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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

Sentinum introduces hosting and colocation services

Sentinum's data center in Michigan has started offering colocation and hosting services. Sentinum, a subsidiary of the holding company Ault Alliance, will provide these offerings for artificial intelligence ecosystems and other industries. The corporation intends to expand its operations into ...

August 07, 2023

Michigan

Data center for sale in Topeka, Kansas

There is a data center building available for purchase in Topeka, Kansas. Topeka's 400 SE Jefferson Street is up for sale through Colliers for a price that has not been disclosed. The 16,350-square-foot building in Shawnee County contains a 10,500-square-foot data center and a 5,850-square-foo...

August 03, 2023

Kansas

Edged Energy intends to construct an 18MW data facility in Kansas City, Missouri

A data center is being built by Edged Energy in Kansas City, Missouri. According to BizJournal, the Northland of Kansas City will soon see the start of construction on a data center by engineering and construction company Burns & McDonnell. The company is constructing an 18MW waterless-coo...

July 20, 2023

Kansas

Cologix reveals a new data space at the 511 carrier hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Cologix is expanding its data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by adding a new data hall. With the new MIN5 data center now available for pre-leasing, the company has increased its presence in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, market. Located in the 511 Building carrier hotel, also known as the Min...

July 14, 2023

Cologix

The site plan for Metro Edge Development Partners' Chicago data center approved

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 five-s...

June 29, 2023

Chicago

DataBank expands its data center in Kansas

DataBank's development of the MC13 data center in Lenexa, Kansas, is complete. The company has added 17,000 square feet and 1.8 MW of IT capacity to its MC13 data center, bringing the total build-out to 42,000 square feet and 4.6 MW. In October 2021, DataBank first announced intentions to expa...

June 28, 2023

DataBank Kansas City MCI3

Work begins on a data facility in Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln, Nebraska, looks to have seen the start of construction on a data center campus that was first proposed in 2019. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, the project appears to be progressing, with some excavation occurring in recent months.In July 2019, Agate LLC filed for a 600 million...

June 08, 2023

Nebraska

The University of Minnesota moves ahead with $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus

The University of Minnesota has announced that it's moving forward with a new $70 million-plus data center on the East Bank campus. The university is reportedly accepting design proposals for a two-story, 33,000-square-foot "Advanced Operations Center." The facility will be located west of the...

June 07, 2023

Minnesota

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Illinois's former HSBC data center will be auctioned off later this month. On June 6-8, Cushman & Wakefield will auction off a data center in Volo via LoopNet. According to the listing, the Volo Data Center is a 160,000-square-foot data facility on a 42-acre lot at 300 S Fish Lake Road. Vo...

June 02, 2023

Illinois

Missouri Globe Building Data Center Property For Lease

Data center space is available for lease at the Globe Building carrier hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. The fourth floor of the structure at 710 North Tucker Blvd. has 28,700 square feet of floor space available, of which 16,000 square feet is built-out data center space, according to a listing b...

June 01, 2023

Missouri

Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne fa...

May 25, 2023

Chicago

Can AI training energy consumption be lowered?

These days, A.I. is seemingly never out of the headlines, with concerns about everything from lack of regulations around development, unchecked A.I. growth, and energy and water consumption. Considering the world is in the grips of a climate crisis, and A.I. training is using a growing amount ...

April 21, 2023

Michigan

McLouth locals' concerns about crypto mining facility proposal results in application withdrawal & moratorium

In McLouth, Kansas, residents recently raised their concerns about a proposed data center off of K-92 at a natural gas site. The proposal for this commercial data center went before the Jefferson County Regional Planning Commission last week, and was put forward by Crypto Colo Center Corp. (CC...

March 06, 2023

Kansas

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