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.
Insights: Data Center Site Selection
The latest trends in data center site selection and geography: where cloud computing facilities are being built and why, including the cost of power and tax incentives.
Chicago Data Center Development Brings New Construction, Providers
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.
Chicago Data Center Demand Driven by Cloud & Interconnection Growth
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.
Chicago Data Center Market Boosted By New Economic Incentives
New economic incentives in Illinois have boosted interest in the Greater Chicago data center market after several years of steady but unspectacular leasing, Our DCF market report offers a deep dive into the market dynamics in Chicago.
Data Gravity is Shifting the Data Center Network. But in Which Direction?
Is data gravity drawing data centers nearer to interconnection hubs in major markets, or will a new architecture emerge around massive cloud campuses in remote locations? Digital Realty and CyrusOne offer different takes.
Brexit Prep Has Boosted Data Centers, Subsea Cables. But What Now?
European data centers are preparing contingencies for a potential “no deal” Brexit, which could impact everything from energy pricing to delivery of generators. But the runup to Brexit has been a period of surprisingly strong investment in digital infrastructure.
CoreSite Opens New Campus in Northern Virginia
CoreSite has officially opened its new data center campus in Reston, Virginia, providing the company with additional capacity in Northern Virginia
Iron Mountain Expands Into Asia With Singapore Data Center
Iron Mountain continues the global expansion of its data center network with a new data center in Singapore, reinforcing its strategy of adding capacity in global financial capitals.
Executive Roundtable: The Global Data Center Landscape
In our DCF Executive Roundtable, executives from Digital Realty, Iron Mountain, Cyxtera and Intel explore the challenges and opportunities of going global, the hot markets, and the impact of data sovereignty laws.
Fiber Connectivity Benefits Silicon Valley Data Center Market
Within the Silicon Valley market, Santa Clara has emerged as the prime location due to power pricing from the municipal utility, Silicon Valley Power. This post, part of a new Data Center Frontier Special Report, takes a look at the current business environment in Silicon Valley for data centers, including disaster risk, power cost, incentives and more.
Data Center Frontier is edited by Rich Miller, the data center industry’s most experienced journalist. For more than 15 years, Rich has profiled the key role played by data centers in the Internet revolution.