Centersquare: Chicago ORD2

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Centersquare: Chicago ORD2

Short Code: ORD2-A&B
Year Built: 2000
PUE: 1.43
Utility Provider: Commonwealth Edison
Floors: 2
Ownership: Csquare owns the building.
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Adjacent to Digital Realty's Busse Road Campus:

Centersquare's ORD2 Elk Grove site is across the street from the Digital Realty Dupont Fabros Chicago campus and close to Equinix CH3.

This site was previously operated by Cyxtera. Centersquare completed the successful acquisition of Cyxtera and Evoque Data Center Solutions in early 2024, established a formidable entity in 17 markets, primarily across North America.

Building:


  • Two-story building
  • Building interior: 163,747 sq/ft
  • Raised floor: 148,000 sq/ft

Network Providers:


CenturyLink
AT&T - MW (TCG/LNS)
AT&T - LNS (SBC)
Comcast
Global Reliance (Yipes)
Sunesys
Time Warner
VZB (MCI)
XO
Zayo (Abovenet)

Certifications and Compliance


  • SSAE 18/ ISAE 3402 SOC 1 Type 2
  • SSAE 18/ ISAE 3000 SOC 2 Type 2
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI DSS 3.2.1
  • NIST 800-53 PE
  • Energy Star Certified
  • Uptime Institute Tier III Certified Facility
  • Uptime Institute Tier III Certified for Operational Sustainability - Gold

Map and Nearby Locations:

