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EdgeConneX: CHI05

Short Code: CHI05
Year Planned: 2029
Utility Provider: ComEd
Ownership: EdgeConneX owns the building.
Lot Size: 8 acres

Site History

  • July 2024: EdgeConneX bought the parcel at 821-891 Busse Road, together with the adjacent CHI04 parcel at 901 Busse Road.

Project Profile

  • Developer and operator: EdgeConneX.
  • Site: about 7.5 acres on Busse Road, just north of CHI04.

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0.13 miles EdgeConneX: CHI04
CHI04 is a two-story, 164,000 sq ft EdgeConneX data center under construction at 901 Busse Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, near O'Hare Airport.
0.16 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.
0.27 miles Stream: Chicago ORDC3
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.
0.34 miles Stream: Chicago ORDC2
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.
0.37 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
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.
0.61 miles Stack: CHI01A
Single-story data center at 1441 Touhy Avenue in Elk Grove Village. Forsythe Technology broke ground on it in 2014, T5 bought it in 2016, and IPI Partners made it part of STACK. It adjoins CHI01B on a shared 14-acre parcel.
0.62 miles Prime: ORD01-01
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.
0.64 miles Stack: CHI01B
Two-story data center at 1301 Touhy Avenue, built by STACK next to CHI01A on the same parcel, with four data halls and diverse underground ComEd feeds.
0.67 miles Prime: ORD01-02
Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
0.70 miles Prime: ORD01-03
Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
0.87 miles Stream Chicago I
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
0.91 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.
0.92 miles Equinix Chicago CH3
0.93 miles EdgeConneX CHI02
0.94 miles CoreWeave: US Central ORD1
0.94 miles CoreInterested in this information?Contact us
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).
0.95 miles EdgeConneX: CHI03
EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000 sq ft, two-story data center building on its Elk Grove Village campus near Chicago.
0.96 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.
0.97 miles Prime CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
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).
1.01 miles EdgeConneX CHI01
CHI01 is EdgeConneX's first Chicago data center, a 132,000 sq ft retrofit at 1800 Nicholas Blvd in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
1.04 miles T5 Chicago II
T5 Chicago II campus is located at 200 Innovation Drive in the Elk Grove area.
1.04 miles Stream Chicago II
Stream Data Centers' Chicago II data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois is a 226,000 square foot facility.
1.05 miles Metro PointInterested in this information?Contact us
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).
1.20 miles CenturyLink: Arlington Heights
1.24 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.
1.34 miles 2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT
1.38 miles 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty
1.39 miles Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1
1.39 miles HostPapa CH1
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
1.39 miles Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1
1.40 miles 1400 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT
1.44 miles CloudHQ: ORD1
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
1.44 miles CloudHQ: ORD2
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
1.51 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.
1.56 miles CloudHQ: ORD3
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
1.67 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.
1.79 miles Aligned: ORD-04
This facility will be part of Aligned's ORD-03 campus in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago.
1.87 miles Aligned: ORD-03
Aligned is building a datacenter campus after acquiring an assemblage of beleaguered office properties near O’Hare International Airport.
2.54 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Carrier-Neutral Operator 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.
2.69 miles Element Critical CH1
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
2.86 miles Element Critical CH2
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
2.91 miles NTT: Chicago CH5
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building.
2.94 miles NTT: Chicago CH4
NTT has acquired two office buildings in Chicago, Illinois, and plans to replace them with data centers.
3.05 miles NTT: CH2
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
3.09 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.
3.17 miles NTT: CH3
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
3.85 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg3
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
3.97 miles Iron Mountain Chicago
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
3.97 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg2
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
3.99 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg4
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
4.06 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg1
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.
4.70 miles Colocation America CH3
4.70 miles DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect
4.95 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.
5.95 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.
6.39 miles Complete Source Schaumburg
6.66 miles Core HubInterested in this information?Contact us
6.98 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.
7.27 miles Aligned: 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.
7.31 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.
7.72 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.
7.81 miles Digital Realty: ORD12
7.82 miles Digital Realty: ORD14
7.85 miles Digital Realty: ORD13
