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The cost to develop the 707,244-square-foot data center was approximately $500 million and is located Northlake, Illinois, outside of Chicago.

The Microsoft facility is more than 15 acres located in direct proximity to a city water pumping station, adjacent Interstate and rail lines that provides fiber optic bandwidth, and its own on-site electric substation. There are three 66 MVA electrical substations that provide a total of 198 megawatts of power.

The facility was built in two phases. Phase1 was 396,695 sqft, and phase2 was 310,549 sqft.

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0.40 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.
0.55 miles Aligned Chicago ORD-01
0.60 miles Aligned ORD-02
1.25 miles T5 Northlake IL
3.12 miles 9355 Grand Ave
3.12 miles SingleHop Chicago
3.12 miles 9333 Grand Ave (DRT)
3.15 miles 9377 Grand Ave
3.18 miles Tierpoint Chicago West
3.18 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
4.33 miles Element Critical CH2
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
4.42 miles Element Critical CH1
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
4.66 miles LexusNexis Oak Brook
4.66 miles XO (Swift Dr)
4.66 miles DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
5.28 miles Server Farm Oak Brook
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
5.29 miles Cyxtera Elk Grove CH3
Cyxtera's CH3 Elk Grove site is across the street from the Digital Realty Chicago campus (former Dupont Fabros) and close to Equinix CH3.
5.29 miles XO: (Oak Brook)
5.29 miles US Signal Oakbrook
800a 480V 3 phase 450kW diesel generator with 24 hour run time at full load 500kVa UPS capacity with battery backup
5.40 miles NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
5.43 miles 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty
5.50 miles 2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT
5.50 miles Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1
5.51 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.
5.51 miles ServerCentral CH1
5.51 miles ColoCrossing CH1
5.55 miles 1450 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT
5.58 miles Lumen Broadview
5.72 miles EdgeConneX CHI01
5.73 miles Edgeconnex Chicago Campus
The first Chicago site was leaked to the press in Oct 2016. Microsoft is expected to be the anchor tenant with the site supporting up to 25-30 MWs.
5.74 miles Stream Chicago II
5.74 miles Skybox Chicago I
5.79 miles EdgeConneX CHI02
5.82 miles Equinix Chicago CH3
5.86 miles Stream Chicago I
6.28 miles CoreWeave: US Central ORD1
6.34 miles STACK Chicago CHI01
6.38 miles NTT: 1200 N Arlington Heights (Planned)
Expansion site acquired in November 2023.
6.40 miles STACK Chicago CHI02
6.43 miles NTT: 1250 N Arlington Heights (Planned)
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building
6.45 miles Iron Mountain Chicago
Iron Mountain is planning a (but not yet constructed facility in Chicago.)
6.58 miles NTT Chicago CH1
RagingWire’s Chicago CH1 Data Center is under construction and in the pre-leasing stage. It will be a 654,000 square foot, 52 megawatt facility on a 19-acre fenced campus near Chicago.
6.79 miles 360TCS-Lombard
6.79 miles Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard
7.37 miles Prime Elk Grove
7.55 miles CyrusOne Chicago Lombard
9 MW of critical capacity Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
7.61 miles T5 Chicago II
7.79 miles CenturyLink: Arlington Heights
7.89 miles CloudHQ Mount Prospect ORD3
8.00 miles Equinix Chicago CH7
8.00 miles Verizon Chicago (Downers Grove)
10.77 miles Colocation America CH3
10.77 miles DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect
12.09 miles Complete Source Schaumburg
12.21 miles Evoque Lisle CH1
13.14 miles Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)
14.05 miles QTS Chicago
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
14.14 miles Cogent Naperville
14.21 miles Lumen Chicago 2
14.28 miles Lumen Chicago 4
14.61 miles TierPoint Chicago Polk
14.62 miles Lumen Chicago 1
14.62 miles GTT - 111 North Canal
14.63 miles First Communications Chicago
14.78 miles Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal
4 MW Critical Load on Each Floor (Floors 1-5) 130-160 Watts per Raised Floor SF
14.78 miles DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
14.78 miles Lumen Chicago 6
14.88 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.
14.91 miles Lumen Chicago 3
14.95 miles Cogent: 216 W Jackson
15.09 miles Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells
The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
15.09 miles GTT - 717 South Wells
15.09 miles Atlantic Metro ORD3
15.09 miles Steadfast Chicago 725 Wells
15.09 miles Colo@ Chicago
15.09 miles Crown Castle 725 S Wells
15.09 miles 725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems
1547 Acquired the site in December of 2018.
15.13 miles QuadraNet Chicago
15.13 miles Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
15.13 miles CoreSite Chicago CH1
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
15.13 miles 365 Chicago
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
15.13 miles InfoRelay Chicago
15.17 miles XO: 140 S Dearborn
15.23 miles Cogent: 600 S Federal
15.23 miles Colocation America CH2
15.23 miles Lumen Chicago 5
15.23 miles 600 S Federal - Digital Realty
15.36 miles Microsoft Hoffman Estates 2
15.49 miles Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1
16.12 miles NetSource Chicago
16.16 miles Cyxtera Chicago CH2
Within DRT's Cermak carrier hotel
16.16 miles Cyxtera Chicago CH4
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
16.16 miles Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
16.16 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.
16.16 miles 350 E Cermak - Digital Realty
16.16 miles Colocation America CH1
16.16 miles Atlantic Metro ORD0
16.17 miles ServerCentral Chicago DRT-CH1
17.25 miles New Continuum: 603 Discovery
17.53 miles 1547 Chicago Midway Technology Centre
18.47 miles 4267 Meridian Pkwy: Lincoln Rackhouse
The facility was acquired when Lincoln Rackhouse acquired Bytegrid in 2019.
18.75 miles CyrusOne Chicago Aurora CME
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.
18.85 miles Compass Hoffman Estates

Microsoft Chicago Northlake Data Center Photos


Container Canyon" area

Northlake substation on campus

Gens stacked up
Source: MH Architects

Cooling Towers
Source: MH Architects

State of Azure Locations as of July 2019
Posted in Microsoft Azure
Source: Microsoft

Conceptual Azure Regions and Availability Zones diagram
Posted in Microsoft Azure
Source: Microsoft

Operating Company

Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

Azure Regions

An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

Geographies

An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Availability Zones

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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