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Go to PodcastGreen Door Capital holds about 138 acres of farmland on the east side of Eldamain Road in Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois. The tract lies north of Corneils Road and west of West Beecher Road. Green Door is marketing it for data center use and has not named an end user.
Prologis's planned Project Steel campus surrounds the tract on the east and north. A BrightFarms greenhouse borders it to the south. CyrusOne's Yorkville campus, on land Green Door assembled and sold, lies about 2.5 km south.
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| 0.71 miles | Prologis: Project Steel Expansion |
Future Phases 2 and 3 of Prologis's Project Steel campus in Yorkville, Illinois: twelve two-story buildings and two substations at Galena and Eldamain roads, planned over the 2030s and 2040s.
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| 0.79 miles | Prologis: Project Steel 1 |
Phase 1 of Prologis's Project Steel campus in Yorkville: four two-story data center buildings of about 425,000 sq ft each and two substations, east of the ComEd corridor off Corneils and Beecher roads. Construction is planned to start in 2027.
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| 0.83 miles | Green Door: Yorkville 50 Acres |
Green Door Capital land-bank data center tract of about 50 acres at Eldamain and Corneils roads in Yorkville, Illinois, held by Yorkville Nexus LLC. Zoned M-2 for data center use; no end user or site plan has been filed. Lies just north of CyrusOne's Yorkville campus.
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| 0.85 miles | Plaza PlusInterested in this information?Contact us |
Microsoft owns about 506 acres west of Eldamain Road at Corneils Road in Plano, Illinois, bought from three landowners in April 2024. Plano annexed and rezoned the land for a data center campus in 2024. Microsoft paused the project in June 2025.
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| 1.21 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 1 |
Building 11A of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft in the campus's northwest section. CyrusOne plans to build it first.
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| 1.25 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 2 |
Building 11B of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 129,000 sq ft, the campus's smallest building, beside Building 11A in the northwest section.
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| 1.43 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 3 |
Building 11C of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft at the west end of the campus's middle row.
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| 1.44 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 4 |
Building 11D of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft in the campus's middle row, just west of the on-site substation.
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| 1.54 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 5 |
Building 11E of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft at the west end of the campus's south row, near Faxon Road.
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| 1.55 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 6 |
Building 11F of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft in the middle of the campus's south row.
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| 1.58 miles | Pioneer: Project Cardinal Expansion |
The other 13 planned buildings of Pioneer Development's Project Cardinal campus in Yorkville, Illinois, built in northeast, south and west phases after the first building.
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| 1.59 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 9 |
Former ninth building of CyrusOne's 2024 Yorkville Technology Campus plan in Yorkville, Illinois. CyrusOne cut the campus to eight buildings in 2026, so this building is no longer planned.
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| 1.60 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 7 |
Building 11G of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft at the east end of the south row, south of the on-site substation.
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| 1.60 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 8 |
Building 11H of CyrusOne's Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI11) at Eldamain and Faxon roads in Yorkville, Illinois. A planned single-story data center of about 246,000 sq ft on the campus's east edge along Beecher Road.
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| 1.73 miles | Pioneer: Project Cardinal 1 |
First building of the northeast phase of Pioneer Development's Project Cardinal campus in Yorkville, Illinois. Planned as a two-story data center of about 1.36 million sq ft beside the campus ComEd switchyard and customer substation.
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| 1.99 miles | Green Door: Yorkville Kelaka |
Green Door Capital land-bank data center tract of about 154 acres south of Faxon Road in Yorkville, Illinois, held by Yorkville Nexus IV LLC. Yorkville approved its annexation and rezoning; no end user or site plan has been filed. Lies just south of CyrusOne's Yorkville campus.
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| 2.18 miles | Savion: Plano 1 |
Plano 1 is the first building in Savion's proposed data center campus beside the Plano Skies Energy Center north of Plano, Illinois.
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| 2.48 miles | Savion: Plano Expansion | |
| 13.92 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC2 |
CyrusOne's CHI2 second building is located at 2805 Diehl Road, Aurora, IL.
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| 14.09 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.
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| 14.09 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC1 |
The CyrusOne CHI2 data center is located on 16 acres, 45 minutes southwest of Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
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| 14.13 miles | DataCanopy: Chicago, IL | |
| 14.15 miles | CyrusOne: Aurora CME (CHI1) |
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.
