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Read Canadian Developer Proposes 25-acre Data Center in Fergus, Ontario
Canadian developer Spur Innovation is planning a 50–75MW data center on a 25-acre site in Fergus, Ontario.According to an AI-generated factsheet attached to a report by the Wellington Advertiser, t...

Canadian Developer Proposes 25-acre Data Center in Fergus, Ontario

July 04, 2026 Ontario

Canadian developer Spur Innovation is planning a 50–75MW data center on a 25-acre site in Fergus, Ontario.According to an AI-generated factsheet attached to a report by the Wellington Advertiser, the proposal also includes a vertical farm and greenhouse complex at 865 Gartshore Street. The data...

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Read Closed Chicago-area incinerator Being Explored for Data Center Development
A shuttered incinerator in Robbins, near Chicago, is attracting interest from multiple data center developers. According to NBC and the Chicago Tribune, at least five potential buyers have approach...

Closed Chicago-area incinerator Being Explored for Data Center Development

June 26, 2026 Chicago

A shuttered incinerator in Robbins, near Chicago, is attracting interest from multiple data center developers. According to NBC and the Chicago Tribune, at least five potential buyers have approached owner Paul Duggan this year about acquiring the 16-acre Robbins Resource Recovery Center site at...

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Read Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois
Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

Developer Pulls Proposed Data Center Project in Pekin, Illinois

May 13, 2026 Illinois

Developer Western Hospitality Partners (WHP) has officially withdrawn its proposal to develop a data center in Pekin, Illinois, roughly two months after Mayor Mary Burress announced publicly that the city would not proceed with the project. “This letter shall serve as purchaser’s notice to...

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Read Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton
Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton

Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton

February 21, 2026 Ontario

A new data center could be coming to Ontario, Canada. Bob Bailey, a member of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, said on Thursday that a data center could be coming to the southern border city of Sarnia.Bailey suggested the proposed data center would deliver at least 100MW of capacity, noting that...

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Read Related Digital’s Michigan Facility to be Part of OpenAI's Stargate
Related Digital’s Michigan Facility to be Part of OpenAI's Stargate

Related Digital’s Michigan Facility to be Part of OpenAI's Stargate

October 30, 2025 Related Digital

OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital this week announced plans to develop a data center campus with more than a gigawatt of capacity in Saline Township. It will be part of Stargate, OpenAI's sprawling project to invest $500bn in digital infrastructure over the next four years to support the firm's...

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Read Related Digital Breaks Ground on $1.2bn Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Related Digital Breaks Ground on $1.2bn Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Related Digital Breaks Ground on $1.2bn Data Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming

October 11, 2025 Related Digital

Related Digital has broken ground on a $1.2 billion data center campus in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which will host AI infrastructure for CoreWeave. The 115-acre campus will be located on land on Cheyenne Business Parkway, and could eventually offer up to 302MW of capacity. As anchor tenant, CoreWeave...

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Read New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center
New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center

New Firm Announces Plans for 20MW Liquid-Cooled Data Center

September 12, 2025 Chicago

A new liquid-cooled data center is being developed in downtown Chicago, Illinois by HydraVault, a new data center developer. The developer says the facility will be “designed from the ground up” for AI and financial systems.The 20MW two-story facility, located at 2538 South Wabash Avenue, will...

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Read Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming
Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming

Crusoe Plans 1.8GW Facility in Wyoming

July 25, 2025 Wyoming

Crusoe this week announced a strategic partnership with Tallgrass to develop a 1.8GW AI data center campus located in southeast Wyoming. Designed to scale up to 10GW, the campus will integrate multiple energy sources fueled by natural gas and future renewable energy developments in the...

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

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

July 18, 2025 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...

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Read MISO approves regional transmission plan
 MISO approves regional transmission plan

MISO approves regional transmission plan

December 17, 2024 Illinois

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 thing...

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Read Prologis sells Chicago warehouse to HMC Capital
Prologis sells Chicago warehouse to HMC Capital

Prologis sells Chicago warehouse to HMC Capital

December 12, 2024 Chicago

Prologis has sold a data center development in Chicago, Illinois to HMC Capital. The industrial real estate giant said the warehouse is held in the US Logistics Fund, a Prologis co-investment vehicle focused on premier logistics real estate, including higher and better-use conversions.HMC Capital...

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Read Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley
Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley

Colovore to expand footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley

November 20, 2024 Chicago

Colovore is to expand its footprint of liquid-cooled colocation data centers beyond Silicon Valley and into Reno and Chicago. The company this week announced its second facility in Santa Clara, California, will open next month, and confirmed the locations of its next two sites.“We are staying...

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

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

June 28, 2024 Illinois

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...

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Read NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer
NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

NCSA expands Radiant Supercomputer

May 09, 2024 Illinois

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...

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Read Meta unveils new Illinois data center
Meta unveils new Illinois data center

Meta unveils new Illinois data center

November 30, 2023 Illinois

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 in...

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Read A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale
A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

A data facility near Detroit in Michigan up for sale

September 14, 2023 Detroit

A data center outside of Detroit, Michigan, is available for purchase. Lee & Associates, a real estate agency, has listed 21420 Melrose in Southfield, Oakland County, as available. The 1986-built, 15,956-square-foot property is available for $1.34m. “This building is extremely well maintained...

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Read The site plan for Metro Edge Development Partners' Chicago data center approved
The site plan for Metro Edge Development Partners' Chicago data center approved

The site plan for Metro Edge Development Partners' Chicago data center approved

June 29, 2023 Chicago

The Chicago, Illinois data center of commercial real estate finance firm Metro Edge Development Partners has been granted site approval. The corporation received site plan approval for its IMD1 data center from the Chicago Department of Planning and Development this month. IMD1 will be a...

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Read Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility
Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

Bidding in Illinois for an unoccupied HSBC/CapitalOne facility

June 02, 2023 Illinois

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. Volo...

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Read Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility
Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

Edged Energy begins work on Chicago facility

May 25, 2023 Chicago

Edged Energy has announced that work has commenced on its new facility in the Aurora area of west Chicago, Illinois.Together, with Seefried Industrial Properties, Inc., the company broke ground on the new 65-acre, multi-building data center campus, its first in Illinois, and nearby CyrusOne...

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Read JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development
JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

JLL Seeking Buyers For Property in Chicago Billed as Potential 50MW Data Center Development

December 15, 2022 Chicago

JLL is looking to sell a plot of land outside Chicago, Illinois. The land is being touted for data center development. JLL’s Regional Director, Sean Reynolds, posted on LinkedIn about the land. He said: “Looking for a Chicago area data center development site with quick access to 50 megawatts?”...

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