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350 East Cermak Road

Operational

Fully operational facility

Chicago: Downtown

Metro
Chicago

Metro
Illinois

State
Midwest US

Region
United States

Country
North America

Region
Americas

Region

Digital Realty: ORD10

Year Built: 1999

Floors: 8

Ownership: Digital Realty Trust owns the building.

Sites leasing space from Digital Realty Trust:

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Total Building Size

Total Power

The massive building at 350 East Cermak Road in Chicago is one of the biggest carrier hotels in the world. Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025. The facility was previously billed as ‘the world’s largest data center’ by DCK around 2009. 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.

Picture of 350 E Cermak:

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.

Map and Nearby Locations:

350 East Cermak Road

Digital Realty Trust Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Digital Realty: ORD10

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
0.00 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.
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	Colocation America CH1
0.02 miles	Deft: Downtown CH1
0.03 miles	Centersquare: Chicago ORD1(B, C & D)	Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
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	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.
1.50 miles	Crown Castle 725 S Wells
1.52 miles	Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells	The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
1.53 miles	Cogent: 600 S Federal
1.53 miles	Lumen Chicago 5
1.53 miles	Colocation America CH2
1.53 miles	Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11
1.53 miles	DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal
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
1.62 miles	DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
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	CoreSite Chicago CH1	Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
1.66 miles	Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
1.68 miles	QuadraNet Chicago
1.71 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.
1.75 miles	First Communications Chicago
1.77 miles	TierPoint Chicago Polk
1.88 miles	Cogent: 216 W Jackson
1.88 miles	Verizon: 140 S Dearborn
2.25 miles	Lumen Chicago 6
2.33 miles	Lumen Chicago 1
2.33 miles	EXA - 111 North Canal	Former GTT suite
2.34 miles	Lumen Chicago 3
2.61 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.
2.68 miles	QTS: Chicago Campus	The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
2.72 miles	QTS: Chicago 3	QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
2.98 miles	Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)	Commercial real estate investment firm Metro Edge Development is building a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
3.24 miles	Lumen Chicago 4
3.39 miles	Lumen Chicago 2
4.09 miles	1547 Chicago Midway Technology Centre	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.
8.78 miles	Related Digital: Chicago, IL	Related Digital is planning a 430-acre campus in Chicago, Illinois, at the old US Steel South Works location.
8.81 miles	Related Digital: Chicago Expansion
11.23 miles	Digital Crossroad: Hammond, IN (Phase 2)	Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. The company plans to add another 180,000 sq ft (16,720 sqm) building in the second phase.
11.33 miles	Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)	The facility (DX-1) is a 105,000 square foot data center located on the former State Line Generating Plant, Hammond, IN.
12.35 miles	Lumen Broadview
13.31 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.
13.32 miles	Tierpoint Chicago West
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	Digital Realty: ORD14
13.40 miles	Digital Realty: ORD13
13.42 miles	Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12
13.54 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.
15.57 miles	DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
15.57 miles	Verizon: 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.
15.91 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.
15.93 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.
16.16 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
16.29 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.
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	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
16.54 miles	Verizon: (Oak Brook)
16.66 miles	NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
17.30 miles	Iron Mountain Chicago	First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
18.47 miles	Equinix Chicago CH7
19.45 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.
19.65 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.
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).
19.77 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.
19.87 miles	EdgeConneX CHI01
19.88 miles	Centersquare: Chicago ORD2	Cyxtera's CH3 Elk Grove site is across the street from the Digital Realty Chicago campus (former Dupont Fabros) and close to Equinix CH3.
19.90 miles	EdgeConneX: CHI03	EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000-square-foot, two-story data center building on its Elkgrove campus near Chicago.
19.97 miles	EdgeConneX CHI02
19.98 miles	Stream Chicago I	Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
19.98 miles	2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty

Digital Realty: ORD10 Data Center Photos (See all)

Outside of 350 E Cermak

Source: Baxtel

Rendering of DRT's planned 12-story Data Center at 330 East Cermak

Source: Digital Realty Trust

First Floor Layout

Source: Baxtel

Operating Company

Digital Realty Trust is a data center public REIT that owns and operates facilities in the United States and Europe. The company provides colocation and interconnection services and develops large multi‑tenant data centers for enterprise and cloud customers.

Its European platform expanded through the combination with Interxion, and through the purchase of European sites divested by Equinix following Equinix’s acquisition of TelecityGroup. The Telx acquisition added a U.S. interconnection and colocation business to Digital Realty’s portfolio.

Digital Realty Trust History:

In March 2020 completed the combination with Interxion, expanding its European platform.
In September 2017 completed the merger with DuPont Fabros Technology.
In July 2016 acquired eight European data centers from Equinix that were divested as part of Equinix’s TelecityGroup acquisition.
In October 2015 completed the acquisition of Telx.
On October 28, 2004 priced its initial public offering at 12 dollars per share.