Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal

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Fully operational facility

Chicago: Downtown

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Chicago

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Illinois

State
Midwest US

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United States

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North America

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Americas

Region

Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal

PUE: 1.4

Lot Size: 5 acres

Sites leasing space from ServerFarm Realty :

DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal

SqFt

Total Building Size

Total Power

Electrical Power

The Chicago site is powered by 12 utility feeds from 4 substations in a redundant configuration. The block redundant architecture is configured so that a single 2 MW catcher buss supports four (4) 2 MW primary busses. Each primary buss has two (2) 1 MW unity power factor UPS systems that are configured in a distributed redundant architecture. Three (3) 500 kVA/kW UPS units make up a single N+1 1 MW UPS system. Power is then distributed to PDUs located on the data hall floor.

Mechanical

A 1,400 Ton water cooled chilled water plant is utilized for heat rejections. Chilled water is fed via dual risers to each IT floor to create a chilled water loop on each floor. The chilled water is fed to CRAH units configured in an N+4 topology located on the data hall floor. A waterside economizer is utilized in the chilled water plant to maximize efficiency throughout the year, yielding an annual PUE of 1.4.

Full Redevelopment in 2011
443,446 Square Feet (Gross Building) on 5.2 acres
Eight Story Building (Including Lower Level)
15 Carriers Accessible (AT&T, Verizon, AboveNet, 360 Networks, Cogent, CFN, Fiberlink, Level 3/Looking Glass, CenturyLink/Qwest, Zayo, XO, Synesys, Intellifiber, Global Crossing, Paetec)
40MW of Total Electrical Service to Building (12MW Currently in Place)
2-6MW Existing Electrical Utility Services from Medical Center & Jefferson Substations (1-6MW Existing Electrical Utility Maintenance Feed)
4 Additional 6MW Feeds from Taylor Street Substation Being Installed
Taylor Street Feeds will come from Newly Constructed Ring Bus (Fed by Separate Substations)
250 lbs per Square Foot Floor Loading
Generator Enclosure Housing 20 2MW Generators
134,000 Square Feet of Raised Floor Data Center
Highly-Flexible Design - 4 6,000 - 7,500 SF Suites per Floor (1,000kW Critical Load Each)
20 MW Data Center Critical Load
Projected PUE Lower Than 1.4

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840 South Canal

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Sites within 15 miles of Server Farm Realty 840 South Canal

