Midwest US Data Center News

Oakland University Calls for Data Center Proposals

Oakland University (OU) in Rochester, Michigan, has released a "request for proposals" (RFP) last month, detailing the data center project planned for a five-acre site located at 253 Pioneer Drive, Rochester, on the existing parking lot P-35.The Oakland Press reports that it is this substation...

July 12, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

Oppidan Breaks Bround on Data Center in Eagan, Minnesota

US real estate firm Oppidan Investment Company this week broke ground on a 61,000 sq ft (5,667 sqm) build-to-suit data center on Argenta Trail in Eagan. Oppidan is serving as the landlord and directly financing, developing, and delivering the facility in partnership with a tenant.“This is a de...

June 05, 2025

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Minnesota

MISO approves regional transmission plan

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) board has approved a $21.9 billion long-range transmission plan. The new transmission lines will span 1,800 miles and include some that will connect directly to PJM Interconnection’s 765kV system in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. “The main t...

December 17, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

Prologis sells Chicago warehouse to HMC Capital

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 Capi...

December 12, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chicago

Indiana Michigan Power agrees grid connection deal large load customers

Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) has reached an agreement with the Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor, Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, Amazon Data Services, Google, Microsoft, and the Data Center Coalition outlining the terms for connecting new large loads to the Indiana grid.A...

November 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

Michigan extends data center tax breaks

Legislators in the Michigan House of Representatives have approved extended tax breaks for data centers in a move aimed at attracting business from the hyperscalers. It was approved 64-45 in a vote led by the Democrats, but with support from many Republican lawmakers.Rep. Joey Andrews, who spo...

November 21, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley

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 ...

November 20, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Chicago

Amazon purchases land n Minnesota, for data center

Amazon has purchased 348 acres of land in Becker, Minnesota, for a data center project. According to a real estate filing published with the Minnesota Department of Revenue, the parcel will be used for a data center and was previously part of Xcel Energy Inc.'s Sherco Site.Xcel spokesperson Ke...

November 11, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Minnesota

Indiana advocacy group calls for state data center moratorium

Indiana consumer and environmental advocacy organization Citizens Action Coalition (CAC) has called for a pause on new hyperscale data center development in the state. The group this week called on the Indiana General Assembly to enact a moratorium on new hyperscale data centers used to power ...

October 30, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

1547 CSR and Harrison Street acquire carrier hotel in Indiana

Fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547) and Harrison Street announced the acquisition of the Global Access Point Union Station data center located in Northern Indiana. This facility offers access to more than 20 telecommunication network service providers, totaling 75,000 sq ft (6,9...

September 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

Meta signs new renewable energy deal in Indiana

Meta has signed a long-term Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement with Arevon Energy, a renewable energy developer, owner, and operator for its Heirloom Solar Project in Pike County, Indiana. “Arevon is proud to once again partner with Meta and contribute to their sustainability goal o...

August 25, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

TierPoint to expand data center footprint in St. Louis, Missouri

US operator TierPoint this week announced that it has acquired a building in downtown St. Louis which it plans to retrofit into an enterprise-grade data center. ver the next year, the first phase of investment will build out 22,600 square feet of data center production space and 5MW of utility...

August 16, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Missouri

Edged unveils new data center in New Albany, Ohio

Data center firm Edged Energy has officially announced plans for a new data center located at 6525 New Albany Road East, the 206,000 sq ft (19,140 sqm) facility will offer 24MW across two stories. Construction is underway and expected to be completed in July 2025. “We are on a mission to buil...

August 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

Google Cloud to provide private cloud region and colocation facility for CME Group

Google Cloud is providing a private cloud region for financial services company CME Group in Aurora, Illinois which will host a specialized platform to support global trading of CME's futures and options markets and will provide traders with access to a cloud-based low-latency network and high...

June 28, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

Provident Realty Advisors withdraws proposal for Indiana data center

Provident Realty Advisors notified Chesterton officials on June 10 about its intention to withdraw its proposal for a $1.3 billion data center in Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana.The led to from residents regarding the development, with concerns surrounding negative impacts of air, water, en...

June 14, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) this week announced it has installed additional graphics processing units (GPUs) to its private cloud Radiant system. The University acquired the GPU with a funding commitment of $50 m...

May 09, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Illinois

AI data center project proposed in Michigan

An unnamed company is reportedly looking at building an ‘AI data center’ on 280 acres on Yore Avenue near Lake Michigan College. Further details are unavailable at this time. Benton Charter Township is a charter township in Berrien County, Michigan, located on the east side of Lake Michigan."I...

April 06, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Michigan

SK Hynix confirms investment in Indiana advanced chip packaging facility

The South Korean chip manufacturer SK Hynix has confirmed earlier reports about building an advanced chip packaging facility in Indiania as it revealed its plans to invest $3.87 billion in the plant which will produce next-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM), the highest-performing Dynamic...

April 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Indiana

Expedient unveils new facility in Columbus, Ohio

Expedient this week announced that it has launched services from a data center in Columbus, Ohio, previously operated by an insurance firm and has added a former Nationwide data center near Columbus to its portfolio. This facility located at 281 E. Powell Road in Lewis Center township, the 102...

February 15, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Ohio

Data Center sold in West Des Moines, Iowa

Wells Fargo recently sold 7001 Westown Parkway and 1725 68th Street, which had been listed on its site for a combined $16.5 million, to commercial and residential brokerage WB Realty Co. A JLL sales brochure described the property as offering 36,230 square meters of office space, along with an...

January 04, 2024

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Iowa

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