2425 Busse Road
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Sites within 15 miles of Centersquare: Chicago ORD2

Distance Site About
0.14 miles 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty
0.26 miles Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1
0.28 miles Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1
0.28 miles HostPapa CH1
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
0.28 miles Digital Elk Grove Village Campus
Digital Realty Trust's Chicago campus is massive and is split among 3 buildings. The campus was acquired from Dupont Fabros in September 2017.
0.31 miles 2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT
0.38 miles 1450 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT
0.47 miles Stream Chicago II
Stream Data Centers' Chicago II data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois is a 226,000 square foot facility.
0.63 miles Equinix Chicago CH3
0.66 miles Equinix: CH5
Equinix has started construction on a new 195,000-square-foot, two-story data center in Elk Grove, Chicago. This new facility is being built right next to their existing CH3 data center.
0.68 miles EdgeConneX CHI01
0.68 miles EdgeConneX CHI02
0.74 miles EdgeConneX: CHI03
EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000-square-foot, two-story data center building on its Elkgrove campus near Chicago.
0.77 miles Stream Chicago I
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
0.89 miles DigiCo: Chicago
The facility sits on a ten-acre site and will serve as a flagship asset in HMC Capital's newly established DigiCo Infrastructure REIT.
1.04 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
1.05 miles CyrusOne: Wood Dale CHI6
CyrusOne is developing a 62-acre campus in Wood Dale, Illinois, with plans to construct six data center buildings encompassing approximately 1.4 million square feet.
1.05 miles STACK Chicago CHI01
1.11 miles STACK CHI01B
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE CHI01B Chicago Data Center is located at 1441 Touhy Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL, which currently offers 24 MW of critical power and 221,000 square feet of space.
1.21 miles Element Critical CH1
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
1.27 miles TA Realty: Elk Grove
TA Realty is constructing a 45-acre data center campus at the corner of Elmhurst Road and Old Higgins Road. The development includes four two-story buildings and an electrical substation.
1.35 miles Stream: Chicago III DC3
Stream DC aims to demolish around 55 Elk Grove residential properties to develop a three-building data center campus with an on-site substation. The three buildings will total more than 2 million sq ft.
1.40 miles Element Critical CH2
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
1.46 miles Stream: Chicago III DC2
Stream DC aims to demolish around 55 Elk Grove residential properties to develop a three-building data center campus with an on-site substation. The three buildings will total more than 2 million sq ft.
1.50 miles Stack: CHI02
Data center firm Stack Infrastructure is expanding its footprint in Chicago, Illinois with a new data center in Elk Grove Village, known as CHI02.
1.55 miles T5: Chicago V
T5 Data Centers has secured land in Elk Grove Village to build its upcoming CHI V data center. The planned 220,000 square foot (20,438 sqm) facility is expected to be operational by 2028.
1.56 miles Stream: Chicago III
Stream DC aims to demolish around 55 Elk Grove residential properties to develop a three-building data center campus with an on-site substation. The three buildings will total more than 2 million sq ft.
2.13 miles Prime Elk Grove
Prime Data Centers is building a 750,000 square foot hyperscale data center campus in Elk Grove Village (Chicago), Illinois, which will comprise an investment of around $1 billion.
2.16 miles Prime: ORD01-02
Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
2.21 miles Prime: ORD01-03
Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
2.27 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
The 37-acre plot in the Elk Grove Technology Park could eventually hold three data center buildings totaling 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m).
2.30 miles T5 Chicago II
T5 Chicago II campus is located at 200 Innovation Drive in the Elk Grove area.
2.32 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
The 36.6-acre plot in the Elk Grove Technology Park could eventually hold three data center buildings totaling 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m).
2.41 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
The 36.6-acre plot in the Elk Grove Technology Park could eventually hold three data center buildings totaling 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m).
2.41 miles NTT: Chicago CH4
NTT has acquired two office buildings in Chicago, Illinois, and plans to replace them with data centers.
2.41 miles NTT: Chicago CH5
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building.
2.56 miles NTT: CH2
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
2.57 miles NTT Chicago CH1
NTT acquired its Chicago site in 2018 through its RagingWire subsidiary. Launched in 2021, the first two-story data center, CH1, spans 126,000 sq ft (11,705 sqm) of data floor space.
2.61 miles NTT: CH3
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
2.69 miles CenturyLink: Arlington Heights
2.93 miles CloudHQ: Mount Prospect ORD2
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
2.95 miles CloudHQ: Mount Prospect ORD1
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
3.06 miles CloudHQ Mount Prospect ORD3
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
3.13 miles Aligned: ORD-04
This facility will be part of Aligned's ORD-03 campus in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago.
3.17 miles Aligned: ORD-03
Aligned is building a datacenter campus after acquiring an assemblage of beleaguered office properties near O’Hare International Airport.
4.06 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 3
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
4.11 miles Iron Mountain Chicago
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
4.17 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 2
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
4.23 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 4
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
4.27 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove
As of January 2026, the Nexstar/WGN data center project has expanded from its original 35-acre, three-building plan to a four-building campus utilizing a larger portion of the 102-acre transmitter site.
4.56 miles T5: Chicago lll
T5@Chicago III will be build-to-suit, with the company spending more than $500 million to develop a three-story, 250,000 sq ft facility for multi-tenant or single-tenant operations.
5.29 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
5.56 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.
5.83 miles Aligned Chicago ORD-01
Aligned's ORD-01 data center is a state-of-the-art facility located in Northlake, IL, just outside of downtown Chicago. At full build, Aligned’s Chicago campus covers 520,000 sq. ft. and offers ~ 100 MW of critical load.
5.86 miles Aligned ORD-02
Aligned's ORD-02 is a data center located in Northlake, IL near downtown Chicago. Part of Aligned's 18.5-acre hyperscale campus.
6.11 miles Colocation America CH3
6.11 miles DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect
6.33 miles Apotech: Illinois 1
Apotech Group operates its Illiois 1 data center facility in the Chicago market, situated at 1331 E Business Center Drive. This facility is a retrofitted structure, encompassing 32,000 square feet of space.
