Ascent News & Insights

As Ascent commemorates its 25 years in the data center business, I’m humbled to be part of a team that has steadily grown and evolved to support its customers. Upon reflecting on my 16 years here, one of the key ingredients to our success has become increasingly obvious— it’s listening. While simple, the fundamental act… Read More

During my tenure at Ascent, I cannot help but reflect and appreciate how much the company has grown and evolved. Ascent has been at the forefront of ensuring we take a customer focus approach first — consistently delivering to solve their most complex data center challenges through our maintenance programs, 24x7x365 support, and more. We… Read More

It is hard to believe that Ascent is already at the 25-year mark!  It is humbling for me to think back on those years, and to think about all that we have been able to accomplish with the help of our staff, our leadership, and our amazing customers.  We have truly come a long way… Read More

This year Ascent celebrated 25 years in business, and we are both excited and grateful to reach this milestone.  Back in 1998, Phil Horstmann founded our company with the mission of helping customers manage and maintain mission critical equipment. We’ve stayed true to our mission of improving critical facility reliability, finding customer savings and implementing… Read More

After 25 years of serving the mission critical industry, Ascent is excited to present new branding that communicates not only the depth of our years of service but the promise we are making to our customers and team members for the years to come.  Ascent’s strength is in its core values, which unite a team… Read More

The company’s rebrand reflects the depth of past experience in addition to its continued commitment to innovation and ‘elevating mission critical’  St. Louis, MO —November 16, 2023 — Ascent, a leading provider of customer-driven solutions in the development, engineering, construction and operations of data centers and critical facilities, celebrates its 25 years in business and… Read More

And just like that, Data Center World is right around the corner. This year’s conference of data center managers will feature a panel discussion on the topic of Edge data centers that includes Ascent’s own Jeff Martin. As a critical facilities service provider, Ascent will be speaking from the point of view of an operator… Read More

Without a doubt, typically the largest opportunity for energy savings in a data center facility is found within its mechanical system. While it is easy to become inundated with the array of critical equipment’s latest green features, the reality is that the overwhelming emphasis on energy savings in existing operational facilities should be on the… Read More