US technology firm FirstLight is expanding its data center in New Hampshire.

The company this week announced a “significant expansion” of its Bedford data center in Hillsborough County.

The expansion adds approximately 25 percent more data center space, along with additional power and cooling infrastructure, supporting up to 100 additional racks and dedicated private suites and caged environments.

"As demand for private cloud and data center capacity continues to accelerate across the Northeast, customers are looking for providers that can deliver not just space, but the right combination of power, performance, and connectivity," said Lorenzo Leuzzi, chief revenue officer at FirstLight. "This expansion ensures we can continue supporting enterprises and public sector organizations running enterprise workloads, private AI deployments, and emerging AI inference workloads, while staying ahead of where their requirements are headed next."

Built in 2000, the three-story building is located at 8 Commerce Drive. According to the company’s website, the Bedford data center totals 7,250 sq ft (674 sqm) within a larger 93,345 sq ft (8,672 sqm) building. It was previously operated by ColoSpace, which was acquired by FirstLight in 2019. ColoSpace opened the facility around 2006.

New York-based FirstLight was founded at Tech Valley Communications in 1999 – it offers various connectivity and communication services, as well as colocation and disaster recovery. Renamed to FirstLight in 2013 after a series of acquisitions, the company was acquired by investment firm Antin Infrastructure Partners in 2018.

The company operates a 25,000-route-mile fiber network across six states: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. It offers services from 14 data centers across its footprint, totaling more than 144,000 square feet (13,380 sqm). Its data center locations include Albany, Boston, Brunswick, Burlington, and Manchester.