MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
This facility features liquid-cooled, high-density AI compute infrastructure integrated with the Stickney water reclamation plant, returning recovered heat to the host's process and digesters. It utilizes grid power with a behind-the-meter gas bridge. The system features a design PUE of 1.10 and an ERE below 1.0 where heat is captured.
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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.
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| 5.89 miles | QTS: Chicago Campus |
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 7.94 miles | TierPoint Chicago Polk |
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| 7.95 miles | First Communications Chicago | |
| 8.03 miles | Verizon: Swift Dr |
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| 8.03 miles | DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook |
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| 8.03 miles | LexusNexis Oak Brook | |
| 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
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| 8.04 miles | DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal |
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| 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.
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| 8.41 miles | Crown Castle 725 S Wells |
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| 8.42 miles | Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells |
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
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| 8.54 miles | Centersquare: Chicago ORD1(B, C & D) |
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
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| 8.55 miles | Lumen Chicago 1 |
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| 8.55 miles | EXA - 111 North Canal |
Former GTT suite
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| 8.56 miles | Cogent: 216 W Jackson | |
| 8.56 miles | Deft: Downtown CH1 | |
| 8.56 miles | Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 8.56 miles | Colocation America CH1 |
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| 8.56 miles | Digital Realty: ORD10 |
Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
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| 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.
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| 8.60 miles | Cogent: 427 S LaSalle | |
| 8.60 miles | CoreSite Chicago CH1 |
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
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| 8.60 miles | 365 Chicago |
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
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| 8.61 miles | Cogent: 600 S Federal | |
| 8.61 miles | Colocation America CH2 | |
| 8.61 miles | Lumen Chicago 5 | |
| 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 |
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| 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
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| 8.78 miles | Server Farm Oak Brook |
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
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| 8.81 miles | Verizon: 140 S Dearborn | |
| 8.87 miles | NYI Chicago (Oak Brook) | |
| 8.90 miles | Lumen Chicago 3 |
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 10.18 miles | Equinix Chicago CH7 |
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| 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.
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| 10.56 miles | Point PrimeInterested in this information?Contact us |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 13.34 miles | CyrusOne: Lombard CHI5 |
9 MW of critical capacity
Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
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| 14.71 miles | Iron Mountain Chicago |
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| 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).
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| 14.91 miles | CoreWeave: Hammond, IN | |
| 14.93 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us |
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 15.69 miles | 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty |
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| 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.
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| 15.82 miles | HostPapa CH1 |
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
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| 15.82 miles | Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1 |
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| 15.83 miles | EdgeConneX CHI01 |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 15.96 miles | Stream Chicago I |
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
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| 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.
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| 15.98 miles | Equinix Chicago CH3 |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 16.47 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.
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| 16.48 miles | Centersquare: Lisle CHI1 |
Centersquare's cloud-enabled Lisle data center is situated approximately 20 miles from O’Hare International airport.
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| 16.54 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.
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| 16.57 miles | STACK Chicago CHI01 |
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| 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.
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| 16.67 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.
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| 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.
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| 16.94 miles | NTT: Chicago CH4 |
NTT has acquired two office buildings in Chicago, Illinois, and plans to replace them with data centers.
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| 16.97 miles | NTT: CH3 |
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
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| 16.98 miles | NTT: Chicago CH5 |
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building.
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| 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.
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| 17.06 miles | NTT: CH2 |
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
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| 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.
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| 17.48 miles | Prime: ORD01-02 |
Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
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| 17.48 miles | Prime: ORD01-03 |
Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
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| 17.67 miles | CenturyLink: Arlington Heights | |
| 17.73 miles | Central PointInterested 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).
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| 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.
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| 17.77 miles | MaxInterested 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).
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| 17.80 miles | T5 Chicago II |
T5 Chicago II campus is located at 200 Innovation Drive in the Elk Grove area.
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| 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.
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| 17.86 miles | East 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).
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 18.77 miles | Connect Data Centers: Chicago |
Oppidan is developing Carol Stream’s first data center in Chicago, Illinois.
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| 19.00 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 3 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 19.19 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 4 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 19.39 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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| 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.
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| 19.80 miles | Colocation America CH3 | |
| 19.80 miles | DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect |
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| 19.95 miles | Summit: Naperville |
June 26, 2026 Chicago
A shuttered incinerator in Robbins, near Chicago, is attracting interest from multiple data center developers. According to NBC and the Chicago Tribune, at least five potential buyers have approached owner Paul Duggan this year about acquiring the 16-acre Robbins Resource Recovery Center site at...
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September 12, 2025 Chicago
A new liquid-cooled data center is being developed in downtown Chicago, Illinois by HydraVault, a new data center developer. The developer says the facility will be “designed from the ground up” for AI and financial systems.The 20MW two-story facility, located at 2538 South Wabash Avenue, will...
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December 12, 2024 Chicago
Prologis has sold a data center development in Chicago, Illinois to HMC Capital. The industrial real estate giant said the warehouse is held in the US Logistics Fund, a Prologis co-investment vehicle focused on premier logistics real estate, including higher and better-use conversions.HMC Capital...
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November 20, 2024 Chicago
Colovore is to expand its footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley and into Reno and Chicago. The company this week announced its second facility in Santa Clara, California, will open next month, and confirmed the locations of its next two sites.“We are staying...
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June 29, 2023 Chicago
The Chicago, Illinois data center of commercial real estate finance firm Metro Edge Development Partners has been granted site approval. The corporation received site plan approval for its IMD1 data center from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development this month. IMD1 will be a...
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