August 10, 2026 Chicago
An office building in Chicago, Illinois, is being considered for conversion into a data center. Local media, including ABC, report that the Permit Review Committee of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks has given initial approval to plans to convert part of the 300 West Adams Building into a data...
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June 26, 2026 Chicago
A shuttered incinerator in Robbins, near Chicago, is attracting interest from multiple data center developers. According to NBC and the Chicago Tribune, at least five potential buyers have approached owner Paul Duggan this year about acquiring the 16-acre Robbins Resource Recovery Center site at...
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April 14, 2026 Karis Critical
Data center developer Karis is looking to build a data center on the Big Darby Watershed in central Ohio. In a letter penned by Karis and published by Prairie Township authorities, the company said that it was in the “preliminary stages of evaluating this property for potential development.”“The...
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March 03, 2026 Stream Data Centers
US hydrogen developer Plug Power has agreed to sell a New York site, originally planned to host a clean hydrogen project, to Stream Data Centers for $132.5 million. The hydrogen developer has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Project Gateway site at the STAMP industrial park in New York,...
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October 30, 2025 Related Digital
OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital this week announced plans to develop a data center campus with more than a gigawatt of capacity in Saline Township. It will be part of Stargate, OpenAI's sprawling project to invest $500bn in digital infrastructure over the next four years to support the firm's...
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October 11, 2025 Related Digital
Related Digital has broken ground on a $1.2 billion data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which will host AI infrastructure for CoreWeave. The 115-acre campus will be located on land on Cheyenne Business Parkway, and could eventually offer up to 302MW of capacity. As anchor tenant, CoreWeave...
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September 12, 2025 Chicago
A new liquid-cooled data center is being developed in downtown Chicago, Illinois by HydraVault, a new data center developer. The developer says the facility will be “designed from the ground up” for AI and financial systems.The 20MW two-story facility, located at 2538 South Wabash Avenue, will...
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August 28, 2025 Hut 8 Corp
HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 this week announced plans to develop four new sites across the United States, totaling 1.53GW of capacity under development. The expansion sites range in scale from 50MW to 1GW of utility capacity across Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois. Hut 8 said it...
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August 07, 2025 Stream Data Centers
US data center firm Stream will be acquired by Apollo Global Management following announcement that Apollo-managed funds have agreed to acquire a majority interest in Stream Data Centers (SDC) from Stream Realty Partners, a commercial real estate firm.Apollo said it is set to potentially deploy...
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August 06, 2025 T5 Data Centers
Bitfarms, a cryptomining company pivoting to AI and HPC data centers, this week announced its partnership with T5 Data Centers to “advance HPC/AI development” at its Panther Creek campus in the state.The partnership will focus on pre-construction, design, planning, and development approval...
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July 03, 2025 Hut 8 Corp
Cryptomining and HPC firm Hut 8 has been awarded a five-year capacity contract with the Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) for 310MW of natural gas generation assets. The portfolio is owned and operated by Far North Power Corp, a partnership between Hut 8 and Macquarie...
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July 02, 2025 Hut 8 Corp
Cryptomining and HPC data center firm Hut 8 Corp. has launched a Bitcoin mining data center in Texas which spans 162,000 sq ft (15,050 sqm) and will offer 205MW of capacity at full energization. Vega features a proprietary, rack-based, direct-to-chip liquid cooling system designed in-house by Hut...
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December 12, 2024 Chicago
Prologis has sold a data center development in Chicago, Illinois to HMC Capital. The industrial real estate giant said the warehouse is held in the US Logistics Fund, a Prologis co-investment vehicle focused on premier logistics real estate, including higher and better-use conversions.HMC Capital...
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November 20, 2024 Chicago
Colovore is to expand its footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley and into Reno and Chicago. The company this week announced its second facility in Santa Clara, California, will open next month, and confirmed the locations of its next two sites.“We are staying...
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August 31, 2024 T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers this week announced plans to expand its Atlanta footprint with the development of a new data center campus in South Fulton County known as ATL IV. The company has already acquired land outside Atlanta, Georgia, a 91-acre site in Palmetto already zoned for data center use and...
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May 04, 2024 T5 Data Centers
T5 Data Centers recently revealed its plans to develop a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois as it announced that the 160-acre site, 40 miles north of Chicago, will be used for “multiple data center buildings.” “The new Grayslake campus represents a major investment by T5 to meet the...
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September 18, 2023 Compass Hoffman Estates
Compass Datacenters has acquired the former Sears headquarters, spanning 197 acres in the Chicago area, for $194 million. As Sears continues to downsize its operations, Compass plans to replace the existing 2.4 million square-foot campus with data centers, reflecting the growing demand for cloud...
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July 10, 2023 Stream Data Centers
Stream Data Centers has submitted plans to build a 2 million-square-foot data center campus in the Goodyear neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. Last week, the Goodyear Planning and Zoning Commission approved Stream's request to rezone 104 acres on Litchfield Road and Lower Buckeye Road from I-1...
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July 06, 2023 Stream Data Centers
The Elk Grove area of Chicago is being targeted as a site of data center expansion by numerous operators. Aligned, Stream and Nexstar are all seeking to develop data centers in the area. Aligned, for example, is planning to demolish three office buildings it acquired for $29 million, along...
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June 29, 2023 Chicago
The Chicago, Illinois data center of commercial real estate finance firm Metro Edge Development Partners has been granted site approval. The corporation received site plan approval for its IMD1 data center from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development this month. IMD1 will be a...
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