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.
Prime Data Centers Plans $1 Billion Project in Suburban Chicago
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.
Cyxtera Leases 9-Megawatt Data Center in Santa Clara
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.
Aligned Enters Chicago Data Center Market with 100 MW Campus
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.
‘A Year Like No Other’ as NTT Global Data Centers Accelerates Expansion
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.
Digital Crossroad Data Center Lands Content Delivery Client
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.
Data Center Leasing Approached 700 Megawatts in 2020
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.
Facebook Plans $800 Million Data Center in Illinois
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.
Digital Realty, Vapor IO Team on Integrated ‘Core-to-Edge’ Offering
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.
CoreSite Construction Push Delivers New Sites in Chicago, Santa Clara
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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