Midwest US Data Center News

ISI Communications has moved its Core Network into New Continuum's Chicago Facility

New Continuum has persuaded ISI Communications to move its core network node into its facility. This is no easy feat. Certainly the fact that United IX is in the building helped to make the decision easier. The New Continuum Press Release: ISI Communications is leveraging New Continuum’s e...

March 26, 2019

SBA Edge: 603 Discovery

Cavern Expanding KC Data Center by 40,000 SqFt

Cavern Technologies announced via Twitter that the company is building a 40,000 SqFt expansion at their Underground Kansas Facility. The data center, which is used by the Kansas City Chiefs, is one of the largest facilities in Kansas City. Cavern said the space will be available by June and it...

March 07, 2019

Lightedge: Lenexa (Cavern)

Microsoft and EDP Renewables Execute a Wind Energy Agreement in Ohio

HOUSTON, and REDMOND, Wash. — March 7, 2019 — EDP Renewables SA (EDPR), through its fully owned subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, and Microsoft Corp. have executed two 15-year power purchase agreements (PPA) totaling 125 megawatts (MW) that will bring the Timber Road IV Wind Farm t...

March 07, 2019

Ohio

Element Critical Enters Chicago Market Acquiring Two Data Centers in the Suburbs (PR)

Data Center and Colocation Provider Adds 195,000 Square Feet of Space with Plans to Invest $40 Million to Expand and Enhance Facilities Located in Wood Dale, IL CHICAGO – Element Critical, a leading provider of data center and IT infrastructure services driven by customer-centric, solutions ...

January 07, 2019

Element Critical CH2

South Loop data center sells for $27 million

A partnership between CIM Group, one of the more prominent real estate developers in Chicago, and a New Jersey-based data center operator bought a South Loop data center for $27 million. Anderson Pacific Group, a Chicago-based investor that specializes in telecom projects, started developing t...

January 02, 2019

725 S Wells - 1547 Critical Systems

Another data center in the works for Sarpy County

PAPILLION — Another company data center is in the works for Sarpy County in eastern Nebraska — a project that's raised questions about data center saturation. The identity of the company is being kept a secret until the land transaction on the west side of Papillion is ensured and utility agre...

December 31, 2018

Omaha

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

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