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MicroLink: Chicago, IL

Year Planned: 2028
Utility Provider: ComEd

MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Chicago, Illinois.

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5.17 miles Lumen Broadview
5.85 miles QTS: Chicago 3
QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
5.89 miles QTS: Chicago Campus
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
5.96 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.
6.27 miles Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)
Commercial real estate investment firm Metro Edge Development is building a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
7.73 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.
7.88 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.
7.94 miles TierPoint Chicago Polk
7.95 miles First Communications Chicago
8.03 miles Verizon: Swift Dr
8.03 miles DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
8.03 miles LexusNexis Oak Brook
8.04 miles DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
8.04 miles Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
4 MW Critical Load on Each Floor (Floors 1-5) 130-160 Watts per Raised Floor SF
8.40 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.
8.41 miles Crown Castle 725 S Wells
8.42 miles Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
8.54 miles Centersquare: Chicago ORD1(B, C & D)
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
8.55 miles Lumen Chicago 1
8.55 miles EXA - 111 North Canal
Former GTT suite
8.56 miles Cogent: 216 W Jackson
8.56 miles Deft: Downtown CH1
8.56 miles Colocation America CH1
8.56 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.
8.56 miles Digital Realty: ORD10
Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
8.56 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.
8.56 miles Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
8.59 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.
8.60 miles Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
8.60 miles 365 Chicago
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
8.60 miles CoreSite Chicago CH1
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
8.61 miles Lumen Chicago 5
8.61 miles Colocation America CH2
8.61 miles Cogent: 600 S Federal
8.61 miles QuadraNet Chicago
8.61 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11
8.61 miles DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal
8.67 miles Lumen Chicago 6
8.78 miles Verizon: (Oak Brook)
8.78 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
8.78 miles Server Farm Oak Brook
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
8.81 miles Verizon: 140 S Dearborn
8.87 miles NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
8.90 miles Lumen Chicago 3
8.92 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.
8.94 miles Lumen Chicago 4
8.98 miles Lumen Chicago 2
8.98 miles Tierpoint Chicago West
9.06 miles Digital Realty: ORD13
9.10 miles Digital Realty: ORD14
9.11 miles Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12
9.12 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
9.18 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.
10.09 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.
10.10 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.
10.18 miles Equinix Chicago CH7
10.20 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.
10.56 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
11.09 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.
12.22 miles 360TCS-Lombard
12.22 miles Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard
13.06 miles Related Digital: Chicago Expansion
13.06 miles Related Digital: Chicago, IL
Related Digital is planning a 430-acre campus in Chicago, Illinois, at the old US Steel South Works location.
13.34 miles CyrusOne: Lombard CHI5
9 MW of critical capacity Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
14.71 miles Iron Mountain Chicago
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
14.83 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.
14.84 miles Element Critical CH2
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
14.90 miles Element Critical CH1
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
14.91 miles CoreWeave: Hammond, IN
14.93 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.
14.94 miles Digital Crossroad: Hammond, IN (Phase 2)
Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. The company plans to add another 450,000 sq ft (16,720 sqm) building in the second phase.
15.03 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.
15.56 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.
15.67 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.
15.69 miles 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty
15.81 miles Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1
15.82 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.
15.82 miles HostPapa CH1
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
15.82 miles Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1
15.83 miles EdgeConneX CHI01
15.86 miles 2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT
15.89 miles 1450 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT
15.89 miles EdgeConneX: CHI03
EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000-square-foot, two-story data center building on its Elkgrove campus near Chicago.
15.92 miles EdgeConneX CHI02
15.96 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.
15.96 miles Stream Chicago I
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
15.96 miles Stream Chicago II
Stream Data Centers' Chicago II data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois is a 226,000 square foot facility.
15.98 miles Equinix Chicago CH3
16.11 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.
16.17 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.
16.48 miles Centersquare: Lisle CHI1
Centersquare's cloud-enabled Lisle data center is situated approximately 20 miles from O’Hare International airport.
16.54 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.
16.57 miles STACK Chicago CHI01
16.58 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.
16.60 miles CoreWeave: US Central ORD1
16.65 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.
16.70 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.
16.77 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.
16.94 miles NTT: Chicago CH4
NTT has acquired two office buildings in Chicago, Illinois, and plans to replace them with data centers.
16.97 miles NTT: CH3
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
16.98 miles NTT: Chicago CH5
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building.
17.01 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.
17.06 miles NTT: CH2
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
17.41 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.
17.48 miles Prime: ORD01-02
Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
17.48 miles Prime: ORD01-03
Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
17.67 miles CenturyLink: Arlington Heights
17.73 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).
17.76 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.
17.77 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).
17.80 miles T5 Chicago II
T5 Chicago II campus is located at 200 Innovation Drive in the Elk Grove area.
17.82 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.
17.86 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).
17.94 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.
17.95 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.
18.60 miles Aligned: ORD-04
This facility will be part of Aligned's ORD-03 campus in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago.
18.67 miles Aligned: ORD-03
Aligned is building a datacenter campus after acquiring an assemblage of beleaguered office properties near O’Hare International Airport.
18.77 miles Connect Data Centers: Chicago
Oppidan is developing Carol Stream’s first data center in Chicago, Illinois.
19.00 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 3
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
19.00 miles Cogent Naperville
19.08 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 2
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
19.17 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.
19.19 miles Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 4
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
19.74 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.
19.80 miles Colocation America CH3
19.80 miles DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect
19.95 miles Summit: Naperville

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