Vertiv Expands In Westerville
Vertiv plans to expand its Westerville headquarters campus, adding about 210 jobs through 2029 as part of a broader Ohio investment tied to growing demand for AI data center infrastructure. Company and state officials said the Westerville expansion will support growth across engineering, sales, services, project management, and related business functions.
The Westerville project is part of an approximately $50 million investment that also includes a major manufacturing expansion at Vertiv’s Ironton, Ohio, facility. Together, the two projects are expected to create up to 730 jobs statewide through 2029.
For Westerville, the announcement adds another chapter to the company’s growing local presence. Vertiv maintains its global headquarters in the city, and officials said the latest expansion will further strengthen Westerville’s role in the company’s operations as demand rises for the infrastructure that powers and cools data centers.
Vertiv said the Ohio investment is intended to help meet growing customer demand tied to artificial intelligence, high-density computing and other critical digital infrastructure applications. In Ironton, the company plans to expand production of liquid-cooling and chilled-water systems for advanced thermal management, with that project expected to be operational in the second quarter of 2027. Vertiv said the expansion is expected to increase that facility’s capacity for those systems by about 45%.
State development officials said the overall project is being supported by JobsOhio grants in Delaware and Lawrence counties, along with job creation tax credits approved by the Ohio Department of Development.
Vertiv is a supplier of power, cooling, and IT infrastructure used in data centers, communications networks, and industrial operations. Its Ohio roots stretch back more than 60 years to Liebert Corp., and the company says it now operates 14 facilities across the state, including its global headquarters in Westerville.
The expansion also builds on Vertiv’s earlier move to deepen its Westerville footprint. In 2022, the company announced it would relocate its U.S. corporate headquarters to the city and add 100 jobs to its Central Ohio operations, with $8 million in payroll, by the end of 2025.
Vertiv entered 2026 with strong business momentum. In its latest quarterly results, the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 net sales of $2.88 billion and pointed to continued demand, in part tied to AI infrastructure.
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