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Wisconsin DET: Femrite Data Center
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Utility Provider: Madison Gas and Electric
Ownership: Wisconsin Department of Administration
owned by the state of wisconsin department of administration since 2016. the building.
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The Femrite Data Center is the State of Wisconsin's primary data center, run by the Department of Administration's Division of Enterprise Technology on Madison's southeast side. Lokre Development built it for the state under a 2005 agreement, and the state leased it until it bought the building in 2016. It holds state agency systems, and UW-Madison has colocated there since 2021. The building pairs office space with the production floor and has a fenced equipment yard.
Site History
- 2021: UW-Madison begins colocating in the data center.
- June 2016: The State of Wisconsin buys the building from Lokre Data Center LLC for $22.5 million.
- April 2006: State staff move into the new data center.
- August 2005: The State Building Commission approves the lease for the new data center.
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Sites within 15 miles of Wisconsin DET: Femrite Data Center
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.96 miles | EdgeConnex Madison |
EdgeConneX's MAD01 edge data center occupies a pod in the Dane County Data Exchange I building at 4916 East Broadway in Madison, Wisconsin.
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| 0.98 miles | Dane County Data Exchange I |
Dane County Data Exchange I is a carrier-neutral data center building at 4916 East Broadway in Madison, Wisconsin, home to EdgeConneX's Madison edge data center and shell space for lease.
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| 1.71 miles | T-Mobile: Madison | |
| 2.05 miles | AT&T: 729 Pflaum Rd | |
| 4.87 miles | AT&T: 215 Kedzie St | |
| 5.38 miles | Lumen: 710 E Mifflin St | |
| 5.54 miles | AT&T: 122 W Main St | |
| 5.63 miles | US Signal: WI01 Madison |
US Signal's WI01 data center occupies Suite 1 of the Network222 carrier hotel on Madison's Capitol Square and anchors the company's Wisconsin fiber network.
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| 5.64 miles | Network222 |
Network222 is the ten-story carrier hotel at 222 West Washington Avenue on Madison's Capitol Square. It houses the 5NINES and US Signal data centers and a Madison Internet Exchange (MadIX) switch.
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| 5.64 miles | 5Nines |
5NINES runs a colocation data center in Suite 170 of Network222, the carrier hotel at 222 West Washington Avenue in downtown Madison, Wisconsin. ResTech Services has owned the 5NINES data center business since October 2023.
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| 5.82 miles | Lumen Madison 1 |
Lumen Madison 1 is a Lumen colocation and network site in the Sunkist Building at 612 West Main Street in Madison, Wisconsin.
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| 6.35 miles | AT&T: 1001 Spring St | |
| 6.58 miles | UW-Madison: DoIT Data Center |
UW-Madison's DoIT data center fills the basement of the Computer Sciences and Statistics building at 1210 West Dayton Street. It hosts campus research computing and one of the two Madison Internet Exchange (MadIX) switches.
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| 7.35 miles | American Family Insurance: Madison HQ |
American Family Insurance runs an enterprise data center at its national headquarters campus at 6000 American Parkway in Madison, Wisconsin.
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| 8.03 miles | AT&T: 2802 Sylvan Ave | |
| 8.09 miles | CDW: Fitchburg |
Berbee Information Networks opened its first data center in 1999 at its headquarters at 5520 Research Park Drive in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. CDW bought Berbee in 2006 and later closed the data center; Promega bought the building in 2024.
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| 8.33 miles | US Signal: WI02 Madison |
US Signal's WI02 data center at 5515 Nobel Drive in Fitchburg, just south of Madison, Wisconsin, is the largest colocation facility in the Madison market. US Signal bought it with OneNeck from TDS in 2024.
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| 9.36 miles | AT&T: 2002 Reetz Rd | |
| 9.56 miles | QBE: Sun Prairie |
QBE's former data center sits in Building 300 of its former General Casualty campus at 1 QBE Way in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. QBE sold the campus in 2025, and the space is now marketed for lease.
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| 9.65 miles | Verizon: 117 N Bristol St, Sun Prairie | |
| 12.15 miles | TDS: 1912 Parmenter St, Middleton | |
| 12.49 miles | SupraNet Madison |
SupraNet runs a SOC 2 Type II colocation data center at 8000 Excelsior Drive on Madison's west side, serving more than 100 customers.
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| 12.90 miles | TDS: Middleton Data Center |
The former TDS Data Center occupies Suite 230 of the Wisconsin Trade Center office building at 8401 Greenway Boulevard in Middleton, Wisconsin. TDS has since left, and the landlord markets the suite for lease.
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| 13.82 miles | Brightspeed: 145 E Holum St, DeForest | |
| 15.14 miles | Epic Systems: Verona |
Epic Systems' primary data center is an underground facility on the company's Verona, Wisconsin, campus that hosts electronic health records for Epic's client health systems.
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| 15.65 miles | QTS: Vienna Expansion |
Later phases of QTS Data Centers' proposed campus in the Town of Vienna, Wisconsin, withdrawn in 2026 when QTS chose a site in Iowa.
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| 15.98 miles | QTS: Vienna, Wisconsin |
QTS Data Centers proposed a large data center campus in the Town of Vienna, north of Madison, Wisconsin, in 2025. It withdrew in 2026 and chose a site in Iowa.
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The Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) is the state agency that provides central services to Wisconsin government. Its Division of Enterprise Technology (DET) manages the state's information technology assets and provides IT services to state agencies, local and county governments, schools, libraries and tribes.
DET runs the Femrite Data Center on Madison's southeast side, the primary data storage facility for state agencies. The state leased the purpose-built facility from 2006 and bought it in 2016, and UW-Madison has used it for colocation since 2021.
Wisconsin Department of Administration History:
- In 2021, UW-Madison began colocating in the Femrite Data Center.
- In June 2016, the state bought the Femrite Data Center.
- In April 2006, DOA staff moved into the new Femrite Data Center.
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