.61 miles UW-Madison: DoIT Data Center
UW-Madison's DoIT data center fills the basement of the Computer Sciences and Statistics building at 1210 West Dayton Street. It hosts campus research computing and one of the two Madison Internet Exchange (MadIX) switches.
5.03 miles 5Nines
5NINES runs a colocation data center in Suite 170 of Network222, the carrier hotel at 222 West Washington Avenue in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. ResTech Services has owned the 5NINES data center business since October 2023.
5.04 miles AT&T: 122 W Main St
5.04 miles Network222
Network222 is the ten-story carrier hotel at 222 West Washington Avenue on Madison's Capitol Square. It houses the 5NINES and US Signal data centers and a Madison Internet Exchange (MadIX) switch.
5.05 miles US Signal: WI01 Madison
US Signal's WI01 data center occupies Suite 1 of the Network222 carrier hotel on Madison's Capitol Square and anchors the company's Wisconsin fiber network.
5.74 miles Lumen: 710 E Mifflin St
6.68 miles AT&T: 729 Pflaum Rd
6.91 miles SupraNet Madison
SupraNet runs a SOC 2 Type II colocation data center at 8000 Excelsior Drive on Madison's west side, serving more than 100 customers.
7.12 miles Dane County Data Exchange I
Dane County Data Exchange I is a carrier-neutral data center building at 4916 East Broadway in Madison, Wisconsin, home to EdgeConneX's Madison edge data center and shell space for lease.
7.14 miles EdgeConnex Madison
EdgeConneX's MAD01 edge data center occupies a pod in the Dane County Data Exchange I building at 4916 East Broadway in Madison, Wisconsin.
7.25 miles Epic Systems: Verona
Epic Systems' primary data center is an underground facility on the company's Verona, Wisconsin, campus that hosts electronic health records for Epic's client health systems.
7.29 miles T-Mobile: Madison
7.61 miles TDS: 1912 Parmenter St, Middleton
7.76 miles AT&T: 215 Kedzie St
7.77 miles TDS: Middleton Data Center
The former TDS Data Center occupies Suite 230 of the Wisconsin Trade Center office building at 8401 Greenway Boulevard in Middleton, Wisconsin. TDS has since left, and the landlord markets the suite for lease.
8.09 miles Wisconsin DET: Femrite Data Center
The Femrite Data Center at 5830 Femrite Drive in Madison is the State of Wisconsin's primary data center, run by the Department of Administration's Division of Enterprise Technology since 2006.
12.66 miles American Family Insurance: Madison HQ
American Family Insurance runs an enterprise data center at its national headquarters campus at 6000 American Parkway in Madison, Wisconsin.
15.20 miles QBE: Sun Prairie
QBE's former data center sits in Building 300 of its former General Casualty campus at 1 QBE Way in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. QBE sold the campus in 2025, and the space is now marketed for lease.
15.78 miles MHTC: 200 E Main St, Mount Horeb
16.31 miles Verizon: 117 N Bristol St, Sun Prairie
17.20 miles Brightspeed: 145 E Holum St, DeForest
17.65 miles QTS: Vienna, Wisconsin
QTS Data Centers proposed a large data center campus in the Town of Vienna, north of Madison, Wisconsin, in 2025. It withdrew in 2026 and chose a site in Iowa.
17.82 miles QTS: Vienna Expansion
Later phases of QTS Data Centers' proposed campus in the Town of Vienna, Wisconsin, withdrawn in 2026 when QTS chose a site in Iowa.

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