Sep 12, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
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 offer densities up to 200kW per rack, utilizing hybrid air and liquid cooling systems (including direct-to-chip and rear-door heat exchangers as well as hot/cold aisle containment). It will achieve a PUE of 1.19 and feature a closed-loop, waterless cooling system.
"Training, inferencing, financial services, and medical research, among other industries, are accelerating faster than the infrastructure designed to support them," said Greenberg. "We've designed – and will build – a city center AI factory for the future. The power density per square foot of building area in HydraVault, combined with the most advanced components demanded by the next generations of chip technology, makes HydraVault the definitive next-generation data center."