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New Data Center Players Enter the Greater Chicago Market

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

A data hall inside the newly-opened Aligned ORD-01 data center in Northlake, Ill. in the Greater Chicago market. (Image: Aligned)

Interest in the Greater Chicago data center market is on the rebound, sparked by economic incentives and new projects in both the Downtown and Suburban Chicago markets. That includes new projects from Aligned and Skybox Datacenters.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Cloud, Colocation, Data Center Site Selection, NTT, Raging Wire

Prime Data Centers Plans $1 Billion Project in Suburban Chicago

By Rich Miller - September 15, 2021

The Prime Data Centers Campus in Sacramento. (Image: Prime Data Centers)

Prime Data Centers is entering the Suburban Chicago market in a big way. The developer says it will invest $1 billion to create a 750,000 square foot data center campus in Elk Grove Village.

Tagged With: Chicago, Prime Data Centers, Site Selection

Why Chicago Is a Geostrategic Destination for Data Center Investment

By Voices of the Industry - June 30, 2021

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Chicago has long served as a major infrastructure hub for the nation’s commerce, whether goods and services were conveyed by rail, road, air, or data packet. Eric Jacobs, CRO of Aligned, discusses the factors that make Chicago a prime location for data center investment.

Tagged With: Aligned, Chicago Data Center Market, Data Center locations, Hyperscale

Aligned Enters Chicago Data Center Market with 100 MW Campus

By Rich Miller - April 28, 2021

An illustration of the future Aligned data center in Northlake, Ill. (Image: Aligned)

Aligned is entering the Suburban Chicago market, and has broken ground on a 100-megawatt data center campus in Northlake, continuing to add capacity across the U.S.

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CoreSite Construction Push Delivers New Sites in Chicago, Santa Clara

By Rich Miller - June 8, 2020

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Data center developer CoreSite is shifting from building mode to leasing as it brings fresh capacity online across its U.S. footprint, including new space in Chicago and Santa Clara.

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T5 Data Centers Acquires Property for Chicago Expansion

By Rich Miller - January 20, 2020

T5 Data Centers is expanding its operations in the Greater Chicago market with the purchase of a 164,000-square-foot data center shell in the Elk Grove Technology Park.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, T5 Data Centers

Chicago Business Environment Ready for Data Center Expansion

By Rich Miller - December 11, 2019

An abundance of fiber providers and several Internet exchanges make Chicago a hub for content delivery services to a large portion of the American Midwest. This excerpt from a new special report on the Greater Chicago data center market highlights the Chicago market’s business environment, including factors like power, hazard risk, incentives, connectivity and more. 

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SBA Adds Chicago Data Center, as Tower REITs Explore Edge Options

By Rich Miller - December 6, 2019

SBA Communications’ acquisition of a Chicago interconnection facility is the latest move by tower-focused real estate investment trusts (REITs) to establish a beachhead in the data center world.

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Chicago Data Center Development Brings New Construction, Providers

By Rich Miller - December 4, 2019

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Moves from CoreSite, RagingWire, STACK Infrastructure, Equinix, Iron Mountain and more have made 2019 a stand-out year for colocation development in Chicago. This excerpt from a new Data Center Frontier Special Report gives a full rundown of highlights of development activity in the Greater Chicago market for 2019.

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Chicago Data Center Demand Driven by Cloud & Interconnection Growth

By Rich Miller - November 20, 2019

A look at the CoreSite CH1 data center (center) showing its proximity to the Chicago Stock Exchange. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The growth of cloud computing has had significant benefits for the Chicago market. This excerpt from a new Data Center Frontier special report explores what drives supply and demand trends for the data center industry in the downtown Chicago market.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Data Center Markets, NTT, RagingWire Data Centers

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Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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