Midwest US Data Center News

Iron Mountain Building a $75 Million Facility in Des Plaines, IL

The Daily Herald reports that a $75 million data center will replace the former Des Plaines location of men's suit manufacturer Hart Schaffner Marx, which relocated within the city this year. The city council unanimously recommended a property tax break Monday to lure Iron Mountain Data Cente...

December 05, 2018

Iron Mountain Chicago

DCN completes Tier III Great Plains Data Center expansion

DCN (Dakota Carrier Network) today announced it has completed a 13,280 square-foot data center expansion at its Great Plains Data Center in Fargo. The addition more than doubles DCN’s Fargo footprint and increases its server floor space by six times. Business leaders and representatives from S...

November 30, 2018

DCN: Fargo Great Plains

Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT II Completes a $23.2 Million Acquisition of Canton Data Center

On October 3, 2018, the Company acquired the Canton Data Center for approximately $9.4 million excluding acquisition fees and costs. The facility is a colocation data center delivering 1.5 Megawatts of existing capacity expandable to 3.0 Megawatts. Located in Canton, Ohio, the data center is situ...

November 02, 2018

Ark: Canton

Netrality Properties Extends Amazon Web Services Direct Connect in Kansas City

Netrality Properties, owner and operator of network neutral interconnection and data center properties, announced today the immediate availability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect service in its Kansas City facility — 1102 Grand. Netrality can now offer customers secure and private con...

October 22, 2018

1102 Grand St (Netrality) Kansas City Carrier Hotel

IPI Partners buys Elk Grove Village suburban data center for $119M

IPI Partners bought an Elk Grove Village data center for $118.9 million, signaling continued investor interest in the growing industrial sector. T5 Data Centers sold the 208,000-square-foot, 10-megawatt facility at 1441 Touhy Avenue. It was built by Forsythe Technology, opened in 2015 and sold...

September 04, 2018

STACK Chicago CHI01

Close to Chicago-Indiana NAP’s ‘Digital Crossroads’ development will first comprise a 105,000 square foot data center

Workers have broken ground on a $40 million data center in the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the 77-acre site of a former coal plant on Lake Michigan. Led by developers Tom Dakich and Peter Feldman from Indiana NAP, the Digital Crossroads project will comprise a 105,000 square foot (9,755 sq m)...

August 25, 2018

Digital Crossroad (Indiana NAP)

Compass Datacenters To Build Second Data Center Facility For American Electric Power (PR)

DALLAS /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has completed an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) to build a second data center facility in southwestern Ohio that expands the company's IT infrastructure and supports its resiliency strategy for IT operations. Compass built AEP's primary ...

July 10, 2018

Compass New Albany

Immedion acquires Indiana-based Data Cave

Greenville, SC - Immedion LLC, a provider of IT infrastructure solutions including Cloud, colocation and managed IT services, today announced its further expansion in the Midwest region through the acquisition of a data center in Columbus, Indiana. Formerly operated by Data Cave, this 86,400-...

June 04, 2018

DartPoints: Columbus, IN

H5 Data Centers Acquires Cleveland Data Center

Denver, CO - H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data center provider, today announced it has acquired the Cleveland Technology Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Located at 1625 Rockwell Avenue, the acquisition adds to H5's growing data center portfolio of nearly 1.5 millio...

January 26, 2017

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Digital Realty Expanding Adjacent to 350 E Cermak

This is a low risk development. Anchor or not, demand for access to Cermak is high. Digital Reality will own the conduit fiber between the buildings and should make access to tenants in 350 pretty easy. Digital Realty Trust made a big, highly anticipated announcement this morning. They ...

October 20, 2016

Digital Realty: ORD10

Cologix Building New Datacenter in Columbus

Cologix Building $130M Data Center in Growing Columbus Metro Data center provider Cologix has kicked off construction of a $130 million data center in Columbus, Ohio, which will be the third facility on the company’s campus in the Midwestern business hub. The company expects to launch the f...

September 07, 2016

Cologix Columbus COL1, COL2

Amazon's Massive $1.1bn Ohio Data Center Project Swaps Townships

There has been heated competition in Ohio to land a $1.1 billion Amazon Web Services Data Center project. That project was recently reported to be split across three townships: Hilliard, Dublin and Orange Township. Columbus Business first reports that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has withdrawn an ...

June 14, 2015

Ohio

Involta acquires Youngstown-based Data Recovery Services

Involta has agreed to acquire a Youngstown-based data center company called Data Recovery Services LLC. The deal will roughly double the size of Involta’s employee base. The combined company will have nearly 200 employees, according to a news release from Involta, an Iowa-based company that a...

June 04, 2015

Ark: Youngstown

Officials in Ohio Approve Amazon Data Center Development Plans

Amazon’s planned data center project in Dublin, Ohio, is a step closer, with a panel of city officials approving development plans for a data-processing center on a 70-acre plot of land. The next step will be building permits. The project is expected to cost $1.1 billion and create 120 jobs w...

February 27, 2015

Ohio

Amazon secures land in Dublin and Hilliard for new data centers

Amazon Web Services has tied up two of the three sites for its planned data center network in Central Ohio. Public records show Amazon Web Services' Vadata Inc. affiliate bought 58.2 acres at Hayden Run Road between Britton Parkway and Interstate 270 in Hilliard from Trueman LP for $8.3 millio...

February 27, 2015

AWS US East (Ohio)

IBM Opens Advanced Analytics Center in Columbus, Ohio (PR)

COLUMBUS, OHIO - IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it will establish a new analytics center in Columbus, Ohio, dedicated to advancing research, development, client services and skills training in the areas of analytics, big data and cognitive computing. The move aims to create 500 new analytics...

November 12, 2012

Kyndryl Columbus

Wells Building in Milwaukee sold

Madison-based Ascendant Holdings LLC bought the 15-story Wells Building in downtown Milwaukee from Zilber Property Group and is planning to begin renovation work on the building in the coming months. The Wells building is on the northwest corner of East Wisconsin Avenue and North Milwaukee Str...

October 04, 2011

1547: Wells Building

Involta partners with Essentia Health at former Duluth hardware store

The Central Hillside building that long housed Daugherty Hardware will be a data center for Essentia Health Systems by the end of the year if plans announced today come to fruition. Originally published in the Duluth News Tribune The Central Hillside building that long housed Daugherty Hardwar...

June 24, 2011

Ark: Duluth 421 N 6th

Nationwide Data Center Planned for Ohio

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. is making plans to build a $96 million data center in New Albany, Ohio, according to local media reports. The insurance company is planning a data center facility of at least 120,000 square feet on 45 acres recently designated as New Albany's Research and Inform...

October 20, 2008

STACK New Albany NAL01

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