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Data Center Development in Wisconsin delayed

A data center development in Menomonie, Wisconsin, has been delayed. In a meeting on September 22, Mayor Randy Knaack said that he had drafted a memo to developer Balloonist LLC stating that the city was no longer interested in pursuing the project.“I’m not thrilled about the data center comin...

September 26, 2025

Wisconsin

Michigan’s 123Net Adds 4MW to Detroit Facility

Michigan-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) 123Net has expanded its data center in Detroit. Located at 24700 Northwestern Highway in the Southfield area of Detroit, DC1 offers 80,000 sq ft (7,432 sqm) of colocation space. The site has up to 20MW of available utility power. The expansion re...

September 26, 2025

Michigan

New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center

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...

September 12, 2025

Chicago

Compass Mining Energizes 7.5MW Site in Minnesota

Bitcoin mining and infrastructure services provider Compass Mining has energized a new 7.5MW site in Minnesota named Minnesota 2. It will be Compass's second facility in Minnesota, and the 23rd facility run by the company across the US and Canada.Compass Mining will be responsible for operatin...

September 10, 2025

Minnesota

North Dakota State University Awarded $3.85m for Supercomputer

North Dakota State University (NDSU) has been awarded $3.85 million to acquire and deploy an AI supercomputer named Bison, which will be housed in the university’s Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) data center and is expected to come online in the summer of 202...

September 03, 2025

North Dakota

Former Air Force Data Center up for Sale in Michigan

A former US Air Force data center, used as a call center until recently, is up for sale in Michigan. Sitting on 3.6 acres in Iosco County’s Wurtsmith Industrial District, the single-story facility spans 13,100 sq ft (1,215 sqm).It was originally a data center supporting Wurtsmith Air Force Bas...

September 03, 2025

Michigan

Rezoning Requests Approved for Data Center in Ohio

Rezoning requests for a data center outside Toledo, Ohio, have been approved. The land parcels are located in Oregon, a city in Lucas County east of Toledo. The Oregon City Council unanimously approved requests for seven land parcels totaling 20 acres to be rezoned from ‘Agricultural District’...

September 01, 2025

Ohio

Opposition Calls to Relocate $1.2bn University of Michigan Data Centers

Two data centers planned by the University of Michigan (U-M) have been asked to relocate following a meeting by local officials. The data centers are part of a $1.2bn project, and are currently planned for 124 acres purchased by U-M off Textile Road in Ypsilanti Township in June 2024.The data ...

August 19, 2025

Michigan

Flagstar Bank Selects Mphasis for Data Center Set Up

Michigan's Flagstar Bank has selected Mphasis for the setup and inauguration of its upcoming data center facility. Flagstar describes it as "world-class," adding that it will support the bank's critical infrastructure and future growth and will enable it to leverage "modern data center capabil...

August 12, 2025

Michigan

$10m Natural Gas Pipeline to Supply Onsite Fuel Cell Facility at Ohio Facility

Aspire Energy Express, the Ohio subsidiary of Chesapeake Utilities, has partnered with American Electric Power (AEP) to build and operate an intrastate natural gas pipeline to serve a fuel cell facility set to power a data center behind-the-meter. The new natural gas pipeline will cost approxi...

August 05, 2025

Ohio

Meta Partners with Amrize

Social media giant Meta and concrete maker Amrize last week announced a partnership to develop a “first-of-its-kind, AI-optimized concrete mix” tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minnesota.“We work to design our data centers as efficiently and sustainably a...

July 25, 2025

Minnesota

SunRocket Capital Funds $15m Solar and Storage Project in Illinois

US-based private lender SunRocket Capital has closed a $15 million financing package for a solar with battery storage project designed to provide power to the data center sector in Illinois.“SunRocket Capital is proud to facilitate the growth of renewable energy infrastructure that powers the ...

July 18, 2025

Illinois

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minnesota

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