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Corneils Rd & Beecher Rd
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Prologis: Project Steel 1
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Prologis: Project Steel Campus
Site planned for 2029 and has
expansions through 2030
Utility Provider: ComEd
Floors: 2
Lot Size:
540 acres
Sites on this Campus:
Phase 1 of Prologis's planned Project Steel data center campus in Yorkville, Illinois. It covers Buildings 1 to 4, two-story data centers of about 425,000 sq ft each, plus Substations 1 and 2, east of the ComEd 345 kV corridor off Corneils and Beecher roads. Two substations of about 27 and 14 acres replaced two Phase 1 buildings from the 2025 plan.
Each building is planned with 43 diesel generators rated 3 MW each and 84 air-cooled chillers. ComEd will serve the campus. Prologis plans to start construction in summer 2027, with Buildings 1 and 2 first.
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Sites within 15 miles of Prologis: Project Steel 1
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| 0.79 miles | Green Door: Yorkville Hagemann |
Green Door Capital land-bank data center tract of about 138 acres on Eldamain Road in Yorkville, Illinois, held by Yorkville Nexus III LLC. Annexed and rezoned M-2 in 2024; no end user or site plan has been filed. Borders Prologis Project Steel near ComEd's Plano substation.
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| 0.93 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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| 1.04 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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| 1.21 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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| 1.32 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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| 1.35 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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| 1.35 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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| 1.36 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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| 1.40 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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| 1.44 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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| 1.49 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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| 1.50 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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| 1.50 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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| 1.50 miles | North ValleyInterested 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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| 1.59 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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| 1.86 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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| 2.84 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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| 3.16 miles | Savion: Plano Expansion | |
| 13.33 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC2 |
CyrusOne's CHI2 second building is located at 2805 Diehl Road, Aurora, IL.
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| 13.50 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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| 13.52 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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| 13.54 miles | DataCanopy: Chicago, IL | |
| 13.56 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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| 13.63 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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| 13.84 miles | Edged Energy: Chicago ORD03 |
This facility will be part of Edged Energy's Aurora TechPark in Chicago.
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| 13.85 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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| 13.86 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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| 13.93 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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| 13.97 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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| 14.02 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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| 14.02 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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| 14.02 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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| 14.02 miles | 4267 Meridian Pkwy: Lincoln Rackhouse |
The facility was acquired when Lincoln Rackhouse acquired Bytegrid in 2019.
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| 15.18 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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| 16.18 miles | NetSource Chicago | |
| 16.73 miles | Summit: Naperville | |
| 16.77 miles | SBA Edge: 603 Discovery |
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
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| 17.37 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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| 18.18 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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| 18.20 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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| 18.26 miles | Equinix: CH9 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.31 miles | Equinix: CH10 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.33 miles | Cogent Naperville | |
| 18.37 miles | Equinix: CH11 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.47 miles | PointInterested 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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| 18.52 miles | Hub BetaInterested 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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| 18.64 miles | Equinix: CH12 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.68 miles | Karis: DeKalb 6 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.72 miles | Equinix: CH13 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.73 miles | EastInterested 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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| 18.75 miles | Karis: DeKalb 5 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.77 miles | Karis: DeKalb 7 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.80 miles | Equinix: CH14 |
This facility will be a part of Equinix's Minooka campus in Illinois.
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| 18.81 miles | Karis: DeKalb 4 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.82 miles | Karis: DeKalb 2 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.83 miles | Ridge PrimeInterested 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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| 18.88 miles | Karis: DeKalb 3 |
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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| 18.88 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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| 18.88 miles | Edge PlazaInterested 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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| 19.66 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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Prologis, Inc. stands as the global leader in logistics real estate. Through partnerships with its customers and communities, the company develops modern, high-quality properties that establish industry standards for innovative building design and sustainability. The organization owns or maintains investments in properties and development projects totaling approximately 1.2 billion square feet across 19 countries, facilitating 2.8% of the world's GDP. Extending beyond traditional real estate, the company's Essentials platform optimizes its global asset portfolio to provide customers with solutions addressing contemporary warehouse and shipping challenges. Through Prologis Ventures, the company invests in logistics innovation and technology companies to drive the modernization of supply chains worldwide.
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