350 E Cermak - Digital Realty

350 East Cermak Road

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The massive building at 350 East Cermak Road in Chicago is one of the biggest carrier hotels in the world. The site is an unusual confluence of two Interconnection ecosystems, Internet Exchange and Financial Exchange. The two ecosystems create significant demand for space in the building and therefore available colocation space is limited and pricing is higher.

350 Ceremak is served by an industrial strength infrastructure that includes four fiber vaults and three electric power feeds that provide more than 100 megawatts of energy. The building is currently the second-largest power customer for Commonwealth Edison, trailing only Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. More than 50 generators throughout the building and multiple 30,000-gallon tanks of diesel fuel support grid power and keep it running through the most adverse conditions.

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350 E Cermak Tenants and Colocation Providers

The building's Meet-Me Room is on the 2nd floor (formerly operated by Telx before the DRT acquisition.) Other datacenters in the building are listed in the table below.

Datacenter Floor Suite
AMS-IX Suite 120
CME Suite 120
Building MMR 2nd Suite 250
Atlantic Metro Suite 240
Steadfast Suite 240
Server Central Suite 500
Equinix CH1 5th Enter via Suite 650
Equinix CH2 6th Suite 650
Equinix CH4 8th Floor
Colocation America Suite 8

Cermak Chicago Expansion Plans

350 Cermak is as popular as it is large. The Chicago Fintech and Internet Interconnection all want space in a building that is near capacity. Over the years plans have been put forward to build a data center nearby, but none has come to fruition.

  • In 2016, Digital Realty was looking for an anchor tenant for a 54 MW project at 330 E Cermak.
  • JLL is marketing a project at 2222 South Indiana Avenue

History

Originally the building was a printing plant for R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. Built in 1912 was formerly known as the Lakeside Press building. It was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2004.

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0.00 miles Cyxtera Chicago CH4
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
0.00 miles Equinix Chicago CH1, CH2, & CH4
Equinix distinctly separates CH1, CH2, and CH4 into separate data centers, but in reality, the sites are in the same building.
0.00 miles Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
0.00 miles Atlantic Metro ORD0
0.00 miles Colocation America CH1
0.00 miles Cyxtera Chicago CH2
Within DRT's Cermak carrier hotel
0.02 miles ServerCentral Chicago DRT-CH1
1.30 miles CoreSite Chicago CH2
In February 2018, CoreSite acquired a two-acre land parcel in downtown Chicago, Illinois, on which CoreSite built CH2, a greenfield development of a 175,000-square-foot, turn-key, four-story data center supporting 18 critical megawatts of power capacity. The building was completed in June 2020.
1.50 miles 725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems
1547 Acquired the site in December of 2018.
1.50 miles Crown Castle 725 S Wells
1.50 miles Steadfast Chicago 725 Wells
1.50 miles Atlantic Metro ORD3
1.50 miles Colo@ Chicago
1.52 miles Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
1.52 miles GTT - 717 South Wells
1.53 miles Lumen Chicago 5
1.53 miles Cogent: 600 S Federal
1.53 miles Colocation America CH2
1.53 miles 600 S Federal - Digital Realty
1.62 miles DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
1.62 miles Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
4 MW Critical Load on Each Floor (Floors 1-5) 130-160 Watts per Raised Floor SF
1.66 miles InfoRelay Chicago
1.66 miles 365 Chicago
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
1.66 miles Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
1.66 miles CoreSite Chicago CH1
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
1.68 miles QuadraNet Chicago
1.75 miles First Communications Chicago
1.77 miles TierPoint Chicago Polk
1.88 miles Cogent: 216 W Jackson
1.88 miles XO: 140 S Dearborn
2.25 miles Lumen Chicago 6
2.33 miles Lumen Chicago 1
2.33 miles GTT - 111 North Canal
2.34 miles Lumen Chicago 3
2.68 miles QTS Chicago
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
3.04 miles Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)
3.24 miles Lumen Chicago 4
3.39 miles Lumen Chicago 2
4.09 miles 1547 Chicago Midway Technology Centre
11.30 miles Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)
12.35 miles Lumen Broadview
13.32 miles Tierpoint Chicago West
13.37 miles SingleHop Chicago
13.37 miles 9333 Grand Ave (DRT)
13.39 miles Digital Chicago Franklin Park Campus on Grand Ave - Digital Realty
Digital Chicago is a master-planned 40-acre campus in the Village of Franklin Park. The campus has 3 existing buildings, totaling 574,994 sqft
13.40 miles 9377 Grand Ave
13.40 miles 9355 Grand Ave
14.91 miles T5 Northlake IL
15.57 miles DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
15.57 miles XO (Swift Dr)
15.57 miles LexusNexis Oak Brook
15.77 miles 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty
The Digital Chicago Campus covers 21 acres of land with access to major fiber networks and can support up to 8 MW of IT load at N+1 redundancies.
15.90 miles Aligned ORD-02
15.91 miles Aligned Chicago ORD-01
16.16 miles Microsoft Chicago Northlake
16.54 miles Server Farm Oak Brook
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
16.54 miles XO: (Oak Brook)
16.54 miles US Signal Oakbrook
800a 480V 3 phase 450kW diesel generator with 24 hour run time at full load 500kVa UPS capacity with battery backup
16.66 miles NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
17.30 miles Iron Mountain Chicago
Iron Mountain is planning a (but not yet constructed facility in Chicago.)
18.47 miles Equinix Chicago CH7
18.47 miles Verizon Chicago (Downers Grove)
19.69 miles Element Critical CH1
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
19.71 miles Element Critical CH2
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
19.87 miles EdgeConneX CHI01
19.87 miles Edgeconnex Chicago Campus
The first Chicago site was leaked to the press in Oct 2016. Microsoft is expected to be the anchor tenant with the site supporting up to 25-30 MWs.
19.88 miles Cyxtera Elk Grove CH3
Cyxtera's CH3 Elk Grove site is across the street from the Digital Realty Chicago campus (former Dupont Fabros) and close to Equinix CH3.
19.97 miles EdgeConneX CHI02
19.98 miles Stream Chicago I
19.98 miles 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty

350 E Cermak - Digital Realty Data Center Photos


Outside of 350 E Cermak

Rendering of DRT's planned 12-story Data Center at 330 East Cermak
Source: Digital Realty Trust

First Floor Layout

Operating Company

Digital Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in the ownership, acquisition, development, redevelopment, and management of of strategically located properties containing applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacenter users.

165 Facilities Owned
55 Markets Served
2055.4 Megawatts
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Files

Name Date Added Description
350_east_cermak_rd-pdf August 2018

PDF Data Sheet from DRT

cbre-170912-350-e-cermak September 2017

CBRE info sheet for 12th and 2nd floors

american_book_company_building_landmark_designation May 2008

Landmark Designation with an in depth history report for 350 E Cermak