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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 Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta
Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

Equifax to Decommission Data Center outside Atlanta

September 12, 2025 Atlanta

The City of Alpharetta last week announced that Equifax was investing $25 million to expand its Alpharetta campus, located in Fulton County. The expansion includes the renovation of the third floor of the JV White 1 building, converting it from a data center into collaborative office space. “The...

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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 Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania
Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

Bitfarms and T5 to Develop Data Center in Pennsylvania

August 06, 2025 T5 Data Centers

Bitfarms, a cryptomining company pivoting to AI and HPC data centers, this week announced its partnership with T5 Data Centers to “advance HPC/AI development” at its Panther Creek campus in the state.The partnership will focus on pre-construction, design, planning, and development approval...

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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 T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus
T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus

T5 Data Centers acquires land outside Atlanta for a new data center campus

August 31, 2024 T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers this week announced plans to expand its Atlanta footprint with the development of a new data center campus in South Fulton County known as ATL IV. The company has already acquired land outside Atlanta, Georgia, a 91-acre site in Palmetto already zoned for data center use and...

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Read Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments
Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

Atlanta City Council members propose new bill to block data center developments

May 10, 2024 Atlanta

Atlanta City Councilmen Jason Dozier and Matt Westmoreland have introduced bills to block data center developments around certain areas of the Georgia city near transit stops and the Beltline. “Excited to introduce legislation alongside Matt Westmoreland to address the rapid growth of data...

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Read T5 to develop new data center campus in Illinois
T5 to develop new data center campus in Illinois

T5 to develop new data center campus in Illinois

May 04, 2024 T5 Data Centers

T5 Data Centers recently revealed its plans to develop a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois as it announced that the 160-acre site, 40 miles north of Chicago, will be used for “multiple data center buildings.” “The new Grayslake campus represents a major investment by T5 to meet the...

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Read OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO
OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

OpenAI president Greg Brockman quits as the company fires CEO

November 20, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI's co-founder and president, Greg Brockman, has quit the company after the board suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman last week. Brockman, who was initially made to step down as board chairman, has left the company. The board is yet to disclose the exact reason for firing Altman as the company...

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Read OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman fired from the company

November 19, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of the artificial intelligence startup as the board denounces confidence in his leadership. In a statement released by the company, the board noted that it “no longer has confidence in his ability to lead.” Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology...

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Read Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development
Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

Developers in San Jose, California, switch hotel plans for data center development

August 08, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Plans for an entertainment district development in San Jose, California, have been scrapped and replaced with data center plans, it has been announced. Back in 2018, developer Terra Ventures had initially pitched for development known as 'Shops @ Terra'; this would have been an entertainment...

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Read Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center
Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

Edged Energy begins work on Atlanta data center

July 04, 2023 Atlanta

Construction on Edge Energy's Atlanta, Georgia data center is underway, with the company commencing work on July 1st. Located at Tilford Yard, the company bought the 158 acre-site back in July 2021; 70 acres will be dedicated to data center development. In January 2023, it filed a building permit...

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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 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 North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers
North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

North San Jose Slated to Receive New Data Centers

May 12, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

This week, the San Jose City Council unanimously authorized plans for a sophisticated manufacturing complex and data centers in North San Jose. Denver-based STACK Infrastructure plans to destroy two industrial buildings on a nearly 10-acre parcel, including a former Olympus service center, and...

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Read NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach
NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

NCR Resume Additional Services After a Ransomware Breach

April 28, 2023 Atlanta

After a ransomware assault caused a data center outage that disrupted its Aloha cloud-based services and Counterpoint apps, NCR is making progress toward restoring services. For the subset of CMC customers who were impacted by the incident, online ordering has resumed and NCR's Command Center...

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Read Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations
Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

Silicon Valley Sees Surge in Data Center Construction as Tech Giants Expand Operations

April 18, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

Silicon Valley is experiencing a surge in the construction of data centers, according to a report by real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield. At the end of last year, 17 new data centers were either under construction or in development, with a total planned area of 4.7 million square...

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Read Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network
Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

Third Completely Diverse Dark Fiber Route Added to Bandwidth IG's San Francisco Bay Area network

April 06, 2023 San Francisco Bay Area

With the construction of its dark fiber network, Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is enhancing connection options for the San Francisco Bay Area's densely populated area of data centers. Critical fiber infrastructure is now available from Santa Clara in the San Francisco Bay Area to...

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Read A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard
A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

A new data center is planned for Tilford Yard

January 23, 2023 Atlanta

According to reports, a new data center is planned for Tilford Yard, on Atlanta’s Westside, under the project name Edged. This announcement comes following the filing of a building permit for a nearly 210,000-square-foot, two-level data center.Further to this, records show that Endeavour, the...

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