6.60 miles Digital Realty: ORD15
In 2017, Digital Realty acquired the former Motorola Headquarters site in Franklin Park and subsequently converted it into a data center.
6.70 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12
6.71 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
6.72 miles Digital Realty: ORD14
6.74 miles Digital Realty: ORD13
6.82 miles Tierpoint Chicago West
6.86 miles Digital Realty: Franklin Park Expansion
Digital Realty acquired two land parcels near their existing Franklin Park campus in separate transactions on July 2025, for a total of approximately $18 million.
7.24 miles Complete Source Schaumburg
9.75 miles LexusNexis Oak Brook
9.75 miles DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
9.75 miles Verizon: Swift Dr
9.87 miles Connect Data Centers: Chicago
Oppidan is developing Carol Stream’s first data center in Chicago, Illinois.
10.13 miles Server Farm Oak Brook
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
10.13 miles US Signal Oakbrook IL01
800a 480V 3 phase 450kW diesel generator with 24 hour run time at full load 500kVa UPS capacity with battery backup
10.13 miles Verizon: (Oak Brook)
10.21 miles NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
10.28 miles Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard
10.28 miles 360TCS-Lombard
10.56 miles CyrusOne: Lombard CHI5
9 MW of critical capacity Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
10.71 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
Microsoft Hoffman Estates data center campus is located on a 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard.
10.80 miles Lumen Broadview
10.85 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
Microsoft Hoffman Estates data center campus is located on a 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard.
10.92 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
Microsoft has expanded its presence in Chicago, Illinois, acquiring 30 acres of land in the Hoffman Estates area for $41.5 million in March 2023.
10.97 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
Microsoft has expanded its presence in Chicago, Illinois, acquiring 30 acres of land in the Hoffman Estates area for $41.5 million in March 2023.
12.45 miles Equinix Chicago CH7
13.43 miles Karis: Hoffman Estates Campus
Karis Critical purchased 180 acres of land in the Hoffman Estates area from 5a7 for $45 million.
13.55 miles Karis: Hoffman 2
This planned facility would be part of Karis Critical's Hoffman Estates Campus in Chicago, Illinois.
14.25 miles CloudCenters: Lisle, IL
The Cloud Centers data center project aims to transform the 18 acre former Lockformer superfund site in Lisle, Illinois, into a two story, 256,000 square foot facility.
14.77 miles Compass Hoffman Estates
Located in Cook County, the campus will feature five buildings and represents a total planned investment of $10 billion.
14.90 miles Centersquare: Lisle CHI1
Centersquare's cloud-enabled Lisle data center is situated approximately 20 miles from O’Hare International airport.
15.07 miles Karis: Naperville, IL
The Naperville City Council officially denied Karis Critical’s proposal for a "boutique data center campus" at 1960 Lucent Lane in January 2026.
16.20 miles Cogent Naperville
17.01 miles SBA Edge: 603 Discovery
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
17.03 miles Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)
Commercial real estate investment firm Metro Edge Development is building a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
17.33 miles Lumen Chicago 2
17.43 miles Lumen Chicago 4
17.51 miles NetSource Chicago
17.99 miles EXA - 111 North Canal
Former GTT suite
17.99 miles Lumen Chicago 1
18.03 miles QTS: Chicago 3
QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
18.10 miles QTS: Chicago 2
QTS is developing 366,000 sq ft (34,000 sqm) of data center space across three stories, alongside 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sqm) of office and loading areas in its Chicago Campus.
18.13 miles Lumen Chicago 6
18.16 miles QTS: Chicago Campus
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
18.18 miles TierPoint Chicago Polk
18.20 miles First Communications Chicago
18.21 miles Lumen Chicago 3
18.35 miles Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
4 MW Critical Load on Each Floor (Floors 1-5) 130-160 Watts per Raised Floor SF
18.35 miles DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
18.38 miles Cogent: 216 W Jackson
18.50 miles Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset
HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 is developing a 120,000 sq ft (11,148 sqm) data center nearby Batavia, Kane County.
18.54 miles Legacy: Chicago Byte Exchange CBE1
An affiliate of real estate firm Prime Group bought an office building in Chicago from options exchange company Cboe Global Markets for $12 million.
18.56 miles Verizon: 140 S Dearborn
18.58 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.
18.58 miles QuadraNet Chicago
18.59 miles Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
18.59 miles CoreSite Chicago CH1
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
18.59 miles 365 Chicago
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
18.60 miles Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
18.61 miles Crown Castle 725 S Wells
18.61 miles 725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems
In 2025, a joint venture formed by Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547”) acquired this data center from CIM Group.
18.71 miles Lumen Chicago 5
18.71 miles Cogent: 600 S Federal
18.71 miles Colocation America CH2
18.71 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11
18.71 miles DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal
19.39 miles Edged Energy: Aurora ORD01
The new data center campus, Aurora TechPark, will offer facilities built to handle dense AI-driven workloads that are transforming the IT industry.
19.50 miles Summit: Naperville
19.57 miles Edged Energy: Chicago ORD02
The new data center campus, Aurora TechPark, will offer facilities built to handle dense AI-driven workloads that are transforming the IT industry.
19.60 miles Edged Energy: Chicago ORD03
This facility will be part of Edged Energy's Aurora TechPark in Chicago.
19.80 miles CyrusOne: Aurora III (CHI3)
CyrusOne is developing a pair of new data centers in Aurora, Illinois, a project that will also include the construction of three 350-foot telecommunication towers.
19.88 miles Colocation America CH1
19.88 miles Digital Realty: ORD10
Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
19.88 miles Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
19.88 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.
19.88 miles Centersquare: Chicago ORD1
Centersquare's ORD1 site is located in the heart of the Chicago Financial District on the 7th floor of an 8-story building on a fiber-linked campus.
19.89 miles Centersquare: Chicago ORD1(B, C & D)
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
19.89 miles Deft: Downtown CH1
19.91 miles CyrusOne: CHI3 DC2
CyrusOne is developing a pair of new data centers in Aurora, Illinois, a project that will also include the construction of three 350-foot telecommunication towers.
19.95 miles CyrusOne Chicago Aurora CME
In 2016, CyrusOne acquired the CME data center for $130 million. CME hosts its electronic trading platform CME Globex on site. Globex will continue to be hosted on site as part of the 15-year lease agreement between CyrusOne and CME.
19.97 miles DataCanopy: Chicago, IL
20.00 miles CyrusOne: Aurora CHI2
The CyrusOne CHI2 data center is located on 16 acres, 45 minutes southwest of Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

