The company rebranded from Involta to Ark Data Centers in May 2024. It traces its origins to 2007, when Technology Resources Company and CoVault Technology merged to form Involta. Services center on enterprise colocation and cloud infrastructure, with sites across seven U.S. states. In February 2022, funds managed by Carlyle completed the acquisition of Involta.
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.
In October 2016, Involta announced plans for the expansion into Western Pennsylvania with UPMC, a leading integrated healthcare provider and insurer, as anchor-tenant. UPMC selected Involta to build, own and operate the multi-tenant facility in the Northpointe Business Park.
The Involta data center in Marion, Iowa is a 19,000-square-foot state-of-the-art colocation facility with 10,000 square feet of conditioned data center space, with an additional 40,000 square feet of expansion potential.
The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts.
The site was opened in 2015 and is within H5's data center building.
October 27, 2026 Duluth
Hermantown has moved its City Council vote on Google's proposed data center to Friday after protests shut down two meetings. The city scheduled the session for 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 30 with the same six resolutions from the canceled Oct. 27 agenda, according to a city press release. The resolutions...
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October 21, 2026 Cleveland
Cleveland City Council voted on the night of Oct. 19 to extend the city's moratorium on new data centers through Jan. 29, 2027, or until council enacts permanent rules. The extension keeps zoning permits and occupancy certificates frozen for new standalone data centers and also covers expansions...
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July 31, 2026 Ohio
French energy and water utility Veolia has been selected to operate and maintain a 350MW microgrid powering an undisclosed AI data center campus in Ohio. The behind-the-meter energy system is designed to supply 100% of the facility’s power needs, combining gas engines, linear generators, and a...
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July 22, 2026 Ohio
Cervenka Development Partners is exploring a potential data center project in Amherst, Ohio. The company has applied for a zoning variance to allow data center use on industrial land parcels along Nordson Drive. The request will be reviewed by the City of Amherst Zoning Board of Appeals on July...
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May 18, 2026 Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio, has turned down Lakeland Equity Group’s $1.6 billion plan to develop a data center campus. Mayor Justin M. Bibb announced on May 14 that the city had denied the permit for the proposed facility, which was planned for a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St. Lakeland described the...
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May 08, 2026 Ohio
Private credit firm Lakeland Equity Group has filed plans for a $1.6 billion data center project in Cleveland, Ohio. The proposal outlines a 150MW campus on a 35-acre site at 3560 E 55th St, currently owned by trucking company Morabito Enterprises. The development could include three two-story...
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