WIN Technology runs a colocation data center in Building 2 of Banbury Place, the former Uniroyal tire plant north of downtown Eau Claire. WIN rebuilt a 1990-era Sequent and IBM data center there and opened it in 2007. The room has diverse utility feeds and two diesel generators in a 2N design. Data Holdings also markets colocation in the room.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.35 miles | AT&T: 304 S Dewey St, Eau Claire |
AT&T's main telephone exchange in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the hub of the city's wireline network.
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| 9.79 miles | AT&T: 21 E Columbia St, Chippewa Falls |
AT&T's telephone exchange in downtown Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
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| 18.98 miles | Balloonist: Red Cedar, WI |
Balloonist LLC owns about 310 acres in Menomonie, Wisconsin, for a proposed $1.6 billion data center campus. The project is on hold while the city writes data center zoning rules.
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WIN Technology, legally WIN, LLC and originally named Wisconsin Independent Network, is owned by 31 independent telephone companies in Wisconsin. The company is headquartered in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with offices in Brookfield, Wisconsin and Urbandale, Iowa. Scott Hoffmann serves as chief executive officer.
WIN owns and operates more than 20,000 miles of fiber in the Upper Midwest. It sells dark fiber, dedicated internet access, Ethernet, optical wavelengths and network services, along with managed IT, cloud, cybersecurity and colocation. Its colocation data centers in Eau Claire and Green Bay offer rack units, cabinets and private caged space.
September 26, 2025 Wisconsin
A data center development in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has been delayed. In a meeting on September 22, Mayor Randy Knaack said that he had drafted a memo to developer Balloonist LLC stating that the city was no longer interested in pursuing the project.“I’m not thrilled about the data center coming...
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February 22, 2023 Wisconsin
Northwestern Mutual is abandoning its campus in Franklin, Wisconsin, on the outskirts of Milwaukee, as part of a $500 million effort to relocate to an office complex in downtown Milwaukee. Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, this is partially due to the fact that the corporation no longer needs...
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