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SunRocket Capital Funds $15m Solar and Storage Project in Illinois

US-based private lender SunRocket Capital has closed a $15 million financing package for a solar with battery storage project designed to provide power to the data center sector in Illinois.“SunRocket Capital is proud to facilitate the growth of renewable energy infrastructure that powers the ...

July 18, 2025

Illinois

MISO approves regional transmission plan

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s (MISO) board has approved a $21.9 billion long-range transmission plan. The new transmission lines will span 1,800 miles and include some that will connect directly to PJM Interconnection’s 765kV system in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. “The main t...

December 17, 2024

Illinois

Google Cloud to provide private cloud region and colocation facility for CME Group

Google Cloud is providing a private cloud region for financial services company CME Group in Aurora, Illinois which will host a specialized platform to support global trading of CME's futures and options markets and will provide traders with access to a cloud-based low-latency network and high...

June 28, 2024

Illinois

NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s (UIUC) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) this week announced it has installed additional graphics processing units (GPUs) to its private cloud Radiant system. The University acquired the GPU with a funding commitment of $50 m...

May 09, 2024

Illinois

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Meta has finally launched its 2.3 million square feet DeKalb, Illinois, data center three years after construction began. According to the company, this construction took over $1 billion to complete and required 1,200 skilled workers. This site is expected to provide over 200 operational jobs ...

November 30, 2023

Illinois

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

New state data center for Springfield's east side

The State of Illinois has announced the purchase of 9.4 acres of land at the Dirksen Business Park in the 2900 block of Dotmar Drive, which will be home to a new data center. The $80.5 million facility will be run by the state Department of Innovation and Technology and will reportedly enable ...

February 08, 2022

Illinois

Elk Grove Data Center rezone to go forward

Data center plans are moving ahead in Elk Grove Village as officials have announced their expectation to close on the sale of four parcels totaling 17.5 acres later this month. The sale will be made to Prime Data Centers Corp for $21.3 million. This follows planning commissioners voting unanim...

December 09, 2021

Illinois

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

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