Lifeline Data Centers

Lifeline Data Centers is an Indiana-based colocation and managed-services operator founded in 2001, running two purpose-built campuses in Indianapolis (Eastgate) and Fort Wayne with a combined footprint of roughly 164,000 square feet. The company is privately held and mailing-addressed in Connersville, Indiana; it markets itself as one of a small number of Midwest operators certified to host federal-grade workloads, holding FedRAMP Ready status and supporting security regimes from FISMA up to Top Secret.

The Eastgate facility on Indianapolis's east side is anchored by a 4 MW on-site solar array with backup from the local utility grid, and the Fort Wayne facility draws from AES nuclear-fed substations. Both sites publish a 99.995 percent uptime target. Named co-founder Rich Banta remains a public face of the company and is credited by Lifeline as one of the industry's most heavily certified data-center operators.

Lifeline's customer base is skewed toward regulated Midwest enterprises rather than hyperscale AI training tenants: the operator lists health care, pharma, utilities, government, software, and cloud among its served segments. It is not publicly traded and has not disclosed venture or private-equity funding.