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FirstLight Expands Bedford, NH Data Center

BEDFORD, N.H. — March 10, 2026 — FirstLight, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology solutions in the Northeast, today announced a significant expansion of its Bedford, New Hampshire data center. The expansion adds approximately 25% more data center space, along with additional power and cooling infrastructure, supporting up to 100 additional racks and dedicated private suites and caged environments, to meet growing demand from enterprises and emerging AI-driven edge workloads. The expansion reinforces FirstLight’s continued investment in scalable, high-performance infrastructure designed to support mission-critical applications and data-intensive 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.” FirstLight’s Bedford data center is strategically located and directly connected to the company’s dense, high-capacity fiber network, enabling low-latency access to regional and national destinations, cloud on-ramps, and private network services. The site is well suited for a range of use cases, including production environments, disaster recovery, and edge deployments that require proximity, performance, and reliability. The expansion also aligns with FirstLight’s broader strategy to support AI and data-intensive workloads, whether through edge data center capacity closer to customers or high-capacity, low-latency fiber connectivity that links organizations to larger core data center and cloud ecosystems across the region. “Customers increasingly want flexibility, whether that means deploying infrastructure closer to users at the edge, or leveraging our fiber network to connect into larger-scale environments,” Leuzzi added. “FirstLight is uniquely positioned to support both models with a tightly integrated approach to data center, network, and connectivity services.” The expanded Bedford facility further strengthens FirstLight’s portfolio of infrastructure assets across the Northeast, underscoring the company’s commitment to helping customers scale confidently as performance, resiliency, and data demands continue to rise.

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FirstLight and Green 4 Maine Partner to Power a New Era of Green Data Center Technology in Northern Maine

Albany, NY – October 28, 2025 – FirstLight, a leading provider of digital infrastructure services throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, has partnered with Green 4 Maine to transform Northern Maine into a premier destination for next-generation green data centers. Together, the companies are opening the door for AI innovators and cloud providers to tap into renewable power, expansive space, and high-capacity fiber to meet surging global data center demand and are doing so in an environmentally responsible manner. At the core of the project is Green 4 Maine’s transformative revitalization of the former Loring Air Force Base, a Cold War–era military facility. The Loring property and its 1.25 million square feet of commercial building space has been reimagined as a center for technological advancement and appropriately renamed the “Green 4 Maine Campus and Innovation Hub at Loring”. With strong roots in Maine dating back over 25 years, FirstLight’s extensive fiber optic network was already in place at Loring and completely physically diverse, creating a built-in advantage for customers who require massive data processing capabilities paired with ultra-reliable, high-capacity connectivity. “Green 4 Maine has breathed new life into a historic site and positioned it as one of the most attractive technology-based innovation hub locations in the country,” said Scott Hinkel, CEO at Green 4 Maine. “With abundant clean energy, FirstLight’s low latency, high-capacity fiber network and the site’s unmatched physical capacity, Loring is ready to support the data-intensive applications driving today’s technological revolution.” The Green 4 Maine Campus and Innovation Hub at Loring is positioned to deliver significant clean energy capacity critical for the demands of modern data processing, while FirstLight’s robust fiber network delivers high strand counts and bandwidth scalability to handle multi-terabits of traffic, creating an ideal environment for enterprises requiring exponential computing power and data processing. As new technology tenants occupy Green 4 Maine’s turnkey data center space, they gain more than just connectivity, they tap directly into FirstLight’s dense, multi-state fiber network, engineered to meet the demands of hyperscalers, AI developers, and other data-intensive enterprises. The network’s physically diverse routes stretch from the Canadian border to data centric locations, including New York City, Boston, Montreal, Ashburn, and throughout Pennsylvania, delivering the geographic diversity, resiliency, and scalability required by mission-critical operations. “The Green 4 Maine Campus and Innovation Hub at Loring represents everything the future of data centers demands – abundant power, immense physical capacity, and a location ready to scale with the next generation of technology,” said Lorenzo Leuzzi, Chief Revenue Officer at FirstLight. “FirstLight is thrilled to offer our high-capacity, low-latency network at this site, offering the speed, scalability and strategic fiber routes these high-profile customers require.” The Green 4 Maine Campus and Innovation Hub at Loring’s technology-forward, green data center offering represents a strategic leap forward for Northern Maine’s economy, and will not only broaden the tax base for the region, but also deliver much-needed, sustained employment opportunities in technology, construction, and the trades. As the global shift toward AI and other data-intensive technologies accelerates, the State of Maine is now positioned to become a leader and a key node in the world’s digital ecosystem.

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