Distance	Site	About
0.00 miles	DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal
0.15 miles	First Communications Chicago
0.17 miles	TierPoint Chicago Polk
0.37 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.
0.37 miles	Crown Castle 725 S Wells
0.38 miles	Netrality Chicago: 717 S Wells	The 10 story building was constructed in 1923 and eventually was converted into a data center.
0.56 miles	CoreSite Chicago CH1	Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
0.56 miles	365 Chicago	The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
0.56 miles	Cogent: 427 S LaSalle
0.56 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.
0.57 miles	Cogent: 600 S Federal
0.57 miles	Colocation America CH2
0.57 miles	Lumen Chicago 5
0.57 miles	Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11
0.57 miles	QuadraNet Chicago
0.58 miles	DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal
0.58 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.
0.59 miles	Cogent: 216 W Jackson
0.81 miles	Verizon: 140 S Dearborn
0.89 miles	Lumen Chicago 1
0.89 miles	EXA - 111 North Canal	Former GTT suite
0.90 miles	Lumen Chicago 6
1.10 miles	Lumen Chicago 3
1.62 miles	Colocation America CH1
1.62 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.
1.62 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.
1.62 miles	Steadfast Chicago 350 E Cermak
1.62 miles	Digital Realty: ORD10	Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
1.63 miles	Centersquare: Chicago ORD1(B, C & D)	Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is CTL's Landlord.
1.63 miles	Deft: Downtown CH1
1.81 miles	Lumen Chicago 4
1.85 miles	Metro Edge: Illinois Medical District (IMD)	Commercial real estate investment firm Metro Edge Development is building a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
1.95 miles	Lumen Chicago 2
2.33 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.
2.42 miles	QTS: Chicago 3	QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
2.46 miles	QTS: Chicago Campus	The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
5.32 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.
8.04 miles	MicroLink: Chicago, IL	MicroLink is planning to build a data center in Chicago, Illinois.
10.35 miles	Related Digital: Chicago, IL	Related Digital is planning a 430-acre campus in Chicago, Illinois, at the old US Steel South Works location.
10.37 miles	Related Digital: Chicago Expansion
11.29 miles	Lumen Broadview
11.86 miles	Tierpoint Chicago West
11.86 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.
11.93 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
11.93 miles	Digital Realty: ORD14
11.94 miles	Digital Realty: ORD13
11.96 miles	Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12
12.08 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.
12.77 miles	CoreWeave: Hammond, IN
12.79 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.
12.89 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.
14.38 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.
14.50 miles	DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook
14.50 miles	Verizon: Swift Dr
14.50 miles	LexusNexis Oak Brook
14.56 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.
14.58 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.
14.78 miles	Center PrimeInterested in this information?Contact us
14.86 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.
15.51 miles	Server Farm Oak Brook	The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
15.51 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
15.51 miles	Verizon: (Oak Brook)
15.58 miles	Robbins Resource Recovery Center
15.63 miles	NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)
15.70 miles	Iron Mountain Chicago	First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
17.60 miles	Equinix Chicago CH7
17.89 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.
18.14 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.
18.19 miles	Element Critical CH1	Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
18.20 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.
18.21 miles	Element Critical CH2	Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
18.32 miles	EdgeConneX CHI01
18.35 miles	EdgeConneX: CHI03	EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000-square-foot, two-story data center building on its Elkgrove campus near Chicago.
18.35 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.
18.42 miles	Stream Chicago I	Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
18.42 miles	EdgeConneX CHI02
18.45 miles	2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty
18.47 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.
18.52 miles	Equinix Chicago CH3
18.60 miles	Stream Chicago II	Stream Data Centers' Chicago II data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois is a 226,000 square foot facility.
18.61 miles	Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1
18.63 miles	Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1
18.63 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.
18.63 miles	HostPapa CH1	Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
18.65 miles	2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT
18.73 miles	1450 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT
18.75 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.
18.78 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.
18.89 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.
18.98 miles	360TCS-Lombard
18.98 miles	Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard
19.06 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.
19.13 miles	STACK Chicago CHI01
19.18 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.
19.23 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.
19.30 miles	CoreWeave: US Central ORD1
19.55 miles	CenturyLink: Arlington Heights
19.57 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.
19.61 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.
19.62 miles	Prime: ORD01-03	Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
19.66 miles	Prime: ORD01-02	Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
19.71 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.
19.77 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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Centrally located, well connected, and completely designed as a data center. This facility offers 20MW of data center critical load with a total electrical service to the building of 40 MW and auto...

Rendering of SFR's Downtown Chicago Facility

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Centrally located, well connected, and completely designed as a data center. This facility offers 20MW of data center critical load with a total electrical service to the building of 40 MW and autonomous back-up power for 24-hours.

Operating Company

Founded in 2010 Server Farm Realty (SFR) develops, operates and leases data center space.

The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Red Sea Group, a global investment company that develops real estate assets around the world, including hotels, residential developments, and data centers.

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Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) bought the majority of Serverfarm's shares. This week, the investment firm announced that, on behalf of Manulife Infrastructure Fund II and its affiliates, it had signed an official contract to acquire a controlling stake in Serverfarm. The terms of...

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June 21, 2022 ServerFarm Realty

Serverfarm has announced that it has expanded its power capacity at its LON1 data center, by adding an additional 8MW of capacity, almost doubling its power capacity. According to Arun Shenoy, CMO at Serverfarm, 3MW of new power capacity will be available in the next four months, “with more to...

SeverFarm becomes signatory of European Climate Neutral Data Center Pact

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ServerFarm is the latest signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact (CNDCP), a pact that commits signatories to become climate neutral by 2030. Achieving this goal will involve the company reducing the emissions its operations produce. Alongside joining the CNDCP, the company has also...

Atlanta: Serverfarm makes 110,000 sqft more of data center space available

November 18, 2021 ServerFarm Realty

Severfarm has made 110,000 square feet (10,200 sqm) of new capacity available at its Atlanta data center, which it acquired from AMD back in 2017. According to the company, the facility's tenant had developed it as an 'enterprise data center' but in fact only occupied around a quarter of the...