E11: Building India’s Digital Backbone with Sharad Agarwal
Mar 12, 2026
Eric Bell
World
Steadfast first established the site in 350 E Cermak in 2001 and subsequently expanded in 2005, 2009, and 2011.
Digital Realty Trust owns the building at 350 Cermak and is Steadfast's Landlord.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.00 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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| 0.00 miles | Colocation America CH1 |
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| 0.00 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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| 0.00 miles | Digital Realty: ORD10 |
Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
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| 0.02 miles | Deft: Downtown CH1 | |
| 0.03 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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| 1.30 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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| 1.50 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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| 1.50 miles | Crown Castle 725 S Wells |
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| 1.52 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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| 1.53 miles | Lumen Chicago 5 | |
| 1.53 miles | Cogent: 600 S Federal | |
| 1.53 miles | Colocation America CH2 | |
| 1.53 miles | Digital Realty: Chicago ORD11 | |
| 1.53 miles | DataBank (ORD1) 600 S Federal | |
| 1.62 miles | DataBank (ORD2) 840 S Canal |
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| 1.62 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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| 1.66 miles | 365 Chicago |
The site is a former Switch and Data site (also owned by Equinix for a short period.)
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| 1.66 miles | CoreSite Chicago CH1 |
Once owned by the Western Union company, the building was formerly known as "The Telegraph Building."
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| 1.66 miles | Cogent: 427 S LaSalle | |
| 1.68 miles | QuadraNet Chicago | |
| 1.71 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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| 1.75 miles | First Communications Chicago | |
| 1.77 miles | TierPoint Chicago Polk |
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| 1.88 miles | Cogent: 216 W Jackson | |
| 1.88 miles | Verizon: 140 S Dearborn | |
| 2.25 miles | Lumen Chicago 6 |
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| 2.33 miles | Lumen Chicago 1 |
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| 2.33 miles | EXA - 111 North Canal |
Former GTT suite
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| 2.34 miles | Lumen Chicago 3 |
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| 2.61 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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| 2.68 miles | QTS: Chicago Campus |
The campus was a former Sun Times Press Facility and was acquired in 2014
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| 2.72 miles | QTS: Chicago 3 |
QTS plans to build another data center building on its Chicago Campus.
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| 2.98 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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| 3.24 miles | Lumen Chicago 4 | |
| 3.39 miles | Lumen Chicago 2 | |
| 4.09 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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| 8.78 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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| 8.81 miles | Related Digital: Chicago Expansion | |
| 11.23 miles | Digital Crossroad: Hammond, IN (Phase 2) |
Digital Crossroad is planning to expand its campus in Hammond, Indiana. The company plans to add another 180,000 sq ft (16,720 sqm) building in the second phase.
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| 11.33 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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| 12.35 miles | Lumen Broadview | |
| 13.31 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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| 13.32 miles | Tierpoint Chicago West | |
| 13.39 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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| 13.40 miles | Digital Realty: ORD14 | |
| 13.40 miles | Digital Realty: ORD13 | |
| 13.42 miles | Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12 | |
| 13.54 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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| 15.57 miles | Verizon: Swift Dr |
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| 15.57 miles | DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook |
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| 15.57 miles | LexusNexis Oak Brook | |
| 15.77 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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| 15.91 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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| 15.93 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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| 16.16 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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| 16.29 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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| 16.54 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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| 16.54 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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| 16.54 miles | Verizon: (Oak Brook) | |
| 16.66 miles | NYI Chicago (Oak Brook) | |
| 17.30 miles | Iron Mountain Chicago |
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
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| 18.47 miles | Equinix Chicago CH7 |
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| 19.45 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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| 19.65 miles | CyrusOne: Wood Dale CHI6 |
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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| 19.69 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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| 19.71 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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| 19.77 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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| 19.87 miles | EdgeConneX CHI01 |
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| 19.88 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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| 19.90 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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| 19.97 miles | EdgeConneX CHI02 | |
| 19.98 miles | Stream Chicago I |
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
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| 19.98 miles | 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty |
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