7.93 miles Tierpoint Chicago West
7.98 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.
10.05 miles Ridge MaxInterested in this information?Contact us
Microsoft Hoffman Estates data center campus is located on a 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard.
10.16 miles Prime PlazaInterested in this information?Contact us
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.
10.19 miles Tower TwoInterested in this information?Contact us
Microsoft Hoffman Estates data center campus is located on a 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard.
10.20 miles AlphaInterested in this information?Contact us
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.
10.77 miles Connect Data Centers: Chicago
Oppidan is developing Carol Stream’s first data center in Chicago, Illinois.
11.25 miles LexusNexis Oak Brook
11.25 miles Verizon: Swift Dr
11.25 miles DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
11.64 miles Server Farm Oak Brook
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
11.64 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
11.65 miles Verizon: (Oak Brook)
11.72 miles NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
11.74 miles Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard
11.75 miles 360TCS-Lombard
11.98 miles CyrusOne: Lombard CHI5
9 MW of critical capacity Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
12.17 miles Lumen Broadview
12.90 miles Karis: Hoffman Estates Campus
Karis Critical and site owner Hoffman Estates Holdings officially withdrew their rezoning application for the proposed data center project in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, in June 2026, putting all active approvals on hold.
13.95 miles Equinix Chicago CH7
14.22 miles Compass Hoffman Estates
Located in Cook County, the campus will feature five buildings and represents a total planned investment of $10 billion.
15.32 miles Brennan Investment: Barrington, IL
The Brennan Investment Group has officially withdrawn its ambitious plans for a $2 billion data center project in Barrington Hills, a village located roughly 40 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois.
15.65 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.
16.05 miles WhiteRose: South Elgin, IL
Whiterose Partners LLC is proposing a 200,000-square-foot data center on nine acres in South Elgin, Illinois, located roughly 40 miles west of Chicago.
16.22 miles Centersquare: Lisle CHI1
Centersquare's cloud-enabled Lisle data center is situated approximately 20 miles from O’Hare International airport.
16.33 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.
16.82 miles MicroLink: Chicago, IL
MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
17.04 miles Colovore: West Chicago ORD02
ORD02 is Colovore's second Chicago-area facility, located in West Chicago and extending the company's distributed footprint across the metro. The liquid-cooled, HVDC-ready site is under construction and pre-leasing for edge AI and high-performance colocation workloads.
17.21 miles Karis: Naperville (INEOS)
Real estate developer Karis Critical is in early-stage exploratory discussions to potentially acquire the 168-acre former BP/INEOS campus at in Naperville, Illinois, within the Suburban Chicago market.
17.41 miles Cogent Naperville
17.73 miles SBA Edge: 603 Discovery
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
17.90 miles Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)
Commercial real estate investment firm Metro Edge Development is building a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
17.94 miles H5: Chicago
17.98 miles Lumen Chicago 2
18.09 miles Lumen Chicago 4
18.59 miles NetSource Chicago
18.71 miles EXA - 111 North Canal
Former GTT suite
18.71 miles Lumen Chicago 1
18.85 miles Lumen Chicago 6
18.91 miles Lumen Chicago 3
18.96 miles TierPoint Chicago Polk
18.97 miles QTS: CHI1 DC3
QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
18.98 miles First Communications Chicago
19.01 miles Igor Gabal: Chicago, IL
Local real estate developer Igor Gabal in partnership with Strategic Value Partners, is advancing a project to convert a portion of the historic 300 West Adams Building in downtown Chicago into a data center.
19.03 miles QTS: CHI1 DC2
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.
19.10 miles QTS: CHI1 DC1
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
19.12 miles Cogent: 216 W Jackson
19.12 miles Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
4 MW Critical Load on Each Floor (Floors 1-5) 130-160 Watts per Raised Floor SF
19.12 miles DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
19.26 miles Hut 8: Batavia, IL
HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 is developing a 120,000 sq ft (11,148 sqm) data center nearby Batavia, Kane County.
19.28 miles Verizon: 140 S Dearborn
19.28 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.
19.32 miles QuadraNet Chicago
19.33 miles CoreSite Chicago CH1
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
19.33 miles 365 Chicago
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
19.33 miles Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
19.35 miles Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
19.36 miles Crown Castle 725 S Wells
19.36 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.
19.39 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.
19.45 miles Lumen Chicago 5
19.45 miles Cogent: 600 S Federal
19.45 miles Colocation America CH2
19.45 miles DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal
19.45 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11

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EdgeConneX is a data center provider specializing in providing colocation facilities to host content at the edge of the network. The company provide Space, Power & Connectivity for content, network, colocation, CDNs and service providers, as well as wireless carriers, telecommunications companies, and commercial property owners. EdgeConneX has created a new Edge for traditional networks offering superior performance and economics.

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