Wesco Acquires Data Center Facility Management Services Provider Ascent

Wesco International recently completed the acquisition of Ascent, a privately held company that primarily provides data center facility management services. Wesco announced its intention to acquire Ascent on October 31.

Ascent employs more than 300 in the United States and Canada and provides a range of site-operations services including staffing, facility-wide maintenance, critical systems repairs, emergency services, management of third-party maintenance workflows, and advanced liquid cooling solutions. Ascent also provides the proprietary Navigator platform that provides an integrated client dashboard designed to support critical infrastructure and facilities.

“Ascent’s expertise in engineering and design-build consultation services, in addition to daily site operations, extends our suite of capabilities and solutions that serve the entire lifecycle of the data center,” said John Engel, Wesco’s president and CEO. “Wesco continues to expand our leading data center solutions offering.”

Executive vice president and general manager of Wesco’s communications and security solutions Bill Geary added, “We are very pleased to welcome Ascent’s talented team members to Wesco. The Ascent team further extends our end-to-end service offerings for the data center—including advanced liquid cooling solutions—and adds significant capabilities to our portfolio of software and services to power business results and efficiencies for our customers. We are eager to build upon our differentiated value proposition and offer more opportunities to collaborate with our contractor and supplier partners.”

Ascent owns two data center facilities—one in Toronto and one in Chicago.