Grand Rapids-based US Signal Co. is expanding its data center footprint into the Chicago suburbs with the purchase of an Aurora, Ill. facility, the first move in the private equity-backed company’s more than $200 million investment in growth.
The digital infrastructure provider said it has immediate plans to invest in the facility to expand capacity to 4 megawatts of critical IT power and 6 megawatts of total commercial capacity. US Signal also said it will deploy its cloud and virtualization services at the facility.
The Aurora acquisition strengthens US Signal’s Midwest footprint as the company aims to capitalize on surging demand for data center capacity driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications…