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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

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

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

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

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

Iowa

Meta to proceed with 750,000 square feet facility in Rosemount city Council

The Rosemount City Council has voted unanimously in favor of the Meta data center development in Minnesota. Following this vote, the facility will be developed on part of the University of Minnesota's UMore Park. The approved plan d will see a 750,000 sq ft (69,670 sqm) data center campus be d...

December 28, 2023

Minnesota

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

November 30, 2023

Illinois

Ohio firefighters killed in a tower maintenance accident

Concord-Green fire chief Ralph Stegbauer and fire captain Jeffery Skaggs have both passed away while carrying out tower maintenance outside their firehouse in Ohio. Both firefighters were working on the Fayette County, Ohio tower when the mechanical lift they were in overturned. This accident ...

November 29, 2023

Ohio

Fortune 100 company proposes 12-building DC campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana

An unnamed Fortune 100 company is planning a new 772-acre data center campus between Fort Wayne and New Haven to the east in Allen County. The application for this project, dubbed ‘Project Zodiac,” is for a new facility bound by East Tillman Road, Adams Center Road, and railroad tracks. Wane....

October 12, 2023

Indiana

‘Fortune 200 tech company’ looks to build $750m campus in northern Ohio

An unnamed Fortune 200 tech company plans to build a $750 million data center campus on about 750 acres between Perrysburg and Bowling Green in northern Ohio. This company is also undergoing deals and negotiations through a shell company, Liames LLC.Middleton Township trustees discussed plans ...

October 04, 2023

Ohio

Vacant data center in Blair, Nebraska up for sale

Cushman & Wakefield has listed a data center for sale at 256 E. Grant Street in Blair. The asking price for this facility outside Omaha, Nebraska, is listed as $1.76 million on the site and $1.5 million in the sales brochure.The 7,564 sq ft (700 sqm) facility was built on six acres in Wash...

October 03, 2023

Nebraska

Amazon to Invest in 5 Facility Campus in Ohio

Amazon Web Services plans to invest $3.5 billion in New Albany by 2020 to expand its footprint around Columbus, Ohio. The New Albany City Council announced it had approved a resolution enabling AWS to proceed with its expansion investment plan. This is only part of Amazon's $7.5 billion invest...

September 29, 2023

AWS US East (Ohio)

St. Louis Park school district receives conditional land use permit for DC center construction

The Minnesota St. Louis Park City Council has approved a conditional use permit (CUP) for constructing a data center at 6400 Walker Street. Information from the district’s website reveals that the new center will be built southeast of the football field and next to an existing maintenance buil...

September 27, 2023

Minnesota

Compass Datacenters Acquires Former Sears HQ for $194M to Build Data Center Campus

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 clo...

September 18, 2023

Compass Hoffman Estates

A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m.“This building is extremely well maintain...

September 14, 2023

Detroit

Michigan's Kmart headquarters and data center will be demolished

The Troy, Michigan, Kmart corporate office and data center will be destroyed soon. The 906,000-square-foot facility is located at 3100 W. Big Beaver Road on a 40-acre lot. No post-demolition arrangements for the site have been revealed publicly at this time. The head offices have been vacant s...

September 14, 2023

Michigan

Michigan site of the former ADP data center is up for auction

The former location of an ADP office and data center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is up for auction. Outside of Ann Arbor, Colliers and Ten-X are selling the A2 West Technical Center in Scio Township. The auction is scheduled to begin at the midpoint of October with an opening bid of $1.6 million. ...

September 04, 2023

Michigan

Southeast Nebraska 911 services went down after Lincoln data center fire

On Saturday, September 2, a fire at a data center in Lincoln, Nebraska, shut down 911 services in the state's southeast. According to reports, the data center in issue was a Windstream facility in Lincoln. A transformer shorted and exploded due to a fire in the data center, cutting power to th...

September 04, 2023

Nebraska

Northern Ohio will see the construction of a 600-acre data center

A data center construction is proposed for the northern Ohio region outside Toledo. The Blade reports that preparations are underway to locate a data center on hundreds of acres in Middleton Township, west of Interstate 75 and near the intersection of State Routes 582 and 25. Details regarding...

September 01, 2023

Ohio

Netsolus, a Kansas City data center provider, is acquired by IP Pathways

IP Pathways bought Netsolus, a Missouri-based MSP. This week, IP Pathways of Des Moines, Iowa, announced that it will merge with Netsolus of Kansas City, broadening its footprint and services in the Kansas City region. The deal's terms were not disclosed.IP Pathways was founded in 2007 and pro...

August 24, 2023

Kansas

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