Midwest US Data Center News

1547 Acquires a Milwaukee Carrier Hotel (324 E Wisconsin)

1547 Critical Systems Realty has acquired the Wells Building from Ascendant Holdings LLC. The Wells building is located at 324 East Wisconsin in downtown Milwaukee. The building is the defacto carrier hotel in Wisconsin. 1547 Press Release Below: MILWAUKEE, WI (September 3, 2020) – 1547 Data C...

September 04, 2020

1547: Wells Building

Cologix Acquires vXchnge's Minneapolis facility in 511 Building

Cologix has announced it has acquired vXchnge's 16,000 square foot data center in the 511 Building in Minneapolis. The move further strengths Cologix's dominant position in the building. The company's press release is below. Previously in 2015, vXchnge acquired the site from SunGard.Cologix Pr...

August 20, 2020

Cologix: Minnesota Technology Center

Facebook will build a new Data Center Campus in Illinois

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center campus in DeKalb Illinois The DeKalb Data Center facts: The campus is on 505 acres located on Route 23 and Gurler Road. The Facebook-owned land can accommodate five buildings, and two will be completed by 2022. The five buildings wil...

July 02, 2020

Meta: DeKalb IL

CoreSite finishes the first phase of CH2

CoreSite has announced it has completed the first phase of its second data center in Chicago. CoreSite has designed and built a 169,000 square foot facility with a total of 18 megawatts of capacity, known as “CH2,” in the heart of downtown Chicago. The CH2 data center is one of the first purpo...

June 02, 2020

CoreSite Chicago CH2

Amazon adds 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus

Amazon acquired a 112-acre lot adjacent to its New Albany campus. The lot is on the Northeastern corner of Beech Road Northwest and Jug Street. It's just to the north of its 68-acre New Albany campus.Amazon Data Services bought the new lot for $21.8 million on April 20. The $195,000-an-acre p...

May 04, 2020

Amazon: 3180 Beech Rd Campus

Long Ridge Energy Terminal to Develop 300+ Megawatt Data Center Campus

HANNIBAL, OH (PRWEB) -- Long Ridge Energy Terminal, located on 1,600 acres in Hannibal, Ohio announced today its plans to develop a 125-acre data center campus in conjunction with its on-site 485 MW combined cycle power plant currently under construction. Situated between Columbus, Ohio and Pi...

January 29, 2020

DP Facilities: Hannibal

T5 adds a second facility in suburban Chicago

T5 Data Centers has acquired a data center in Elk Grove, on the West side of Chicago. The 164,000 sqft facility is located in the Elk Grove Technology Park and is the company's second facility in Elk Grove. T5's first Chicago area data center is 1.5 miles away at 1441 Touhy Ave The facility ...

January 21, 2020

T5 Chicago II

New Albany Council Approves Incentives for 3rd Amazon facility

Amazon Web Services appears once again to be expanding its footprint in New Albany. The company now has three sites for data-center complexes in the city, with a total investment of $1.7 billion in the New Albany International Business Park, according to a fact sheet provided at the New Albany...

December 18, 2019

Amazon: 3180 Beech Rd Campus

Core Scientific opens world-class blockchain hosting facility in Calvert City, KY

BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Scientific www.corescientific.com today announced that it has opened a new large-scale Blockchain facility in Calvert City, Kentucky. Creating many construction and high-tech jobs, Core Scientific is breathing new life into a steel mill facil...

December 11, 2019

Core Scientific: Calvert City

CyrusOne building a new facility in Council Bluffs, near Google's data centers

CyrusOne is building a new data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located just across the river from Omaha the facility will be near two large Google facilities. CyrusOne choose the location because the company believes more companies will want to store their large data sets near cloud compute c...

December 10, 2019

CyrusOne Council Bluffs

CyrusOne Breaks Ground on New Data Center Campus in Council Bluffs, Iowa

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2019-- CyrusOne a premier global data center REIT, has celebrated breaking ground for its data center site in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Located at 4700 Gifford Rd, the first phase of the facility will be ready for occupation in the Fall of 2020. Upon...

December 10, 2019

CyrusOne Council Bluffs

STACK Acquires Nationwide Insurance Facility and Expands to Ohio

STACK Infrastructure continues to expand its footprint. Stack acquired Nationwide Insurance's facility in New Albany, Ohio. The transaction is the third expansion for the company since raising $850 million in February 2019. STACK Press Release: DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STACK INFRASTRUCTURE ...

October 16, 2019

STACK New Albany NAL01

KCP&L and Westar Energy are now Evergy

KANSAS CITY, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Local energy providers, Westar Energy and KCP&L are now serving customers as Evergy, the name of the holding company established when the companies merged last year. “This is an exciting time for our company,” Terry Bassham, president and chief executive ...

October 07, 2019

Kansas City

Databank acquired Lightbound and enters Indianapolis

DataBank has closed its acquisition of Indianapolis-based colocation, Internet, voice, network and cloud services provider, LightBound. The transaction adds of two facilities with over 56,000 gross square feet of colocation space and 9.5MW of installed UPS. LightBound’s data centers are locat...

October 01, 2019

Databank Indianapolis IND1

NYI expands to Chicago

New York Internet (NYI) is expanding to Chicago through a data center acquisition. NYI has acquired the data center business at 800 Jorie Boulevard in Oak Brook Illinois. The facility was previously operated by Navisite. More info in the press release below. NYI Press ReleaseNew York, NY – Sep...

September 12, 2019

NYI Chicago (Oak Brook)

Google considers building a Kansas City data center in Northland

Google has tentative plans for a $600 million data center in the Northland. The initiative's code name is "Project Shale." The project was announced at a Port Authority's (Port KC) board meeting on July 22nd, where the board approved a resolution authorizing Port KC to issue bonds for the...

July 23, 2019

Google: Kansas City

STACK Infrastructure Will Expand Chicago Facility

STACK Infrastructure, a Denver based data center provider, announced that it is expanding its Elk Grove facility. The expansion will offer 20 megawatts of additional critical capacity, bringing the total capacity to 33 megawatts. “Chicago is one of a number of important and growing markets for...

June 21, 2019

STACK Chicago CHI01

Indiana Signs New Tax Exemption Law to Spur Data Center Construction

On June 27nd 2019 Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed into law the Indiana Data Center Sales Tax Exemption as an incentive to lure more data center construction to the state. The new legislation pushed by Digital Crossroads and other data centers in Indiana. The Data Center Gross Retail and U...

May 30, 2019

Indiana

Facebook Adding a Fifth Facility in Altoona

Facebook is building a fifth data center on their campus in Altoona Iowa. The company expect to invest $400 million to build a 1 million sqft H-shapped data center. Altoona City Council approved a deal that would make Facebook exempt from paying property taxes on the new building for 20 yea...

May 07, 2019

Facebook Altoona Iowa

NewCloud Networks Expands at H5 in Cleveland

H5 has announced a customer expansion at its Cleveland Data Center. NewCloud Networks, a Denver based cloud services provider, has chosen the H5 facility to expand its Cleveland presence. The building, previously known as the Cleveland Technology Center, has changed hands a few times ov...

March 29, 2019

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

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