Expedient Franklin

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Expedient Franklin

This site is leased from StratCap Data Centers in the StratCap: 4777 Ironwood building

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Expedient has taken over a former Harley-Davidson data center in the City of Franklin, Wisconsin.

The 28,500 sq ft (2,650 sqm) facility, located in Milwaukee County, offers 1.2MW of critical power and capacity for more than 8,000 physical servers. The company said it can expand the available floorspace from 5,000 sq ft (465 sqm) to 10,000 sq ft (929 sqm).

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4777 W Ironwood

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Distance	Site	About
0.01 miles	StratCap: 4777 Ironwood	StratCap’s data center real estate division, StratCap Data Centers, announced today that it completed the acquisition of a 28,500 square foot (2,650 sqm) data center that is fully leased on a triple-net basis located outside Milwaukee in Franklin.
0.30 miles	MilwaukeeColo
6.65 miles	Hub MaxInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft has officially withdrawn its plans for the "Project Nova" data center in Caledonia, Wisconsin, following significant community opposition.
10.13 miles	TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham
10.55 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft acquired 28.6 acres for $5.73 million from Randall and Louise Borgardt in Racine County, Wisconsin.
10.58 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft acquired 70.9 acres of mostly vacant farm land for $12.75 million from the Thomas A. Hribar Sr. Revocable Trust in Racine County, Wisconsin.
11.09 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft has purchased another 32 acres of undeveloped land at 12721 Louis Sorenson Road in Mount Pleasant.
11.11 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft bought this parcel from Peter Zenner Family Farm LLC for $43.4 million.
11.13 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft acquired 5.9 acres for $7.3m from Randall and Louise Borgardt in Racine County, Wisconsin.
11.14 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	In 2024, Microsoft acquired one acre for $900,000 from Ronald Smith in Racine County, Wisconsin.
11.83 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
11.93 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	In early 2026, Microsoft received approval to establish a further 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.
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13.57 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft has completed the purchase of an additional 1,000 acres of land for its Mount Pleasant data center campus in Racine County, Wisconsin.
13.70 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
13.75 miles	Cloud StationInterested in this information?Contact us	The Wisconsin facility was first announced in March 2023 and is set on a 315-acre parcel.
15.87 miles	Gorman & Company: Milwaukee, WI	The project in Milwaukee is an adaptive reuse master plan transforming a vacant, 160,000 sqft former Walmart into a mixed-use commercial and community hub.
16.46 miles	Hub UltraInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft has acquired 240 additional acres in Wisconsin for data centers, near its Mount Pleasant project that was paused in early 2025.
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Operating Company

Expedient is a provider of cloud and data center infrastructure as a service (IaaS) with local operations in Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN; Memphis, TN and Pittsburgh, PA.

Expedient History

Sep 2001 Founded as US VoiceData. (Cleveland, Ohio)
Dec 2001 Acquired RMRC. (Cleveland, Ohio)
Apr 2002 Acquired Expedient. (Cleveland, South Florida)
May 2002 Acquired Yipes Markets. (Boston, Miami, PIttsburgh)
Feb 2003. Acquired 6 Verio Markets.(Ohio, Tampa, Sacramento, Syracuse, Topeka)
Jun 2003. Acquired APK. (Northeast Ohio)
Oct 2003 Acquired Stargate. (Pittsburgh, Erie and Hagerstown, MD)
Oct 2005 Acquired by Continental Broadband, a Landmark Communications Company
Feb 2007 Acquired Data Center business of SafeCore (Boston, MA)
Jan 2007 Expanded into Indianapolis via our sister company, nFrame
Feb 2008 Over $1 million in expansion in Cleveland
May 2008 Expedient expands to 2nd data center in Pittsburgh (Allegheny Center Mall)
Aug 2008 Invests in a $4.8 Million build of 2nd data center (Cleveland)
Aug 2008 Became PCI-DSS compliant through self-attestation
Dec 2008 All offices become interconnected with a 10GB fiber backbone
Oct 2009 Opened 2nd Data center (Cleveland)
Dec 2009 Launch Operations Support Center (OSC)
Dec 2010 Opened first Columbus data center- 14,000 square feet
Jan 2011 Expand Boston Data Center by 3,600 square feet
Feb-Jul 2011 Multi million dollar power plant upgrade (Cleveland and Pittsburgh)
Dec 2011 Expansion of 2nd Baltimore Data center- 10,000 additional square feet
Apr 2012 Expansion of 152 Cleveland data center- 7,000 additional square feet
Nov 2013 Second Baltimore Data Center opened in Owings Mills area – 21,000 square feet
Dec 2013 Expansion of Pittsburgh ACM Data center- additional 8,000 square feet for a total of 30,000 square feet of space
Feb 2014 Expedient named to CRN top data center list for second year in a row
Sept 2014 Announcement of 2nd Columbus Data Center in Dublin, Ohio to be built from the ground up
Oct 2014 Announcement of 7th market, Memphis, TN with an open date of mid-year 2015
Jan 2015 151 NEO facility data center expansion completed – 6,000 sq ft added
July 2015 Opened First Memphis Data Center
Nov 2015 Opened Second Columbus Data Center in Dublin, OH
Nov 2015 Achievement of Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Attestation of Compliance (AOC) for Report on Compliance (ROC) from Qualified Security Assessor (QSA)
March 2016 Expansion of Boston data center (8,000 sq. ft.)
July 2016 Offers SlimLine Cage for colocation
August 2016 Offers Push Button DR 2.0 with Software Defined Networking
September 2016 Offers On-Site Private Cloud with Disaster Recovery as a Service
June 2017 Receives recognition in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service
Receives recognition as a Top 10 MSP Worldwide from MSP Mentor
December 2017 Expansion of Pittsburgh ACM (Nova Place) data center (10,000 sq. ft.)
Expansion of Indianapolis data center (3,500 sq. ft.)
February 2018 Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 list
May 2018 Named Zerto’s Growth Partner of the Year – Cloud Services Provider
June 2018 Named #7 managed services provider in the world on the MSP 501 Completed network backbone upgrade to 100 Gbp/s
July 2018 Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service

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Expedient expands with Addition of New Milwaukee Data Center

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Expedient has acquired a new data center in Franklin City, Wisconsin. The facility has 28,500 square feet of space, and it offers 1.2MW of critical power. It also has the capacity for over 8,000 physical servers. The facility will help Expedient serve its growing customer demand for cloud-based,...

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