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‘A Year Like No Other’ as NTT Global Data Centers Accelerates Expansion

By Rich Miller - February 23, 2021 1 Comment

The NTT Global Data Centers Americas CHI data center in Itasca, Illinois. (Photo: NTT Global Data Centers Americas )

NTT Global Data Centers Americas is deploying new capacity across multiple U.S. markets in 2021. The expansion kicks into high gear with this week’s launch of new data centers in Suburban Chicago and Hillsboro, Oregon.

Tagged With: Chicago, Hillsboro, NTT, Portland, RagingWire Data Centers

Digital Crossroad Data Center Lands Content Delivery Client

By Rich Miller - January 26, 2021 Leave a Comment

Digital Crossroad is a 105,000 square foot data center on the shores of Lake Michigan in Hammond, Indiana. (Image: Digital Crossroad).

The Digital Crossroad wholesale data center says it has signed a leading content delivery network (CDN) as a client for its DX-1 data center in Hammond, Indiana.

Tagged With: Chicago, Digital Crossroad

Data Center Leasing Approached 700 Megawatts in 2020

By Rich Miller - January 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

A look inside a 6 megawatt data hall in the QTS Data Centers campus near Richmond, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Data center customers leased nearly 700 megawatts of IT capacity in 2020, according to a new report from North American Data Centers. That doubled the prior record from 2018, as the COVID-19 pandemic created extraordinary demand.

Tagged With: Chicago, Leasing, Northern Virginia

Facebook Plans $800 Million Data Center in Illinois

By Rich Miller - June 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Servers inside a Facebook hyperscale data center in North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Facebook will build an $800 million data center campus in De Kalb, Illinois west of Chicago, signaling that the company’s relentless expansion of its Internet infrastructure is not being slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Facebook

Digital Realty, Vapor IO Team on Integrated ‘Core-to-Edge’ Offering

By Rich Miller - June 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

A Vapor IO edge computing module is installed at a tower site in the Dallas market. (Photo: Vapor IO)

Data center developer Digital Realty and edge computing specialist Vapor IO are rolling out an “edge-to-core” offering in Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. It’s an early examples of integration between edge computing and data centers.

Tagged With: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Digital Realty, Edge Computing, Vapor IO

CoreSite Construction Push Delivers New Sites in Chicago, Santa Clara

By Rich Miller - June 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

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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.

Tagged With: Chicago, CoreSite, Santa Clara

T5 Data Centers Acquires Property for Chicago Expansion

By Rich Miller - January 20, 2020 Leave a Comment

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 1 Comment

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. 

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Data Center Markets, RagingWire Data Centers

Chicago Data Center Development Brings New Construction, Providers

By Rich Miller - December 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

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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.

Tagged With: Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market, Chicago Data Center Market Special Report, Data Center Markets, RagingWire Data Centers

Chicago Data Center Demand Driven by Cloud & Interconnection Growth

By Rich Miller - November 20, 2019 Leave a Comment

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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