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Pioneer Development, LLC has filed an application for Project Cardinal, a sprawling data center campus planned for over 1,000 acres in Yorkville, Kendall County. The proposal outlines the construction of 14 two-story data center buildings, encompassing a total of 17 million square feet (1.57 million square meters), along with two on-site substations and a switchyard.
The project is envisioned in phases, with each phase bringing one building online within 24 months of its groundbreaking. The first data center is anticipated to be operational by 2029.
Eleven of the data centers are designed to offer approximately 1.9 million square feet (176,515 square meters) of space, while the remaining three buildings will contribute an additional 940,000 square feet (87,330 square meters).
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.46 miles | Project Cardinal Expansion | |
| 0.62 miles | Prologis: Project Steel |
Project Steel involves developing a 540-acre campus featuring 24 two-story data center buildings, totaling over 9 million square feet (836,125 sqm), along with three substations.
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| 0.83 miles | Prologis: Project Steel Expansion | |
| 1.97 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft acquired 500 acres of land around Eldamain and Corneils roads from three landowners in Plano, Illinois.
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| 2.60 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 8 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.60 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 7 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.68 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 3 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.68 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 9 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.70 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 6 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.77 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 5 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.78 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 4 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.79 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville 2 |
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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| 2.82 miles | CyrusOne: Yorkville Campus |
CyrusOne is building a huge data center campus on 228 acres in Kendall County outside of Chicago, Illinois. The data center campus will have up to nine (9) two-story buildings and a centralized 800,000-square-foot electric substation.
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| 3.19 miles | Savion: Plano, Illinois |
Savion, the company developing the massive 250MW Plano Skies Energy Center solar project in Kendall County, Illinois, is now proposing to add a large data center campus to the development.
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| 3.44 miles | Savion: Plano Expansion | |
| 8.66 miles | Colovore: Chicago |
Colovore is developing a liquid-cooled colocation data center in Chicago, Illinois, with construction expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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| 13.06 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC2 |
CyrusOne's CHI2 second building is located at 2805 Diehl Road, Aurora, IL.
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| 13.20 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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| 13.22 miles | CyrusOne: Aurora CHI2 |
The CyrusOne CHI2 data center is located on 16 acres, 45 minutes southwest of Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
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| 13.26 miles | DataCanopy: Chicago, IL | |
| 13.28 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.
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| 13.31 miles | CyrusOne: Aurora III (CHI3) |
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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| 13.52 miles | Edged Energy: Chicago ORD03 |
This facility will be part of Edged Energy's Aurora TechPark in Chicago.
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| 13.52 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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| 13.69 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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| 13.96 miles | 4267 Meridian Pkwy: Lincoln Rackhouse |
The facility was acquired when Lincoln Rackhouse acquired Bytegrid in 2019.
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| 13.96 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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| 14.51 miles | Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset |
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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| 15.93 miles | NetSource Chicago | |
| 16.09 miles | SBA Edge: 603 Discovery |
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
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| 16.87 miles | Summit: Naperville | |
| 17.25 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Three years after construction began, the social media giant Meta's new data center in DeKalb became officially operational in December 2023.
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| 17.31 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Three years after construction began, the social media giant Meta's new data center in DeKalb became officially operational in December 2023.
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| 17.46 miles | Karis: DeKalb 6 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 17.51 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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| 17.52 miles | Karis: DeKalb 5 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 17.53 miles | Karis: DeKalb 7 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 17.58 miles | Karis: DeKalb 2 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 17.59 miles | Karis: DeKalb 4 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 17.63 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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| 17.64 miles | Karis: DeKalb Campus |
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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| 17.65 miles | Karis: DeKalb 3 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 17.68 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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| 18.20 miles | Cogent Naperville | |
| 19.53 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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| 19.53 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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| 19.58 miles | Equinix: CH9 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 19.64 miles | Equinix: CH10 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 19.69 miles | Equinix: CH11 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 19.97 miles | Equinix: CH12 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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