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Csquare is a preeminent colocation provider with a proven track record of providing highly reliable data center services. Prioritizing security, reliability and superior customer service, Csquare offers flexible data center solutions backed by a 100% uptime guarantee.

With 80 data center locations in 30 critical markets and a host of on-prem, hybrid and on-demand solutions, Csquare is a trusted expert for thousands of diverse organizations across all industries.

Centersquare is a colocation and interconnection provider formed in 2024 when Brookfield Infrastructure combined Evoque Data Center Solutions and the acquired assets of Cyxtera Technologies.

Centersquare History:

  • April 2024: Rebranded from Evoque and Cyxtera to Centersquare.
  • January 2024: Founded as Centersquare when Evoque closed the acquisition of Cyxtera’s data center portfolio to create a combined platform.

Evoque Data Center Solutions History:

Evoque Data Center Solutions is a data center operator created in 2019 after Brookfield Infrastructure Partners acquired AT&T’s colocation assets.

  • April 2024: Rebranded from Evoque Data Center Solutions and Cyxtera to Centersquare.
  • 2024: Closed acquisition of Cyxtera’s data center portfolio.
  • 2022: Exited international data centers to concentrate on U.S. sites.
  • 2019: Launched following Brookfield Infrastructure Partners’ acquisition of AT&T’s colocation assets.

Cyxtera:

Cyxtera Technologies was a data center operator formed in 2017 when funds advised by BC Partners and Medina Capital acquired CenturyLink’s data centers and colocation business and combined it with Medina Capital’s security and analytics portfolio.

Cyxtera Technologies History:

  • April 2024: Rebranded from Cyxtera Technologies to Centersquare together with Evoque.
  • November 2023: Entered an asset purchase agreement for Brookfield affiliates to acquire substantially all assets, including related real estate transactions.
  • June 2023: Filed for Chapter 11 to implement a restructuring support agreement and obtain debtor-in-possession financing.
  • February 2021: Agreed to merge with Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. to become a publicly traded company.
  • May 2017: Launched following the sale of CenturyLink’s data centers and colocation business to a consortium led by BC Partners and Medina Capital, combined with Medina Capital’s security and analytics portfolio.
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