GI Partners: LightEdge acquires data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

GI Partners-owned company  LightEdge this week announced it had acquired a 76,000-square-foot, 3.6MW facility, located at 1708 West Creek Lane in Carver County, Chaska, Minnesota. 

This data center houses 30,000 square feet of data hall space across three private data center suites. LightEdge also revealed plans to make a “significant investment” in the site to deploy its enterprise LightEdge Cloud, fully redundant network, cloud on-ramps, and managed services to local businesses.

Jim Masterson, CEO of LightEdge, said, "We are excited to enter the Minneapolis market, invest in this rapidly growing region and deliver our best-in-class IT solutions to a new state. We are dedicated to building and supporting tailored cloud solutions delivered from in-market data centers that meet the rigorous demands of enterprise-grade operations and empower local companies with seamless connectivity and the robust infrastructure needed to thrive in today's digital landscape."