Expedient Franklin

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Expedient Franklin

Year Built: 2021

Utility Provider: We Energies

Ownership: Expedient Data Centers leases the whole building at 4777 west ironwood drive from stratcap data centers (stratcap: 4777 ironwood). the building.

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

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2008: Harley-Davidson built the data center.
2012: NTT bought the building.
2021: Expedient opened the facility as its Milwaukee data center, MKE1.
August 2022: StratCap Data Centers bought the building for $9.5 million on a long-term triple-net lease to Expedient.
2026: Expedient's data hall covers about 10,000 sq ft of raised floor.

Project Profile

Owner: StratCap Data Centers
Operator: Expedient
Building: about 28,500 sq ft on 2.64 acres
Power: 2N UPS; two 1.5 MW diesel generators
Utility: We Energies

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0.01 miles	StratCap: 4777 Ironwood	4777 West Ironwood Drive in Franklin, Wisconsin, is a 28,500 sq ft data center built in 2008 for Harley-Davidson. StratCap Data Centers bought it in 2022, and Expedient leases the whole building as its Milwaukee facility.
0.27 miles	MilwaukeeColo
3.32 miles	Northwestern Mutual: Franklin
6.65 miles	NorthInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
9.38 miles	Cogent: Milwaukee 2	Cogent Communications runs its Milwaukee 2 data center at 2915 South 5th Court in Milwaukee's Bay View area, in a former Sprint network building. The site offers about 3,900 sq ft of colocation with UPS and generator backup.
10.13 miles	TierPoint Milwaukee-Burnham	TierPoint runs a Tier III colocation and business-continuity data center at 3701 West Burnham Street on Milwaukee's south side. The site came to TierPoint with its 2016 purchase of Cosentry and offers about 3,600 sq ft of raised floor.
10.55 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
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11.03 miles	Verizon Wireless: New Berlin
11.09 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
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11.90 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.92 miles	ProInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.93 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
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12.19 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
12.39 miles	AT&T: 6812 Aetna Ct
12.42 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
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12.49 miles	AT&T: 918 N 26th St
12.55 miles	Data Holdings Milwaukee	Data Holdings runs a Tier III colocation data center at 3135 West Highland Boulevard in Milwaukee. The Forest County Potawatomi Community owns the business. The two-story building opened in 2013, added a 7,500 sq ft suite in 2019 and has hosted the MKE-IX internet exchange since 2025.
12.62 miles	Windstream Brookfield
12.66 miles	Netwurx 324 E Wisconsin
12.66 miles	TSR 324 E Wisconsin
12.67 miles	1547: Wells Building	The Wells Building at 324 East Wisconsin Avenue is a 15-story carrier hotel in downtown Milwaukee. 1547 Critical Systems Realty bought the 1901 building in 2020 and runs it as a multi-tenant data center and interconnection hub.
12.67 miles	Cogent: 324 E Wisconsin
12.68 miles	AT&T: 722 N Broadway	AT&T's Broadway central office at 722-740 North Broadway in downtown Milwaukee is the main telephone exchange of Wisconsin Bell and its former headquarters. Reign Capital bought the 20-story 1930 tower and its 1953 annex in 2021, and AT&T leases them back.
12.73 miles	Windstream Milwaukee
13.02 miles	Vaultas Milwaukee
13.31 miles	Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin	The Globe is Foxconn Industrial Internet's high-performance computing data center on Foxconn's Wisconn Valley campus at 12001 Braun Road in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The domed building opened in 2021, beside a modular data center on the same campus.
13.34 miles	Valley OneInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.45 miles	Core PointInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.47 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.48 miles	AT&T: 405 N Fairway Dr
13.57 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.61 miles	AT&T: 411 7th St, Racine
13.70 miles	Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.75 miles	East StationInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
14.37 miles	Fiserv: Brookfield	Fiserv runs a data center in its former headquarters campus at 255 Fiserv Drive in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Fiserv kept the data center when it moved its headquarters to downtown Milwaukee in 2023, and put the 186,000 sq ft campus up for sale in 2024.
15.87 miles	Affordable Family Storage: Midtown Milwaukee	Affordable Family Storage proposed a 19,000 sq ft computing facility inside the former Walmart at 5825 West Hope Avenue in Milwaukee's Midtown neighborhood. It dropped the data center in July 2026 after community opposition, and the redevelopment went ahead with housing, a library branch and self-storage.
16.31 miles	AT&T: 220 Wisconsin Ave, Waukesha
16.51 miles	Point BetaInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
17.43 miles	AT&T: 7721 W Fond du Lac Ave
17.64 miles	AT&T: W277 S4747 Saylesville Rd
18.14 miles	Lumen Milwaukee 1
18.19 miles	Johnson Controls: Glendale
18.24 miles	AT&T: 5825 N 99th St	AT&T built a mobile switching center at 5825 North 99th Street in Milwaukee in 1995. The site closed and sold at the end of 2025, and the 29,500 sq ft building now markets for sale or lease as the 99th Street Technology Center.
18.32 miles	Mapletree: N15 W24250 Riverwood	N15 W24250 Riverwood Drive in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, is a two-story, 142,952 sq ft data center built in 1985 with about 40,000 sq ft of raised floor. AT&T used the building for decades. It is now vacant and offered for lease.
19.61 miles	OFFSITE: Kenosha	OFFSITE runs a Tier III colocation and managed IT data center campus at 3618 7th Avenue in Kenosha, Wisconsin, between Chicago and Milwaukee. The five-acre campus has two buildings, has operated since 2001 and serves more than 100 clients.
19.61 miles	ExcalTech: Kenosha
19.97 miles	Aventus: Milwaukee (Lakes)	Aventus Lakes is a Tier III, SOC 2 Type 2 colocation facility in the Granville Station area of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a 26,432 sq ft building-in-a-building masonry structure on 2 acres. In data-center use since about 2007 (formerly VCPI/Agility Colo) and acquired by Aventus Data Centers (a division of Vincent Companies) in 2022, it offers single-cabinet, cage, and private-suite colocation.

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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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