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Year Built: 2001
Utility Provider: We Energies
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3.32 miles Expedient Franklin
Expedient runs MKE1, its Milwaukee-area data center, at 4777 West Ironwood Drive in Franklin, Wisconsin. Expedient opened the former Harley-Davidson data center in 2021 and leases the whole building from StratCap Data Centers.
3.33 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.
3.51 miles MilwaukeeColo
6.06 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.
7.02 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.
7.21 miles PlazaInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
9.30 miles AT&T: 918 N 26th St
9.36 miles Netwurx 324 E Wisconsin
9.36 miles TSR 324 E Wisconsin
9.36 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.
9.37 miles Cogent: 324 E Wisconsin
9.38 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.
9.40 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.
9.43 miles Windstream Milwaukee
9.53 miles AT&T: 6812 Aetna Ct
9.73 miles Vaultas Milwaukee
9.73 miles Verizon Wireless: New Berlin
10.66 miles Windstream Brookfield
11.63 miles AT&T: 405 N Fairway Dr
12.85 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.
12.88 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.
13.52 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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14.54 miles AT&T: 7721 W Fond du Lac Ave
14.72 miles Central CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
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15.01 miles Johnson Controls: Glendale
15.05 miles Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
15.20 miles AT&T: 411 7th St, Racine
15.30 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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15.49 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.
15.68 miles AT&T: 220 Wisconsin Ave, Waukesha
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16.15 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.
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16.55 miles Lumen Milwaukee 1
17.05 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.
17.24 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.
17.93 miles AT&T: W277 S4747 Saylesville Rd
18.82 miles FIS: Brown Deer
FIS owns a data center on its 20-acre former Metavante campus at 4900 West Brown Deer Road in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee. Ascent operates the facility.
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Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries. As a mutual company it is owned by its policyowners, not shareholders, and it is headquartered at 720 East Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee. It works through more than 21,000 financial advisors and teams, has more than 8,000 employees and serves more than five million clients. The company reports more than $40 billion in revenues and ranked 109 on the 2026 Fortune 500.

In 2001 the company moved staff to a campus in Franklin, Wisconsin, in part because the site suited its data center.

Northwestern Mutual History:

  • In February 2025, Tim Gerend became chairman of the Board of Trustees.
  • In January 2025, Tim Gerend became chief executive officer.
  • In February 2023, Northwestern Mutual announced it would leave its Franklin campus and on-site data center and move those staff to downtown Milwaukee, as cloud computing had removed the need for a separate data center.
  • In March 1859, the company moved from Janesville to Milwaukee.
  • Founded in 1857 in Janesville, Wisconsin.
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