Iowa City colocation for Eastern Iowa businesses
A professionally operated home for critical business infrastructure
Secure at every level.
Winsor is creating a secure, professionally operated Iowa City data center for the technology Eastern Iowa businesses depend on. Your organization retains ownership and control of its servers, storage, backups and network equipment while Winsor provides the purpose-built facility environment and local technical support around them. Targeting fall 2026.
What Winsor is building in Iowa City
Most offices, plants and warehouses were never designed to house the systems a business depends on. Standard building power, office cooling, limited monitoring and a single internet connection can turn one local problem into a business-wide interruption.
Winsor's Iowa City data center is being developed to provide Eastern Iowa organizations with a professionally operated colocation environment for customer-owned servers, storage, backup appliances and network equipment. Your organization retains ownership and control of its hardware; Winsor provides the facility environment and approved supporting services around it.
Quick answer · What is colocation?
Colocation means placing servers, storage, backup appliances and network equipment your organization owns inside a professionally operated data center. Your organization retains ownership and control of the hardware, while the facility provides the physical environment, power, cooling, security and connectivity options around it.
Signs the current environment may no longer fit
A typical server room quietly depends on conditions no one chose deliberately:
- A single utility connection
- Standard office cooling
- A shared internet connection
- Limited environmental monitoring
- Informal physical access
- Backups in the same building
- Limited space and capacity
- An upcoming hardware refresh
- A facility move or expansion
- Recovery or audit concerns
Is colocation the right next step?
Select the conditions that apply to your environment. We'll include the items you selected with your request so you do not have to repeat them.
Check any that sound familiar. The meter updates as you go.
The primary next step
Plan your infrastructure before a decision is forced
Quick answer · What is an infrastructure assessment?
An initial planning conversation in which Winsor evaluates your current servers, storage, network, backup, power, cooling, connectivity and recovery requirements. The goal is to clarify what may remain on-site, what may fit in colocation and what may belong in a cloud or hybrid environment.
Your IT lead should participate; an operations, finance, security or leadership stakeholder may also be helpful. Planning can begin before the facility opens, and the conversation does not require a commitment to move equipment.
What the assessment can examine
- Current infrastructure and capacity
- Power, cooling and environmental risks
- Connectivity and uptime requirements
- Backup, recovery and geographic separation
- Upcoming moves, refreshes and growth
- On-site, colocation, cloud and hybrid options
Tell us what you operate and what you're planning
A Winsor team member will respond directly. Six quick fields, nothing more.
Checked items from the checklist are included with your request automatically.
The campaign idea, inside the building
Secure at every level.
Secure at every level means considering the building, business areas, supporting systems and customer equipment as connected parts of one physical-security environment. Each level adds separation and control as a person moves closer to critical infrastructure.
Building level
Purpose-built facility conditions and controlled physical access, beginning at the front door.
Business level
Separation between visitor, staff, support and infrastructure areas, so people move only where their access allows.
Systems level
Managed access to customer equipment and the supporting infrastructure that keeps it running.
Data level
Customer-controlled hardware supported by layered facility protections at the innermost point of the building.
What the facility is being built around
Power and cooling
Utility service, battery backup, generators and equipment-grade cooling are being designed as one coordinated environment. Winsor will publish the verified architecture rather than advertise an unapproved redundancy level.
Power, cooling and connectivity →
Connectivity
Your systems still need to reach employees, cloud platforms, customers and vendors. Approved carrier, fiber, cross-connect and bandwidth details will be published after service availability is confirmed.
Connectivity options →
Physical security
The building is organized as four security levels that deepen from the front door to the data halls. Final access procedures will be published in the facility documentation.
Physical security →
Local technical support
Winsor is an Iowa-based IT and cybersecurity provider. Winsor can help plan both the facility environment and the systems operating inside it, reducing the gap between data-center decisions and day-to-day IT operations.
Iowa City facility overview →A backup is not a disaster-recovery plan
A backup is a copy of data. Disaster recovery is the plan, infrastructure and process used to restore systems after an outage or site-level event.
Geographic separation means placing recovery infrastructure far enough from primary systems that one local event is less likely to affect both environments, while staying within practical reach of your team. The right distance depends on recovery objectives, access requirements, connectivity and regional risks.
Explore the facility and your options
- Iowa City facility overview
What is being built, where and for whom.
- Infrastructure readiness guide
How to evaluate whether your environment still fits.
- Power, cooling and connectivity
How the facility's operating systems are being planned.
- Physical security
The four-level approach from the front door to the data halls.
- Backup and disaster recovery
Why copies of data are not the same as a recovery plan.
- Regional colocation versus hyperscale
How the two models differ and who each serves.
- Community, water and energy questions
Straight answers on resource use, with sources.
- Frequently asked questions
The full list, updated as details are approved.
Common questions
Six to start. See the full FAQ for everything else.
What is colocation?+
Colocation means placing servers, storage, backup appliances and network equipment your organization owns inside a professionally operated data center. Your organization retains ownership and control of the hardware, while the facility provides the physical environment, power, cooling, security and connectivity options around it.
Who should consider colocation?+
Organizations that operate business-critical servers, storage, backup or network equipment on-site, especially when the current building is approaching power, cooling or capacity limits, a hardware refresh or facility move is coming, or customers, insurers and auditors are asking about resilience and recovery.
What is an infrastructure assessment?+
An infrastructure assessment is an initial planning conversation in which Winsor evaluates an organization’s servers, storage, network, backup, power, cooling, connectivity and recovery requirements. The goal is to clarify what may remain on-site, what may fit in colocation and what may belong in a cloud or hybrid environment. Organizations can begin the assessment before the Iowa City data center opens.
When is the Iowa City data center expected to open?+
Winsor is currently targeting fall 2026. A confirmed opening date will be announced after the necessary renovation, engineering and operational milestones are complete.
Can we begin planning before the facility opens?+
Yes. Winsor can begin discussing your current infrastructure, upcoming projects, recovery requirements and potential capacity needs now. Completing an infrastructure assessment does not require a commitment to move equipment.
Is colocation a replacement for cloud computing?+
No. Colocation and cloud computing often support different parts of the same infrastructure strategy. Colocation provides a professionally operated environment for equipment the organization owns, while cloud computing provides rented computing resources. Many organizations use a hybrid approach that combines on-site systems, colocation and cloud services.
Plan before your current environment forces the decision
Secure at every level.
Winsor's Iowa City data center is being developed to give Eastern Iowa organizations a professionally operated regional colocation option for customer-owned infrastructure. Organizations can begin evaluating power, cooling, connectivity, backup, recovery, access and capacity requirements now.