Heartland Business Systems runs a colocation data center at its headquarters in the Little Chute industrial park, in the Fox Valley. HBS also offers colocation in Phoenix. The data center has two diesel generators, two UPS systems and glycol free cooling.
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| 6.12 miles | AT&T: 221 W Washington St, Appleton |
AT&T's main telephone exchange in downtown Appleton, Wisconsin, the hub of the city's wireline network.
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| 6.83 miles | Ark: Green Bay |
Ark Data Centers (formerly Involta) is expanding its Fox Valley campus at the former Kimberly-Clark site toward up to 20 MW of colocation capacity.
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| 9.23 miles | Verizon Wireless: Grand Chute |
Verizon Wireless runs a mobile switching center on West College Avenue in Grand Chute, near Appleton, Wisconsin.
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| 9.70 miles | Cloverleaf: Greenleaf AI DC |
The plans for a massive 500-acre data center campus in Greenleaf, Wisconsin, have come to an abrupt halt after Cloverleaf Infrastructure officially withdrew its proposal.
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| 10.38 miles | T-Mobile: Fox Crossing |
A former UScellular mobile switching center in Fox Crossing, near Neenah and Menasha, Wisconsin, now part of T-Mobile.
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| 16.43 miles | Ethoplex: Ledgeview |
Ethoplex operates a small edge data center at a tower site in the Town of Ledgeview, south of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Heartland Business Systems (HBS) is a privately held company backed by GenNx360 Capital Partners, a New York private equity firm that acquired it in 2025. HBS was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Little Chute, Wisconsin. It serves enterprise, small and mid-sized business, government, education and healthcare clients across the Midwestern United States.
The company provides managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, collaboration and custom software services. It also offers colocation in its own data centers in Little Chute and Phoenix, Arizona. HBS reports more than 675 full-time employees, including more than 400 certified engineers, and more than 3,200 customers. Jimmy Buddenberg serves as chief executive officer.
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