Expedient Data Centers is to build a US$52m data and cloud computing center in Ohio for Compuserve.

The new facility will be in the Shier Rings TechFlex District of Dublin, Ohio, where its neighbours will include IBM, Amazon and Compass.

Phase I of the construction is expected to be completed in 2015, at a cost $22m.

Expedient said the new facility will provide jobs for 15 people.

Pittsburgh-based Expedient has already built one data center in Ohio, for Compuserve in 2011.

The campus, in Upper Arlington, is now Compuserve’s HQ and hires 20 employees.

It will remain in operation after the Dublin center is completed as the company adds to its estate of data centers.

Expedient's regional VP Bryan Smith said the Dublin location is close to an electrical substation, and its central geographic location, connection to fiber-optic systems and low risk of natural disasters make it ideal for data centers.

“We’ve had great success here,” Smith told US newspaper The Columbus Dispatch.

“We’ve grown a great deal, and when we looked at our forecasts, we only had the capacity for another year or so in terms of physical space in Upper Arlington, so we started a search.”

Expedient now has nine data centers, with facilities in Cleveland, Baltimore, Boston, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh in addition to its new construction in Dublin.

It specializes in data and cloud-computing services to local mid-sized companies that are situated less than 100 miles from an Expedient data center.

Central Ohio has attracted a number of data center operators into the area, through a combination of infrastructure and finance incentives.

Amazon subsidiary Vadata obtained a tax reduction to build a $1.1bn data center in the area that will employ 120.

IBM opened its Client Center for Advanced Analytics in the Tuttle Crossing area in late 2012 and plans to add 500 employees over three years.

Meanwhile, Compass Data Centers plans to build five data centers in New Albany.

Dublin Ohio is anxious to attract more data centers into the region to simulate economic growth said Colleen Gilger: “We looked at emerging growth sectors and where to put our efforts and the recruitment of companies, IT and tech space rose to the top".