Midwest US Data Center News

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building an operations center in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Gerald R. Ford International Airport is building a new operations and communications center, which includes, a data center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The project will cost the Company $7.7 million. Gerald R. Ford International airport says the new facility will be on the east side of the airp...

June 30, 2021

Grand Rapids MI

Digital Crossroad data center in Hammond to expand following a $28 million investment

The Digital Crossroad data center based in Hammond has received a $28 million investment from Energy Solutions Group and United Leasing and Finance for further expansion. Currently, in its first phase, the Digital Crossroad site features 105,000 sq ft of space and 6MW of capacity and is repor...

June 25, 2021

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Dakota State University wants $6m for data center remodeling

Dakota State University (DSU) has requested $6 million and $1.8 million to replace its existing data center and IT hardware, respectively. The request was made during a meeting between South Dakota’s public university system and its governing body. DSU asked for funds to replace its existing d...

June 25, 2021

South Dakota

Plans for Harvard's old Motorola factory to become solar-powered data center

The former Motorola manufacturing and distribution facility in Harvard, Illinois, may be given new life, with prospective planners looking into transforming the building into a solar-powered data center.Green Data Center Real Estate in Vancouver is reportedly working with Solar Alliance of Kno...

June 04, 2021

Illinois

Facebook announces another data center expansion in Altoona, Iowa

Facebook has announced that it would be expanding its Altoona data center campus. The expansion will see Facebook add two more buildings to its existing eight buildings at the facility. The expansion will also see the total area space to 4.1 million square feet. Facebook initially announced it...

May 28, 2021

Facebook Altoona Iowa

Microsoft gains approval for data center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Microsoft just gained approval from Hoffman Estates village board members to build a data center outside of Chicago, Illinois. The approved data center building is one of the two planned buildings at the 53-acre site. A 250,000 square feet building would be erected at the first phase while the...

May 20, 2021

Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1

Core Scientific to invest more than $100 million in new North Dakota data center

Core Scientific has announced that it will build a new data center based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after securing a $269,000 loan from the Grand Forks Growth Fund.In partnership with Nodak Electric Cooperative and Minnkota Power Cooperative, the blockchain company has said it plans to inve...

May 19, 2021

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

Foxconn opens globe-shaped data center at Wisconsin facility

Foxconn has just opened its Globe Data Center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. The data center building is 34,000 square feet in size and, it includes a 100 feet steel sphere as part of its design. The facility’s steel globe frame was initially completed in September 2020 before the installation ...

May 18, 2021

Foxconn Industrial Internet Wisconsin

Involta acquires SecureData 365, taking over Canton data center

Involta has announced its acquisition of SecureData 365. As part of this acquisition, Involta will take over the company’s 29,960 sq ft (2,780 sq m) data center based in Canton, Ohio.The acquisition of the Canton facility means the company will now operate five facilities in Ohio. Its current...

May 06, 2021

Ark: Canton

Core Scientific Announces Expansion Into North Dakota

BELLEVUE, Wash., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Scientific (the "Company"), the leader in customizable infrastructure and software solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, today announced that it has expanded its footprint with its agreement to develop its sixth mining and coloc...

May 05, 2021

Core Scientific: Grand Forks

DataBank is Expanding its IND1 data center

DataBank has announced an expansion of its IND1 data center in Indiana. The company is a leading provider of enterprise-class colocation, connectivity, and managed services. Part of the expansion includes 6,500 square feet of raised floor space and an additional megawatt of power to meet the g...

April 30, 2021

Databank Indianapolis IND1

Aligned starts work on Chicago Hyperscale Data Center Campus

Aligned has announced that it has begun work on its latest hyperscale data center campus in Chicago, Illinois. The 48MW data center is the first to be constructed on the 18.5 acre campus and stands at 220,000 sqft. Once completed, the campus will offer 100+MW of capacity. The data center, ...

April 28, 2021

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

Element Critical’s Chicago Data Centers secure $72M loan

Element Critical and parent company Safanad Inc. recently secured a $71.5 million loan to refinance their Chicago data center portfolio. The loan provided by Annaly Capital Management Inc. will go towards renovations for two data center facilities based in the Elk Grove Village area of Chicago...

April 12, 2021

Element Critical CH1

Facebook expanding Papillion Campus

Facebook just announced that it would be expanding its data center campus in Papillion for the second time. Facebook said it would be expanding the data center facility at the intersection of Capehart Road and Nebraska 50 by about 1 million square feet. It also noted that the project would cos...

March 24, 2021

Meta Sarpy Nebraska

Microsoft is planning 400,000 sqft Campus in Hoffman Estates

According to plans submitted to the Hoffman Estates council, Microsoft aims to build two data centers on the 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Blvd in two phases. Phase one would see a 250,000 sq ft (23,200 sqm) building erected by the end of 2022. The second phase would be a 150,000 ...

March 09, 2021

Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1

Cologix Constructing COL4 as it Expands its Columbus Campus

Cologix has announced it is building a fourth data center on its campus in Columbus, Ohio. The campus already has 3 existing facilities. COL1 & COL2 are in the same building. The facilities were acquired via DataCenter.BZ in 2014 COL3 (160,000sqft) was built in 2018 COL4 is the newest ad...

March 03, 2021

Cologix Columbus COL4

Cosentry’s Omaha-Midlands Data Center Becomes the First LEED Gold Certified Data Center in Iowa

OMAHA, NE (PRWEB) Cosentry, the Midwest leader in data center services, announced today that their Omaha-Midlands Data Center has achieved LEED Gold Certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), making it the only LEED Gold Data center in Nebraska and one of just 21 dat...

February 27, 2021

TierPoint Omaha Midlands

Compute North Starts Major Expansion at Nebraska Data Center to Meet High Customer Demand

As interest in the digital asset space increases, the 100MW facility now has the capacity to support new deals with current customers and emerging players in the cryptocurrency mining space. EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Feb. 25, 2021 — Compute North, an industry leader in economical, large-scale comp...

February 25, 2021

Marathon Digital: Kearney, Nebraska

Bluebird Network Acquires ColoHub Data Center in Quad Cities, Iowa

Bluebird Press Release on January 5, 2021 COLUMBIA, MO – Bluebird Network – a communications infrastructure provider and data center operator – is excited to announce that effective December 31, 2020, it acquired the ColoHub Data Center—previously owned by Geneseo Communications—located in Bet...

January 05, 2021

Bluebird Quad Cities

Stream Expands in Elk Grove

Stream has announced that is expanding in the Chicago metro. The new building will be near the company's first data center in Elk Grove and will have 130,000 sqft of raised floor and 32-megawatts at full build-out. The first phase will begin in February 2021 and will finish in Q3 with 4 MW ini...

December 09, 2020

Stream Chicago II

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