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| 14.21 miles | CyrusOne: CHI3 DC1 |
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.
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| 14.41 miles | Edged Energy: Chicago ORD03 |
This facility will be part of Edged Energy's Aurora TechPark in Chicago.
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| 14.42 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.
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| 14.52 miles | Colovore: ORD01 |
Colovore's first Chicago-area facility, a purpose-built liquid-cooled colocation building in Aurora's Meridian Business Campus. Single data hall slated for service in late 2026.
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| 14.59 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.
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| 14.60 miles | Colovore: ORD03 |
Colovore's third Chicago-area facility, a purpose-built liquid-cooled colocation building in Aurora's Meridian Business Campus. Two-hall design with service dates in 2028.
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| 14.63 miles | Colovore: ORD04 |
Colovore's fourth Chicago-area facility, a purpose-built liquid-cooled colocation building in Aurora's Meridian Business Campus, adjacent to the company's ORD01 site. Two-hall design with service dates in late 2028 and early 2029.
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| 14.68 miles | DataBridge: Aurora, IL |
DataBridge Sites is the new name for ESite Systems, a company with two decades of history in the industry.
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| 14.68 miles | US Signal: IL02 Aurora |
US Signal's Aurora, Illinois data center at 4267 Meridian Parkway in the Meridian Business Campus, acquired in December 2025. The 70,000 sq ft facility carries about 33,000 sq ft of white space and is being upgraded in phases with new UPS, cooling and generator capacity, with liquid-cooled high-density space planned. It connects to US Signal's Oak Brook site and national fiber backbone and hosts the company's OpenCloud platform.
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| 14.68 miles | 4267 Meridian Pkwy: Lincoln Rackhouse |
The facility was acquired when Lincoln Rackhouse acquired Bytegrid in 2019.
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| 15.60 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.
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| 16.78 miles | NetSource Chicago | |
| 17.18 miles | SBA Edge: 603 Discovery |
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
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| 17.45 miles | Summit: Naperville | |
| 17.81 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.
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| 17.82 miles | Hub OneInterested in this information?Contact us |
DeKalb 1 is one half of the first H-shaped building on Meta's DeKalb, Illinois campus, which opened in November 2023.
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| 17.87 miles | Prime ParkInterested in this information?Contact us |
DeKalb 2 is the second half of the first H-shaped building on Meta's DeKalb, Illinois campus, which opened in November 2023.
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| 18.04 miles | Karis: DeKalb 6 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.07 miles | Core HubInterested in this information?Contact us |
DeKalb 3 is the third building on Meta's DeKalb, Illinois campus, part of the expansion beyond the first H-shaped building.
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| 18.10 miles | Karis: DeKalb 5 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.13 miles | Karis: DeKalb 7 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.17 miles | Karis: DeKalb 4 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.18 miles | Edge ParkInterested in this information?Contact us |
DeKalb 4 is the fourth building on Meta's DeKalb, Illinois campus, part of the expansion beyond the first H-shaped building.
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| 18.18 miles | Karis: DeKalb 2 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.23 miles | Prime CenterInterested in this information?Contact us |
DeKalb 5 is the fifth building on Meta's DeKalb, Illinois campus, part of the expansion beyond the first H-shaped building.
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| 18.24 miles | Karis: DeKalb 3 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.24 miles | Karis: DeKalb 1 |
Karis Critical is investing to build a huge data center campus in DeKalb, Illinois. The plan is for seven two-story data center buildings, each spanning 250,000 sq ft (23,226 sq m).
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| 18.78 miles | Equinix: Minooka CH8 |
The Equinix Minooka Data Center is a large-scale infrastructure project spanning approximately 300 acres of former farmland near Ridge and Holt Roads in Grundy County, Illinois.
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| 18.81 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.
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| 18.84 miles | Equinix: CH9 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.90 miles | Equinix: CH10 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.96 miles | Equinix: CH11 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.97 miles | Cogent Naperville | |
| 19.21 miles | Equinix: CH12 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 19.30 miles | Equinix: CH13 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 19.38 miles | Equinix: CH14 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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Chicago private-equity real estate sponsor founded in 2011, investing in value-add industrial, retail and office assets. Since 2023 it has assembled and entitled farmland in Yorkville, Illinois for data center campuses, including the land it sold for CyrusOne's Yorkville campus.
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