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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

Cyxtera Leases 9-Megawatt Data Center in Santa Clara

By Rich Miller - June 29, 2021

The future Cyxtera data center in Santa Clara. (Source: Prime Data Centers)

Cyxtera Technologies is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley, leasing a 9 megawatt data center being built by Prime Data Centers. It is also adding capacity in the Greater Chicago market.

Tagged With: Chicago, Cyxtera, Prime Data Centers, Santa Clara, Silicon Valley

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.

Tagged With: Aligned, Chicago, Chicago Data Center Market

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

By Rich Miller - February 23, 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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