Data Centers in Chicago

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Chicago currently has 22 confirmed data center or colocation companies with a presence here.

Companies here

• 11:11 Systems PENDING REVIEW
• 1547 Critical Systems Realty CHIL2 / 725 South Wells CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  This nine-story, roughly 66,000-square-foot South Loop building offers 8.4 MW of power and sits directly on Chicago's fiber-dense "F Ring," with strong connectivity to the massive 350 Cermak Road facility.
• 1547 Critical Systems Realty CHIL1 / Midway Technology Center (Schulze Baking Company building) PENDING REVIEW
  This 230,000-square-foot facility occupies the historic Schulze Baking Company building and benefits from Midway Technology Center tax incentives, and was planned as a roughly 24 MW server farm redevelopment.
• 365 Data Centers Chicago CH6 CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  The CH6 facility sits at 427 South La Salle Street in the heart of Chicago's financial district.
• Centersquare ORD1 (350 East Cermak Road) TIER III PENDING REVIEW
  The building was originally constructed in 1912 for R.R. Donnelley & Sons printing (later used to print the Sears Catalog until 1993) before being converted into a landmark-protected carrier hotel in 1999.
• Colocation America 350 E Cermak Rd (ChicagoDC1) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  350 E Cermak is one of the largest data centers in the world at over 1 million square feet, originally built in 1912 as the headquarters for RR Donnelley printing.
• Colocation America 600 S Federal St (ChicagoDC2) PENDING REVIEW
  At 160,000 square feet, this is described by the company as its second Chicago facility, smaller than the Cermak building but fully equipped for colocation.
• ColoHouse 725 S Wells Street PENDING REVIEW
  This facility maintains N+1 redundancy and connects to ColoHouse's other Chicago site at 350 E. Cermak via more than 400 Gbit/sec of redundant capacity.
• ColoHouse 350 E. Cermak Road PENDING REVIEW
• CoreSite CH2 CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  CH2 is a purpose-built, four-story, 175,000-square-foot data center with 18 critical megawatts of capacity, completed in 2020 on a greenfield site CoreSite acquired in 2018.
• CoreSite CH1 CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  CH1 sits in a historic downtown Chicago telecom hub at 427 South LaSalle Street with dense network interconnection.
• Deft 350 E Cermak CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  The facility sits within 350 E. Cermak Road, a building certified for ISO 27001, ISO 9001, LEED, PCI DSS and multiple SOC standards, and hosting roughly 100 MW of utility power drawn from three underground substations.
• Digital Realty 330 E. Cermak (Digital Cermak project) PENDING REVIEW
  This next-generation facility under construction across the street from 350 E. Cermak is projected to generate over $6-10 million in annual real estate taxes once complete.
• Digital Realty ORD10 (350 East Cermak) CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  This carrier hotel, once billed as the world's largest data center around 2009, spans 1.1 million square feet with over 100 MW of utility power and is the Midwest's most interconnected multi-tenant facility with over 70 network providers.
• Equinix CH1 CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  CH1 occupies the historic 350 East Cermak Road building, one of the most carrier-dense data center addresses in the central United States.
• H5 Data Centers Chicago Data Center PENDING REVIEW
• Hivelocity ORD4 PENDING REVIEW
• Microsoft Azure North Central US - Chicago PENDING REVIEW
  The Chicago facility opened in 2009 at roughly 700,000 square feet and was one of the first Microsoft data centers to use standardized shipping-container server modules stacked on top of one another.
• Netrality Data Centers 717 South Wells CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  Per Netrality Data Centers's own site: Netrality's site frames the Chicago facility around leveraging the city's position as a telecommunications hub with high-capacity networks and proximity to financial markets.
• NTT Global Data Centers Chicago Campus (Itasca) CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  NTT operates three data centers totaling 200MW at its Chicago-area campus in Itasca.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure US Midwest (Chicago) - us-chicago-1 PENDING REVIEW
• Psychz Networks PENDING REVIEW
• QTS Data Centers Chicago 1 (2800 S. Ashland Ave) CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  This campus was converted from the former Chicago Sun-Times printing plant, which QTS acquired for $18 million in 2014 and redeveloped into a 475,000-square-foot data center.
• ServerHub PENDING REVIEW
• Steadfast 350 E Cermak Rd (Chi01/02) TIER III CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW
  The building housing this facility is one of the largest data center properties in the world, functioning as Chicago's primary carrier hotel with direct meet-me-room access to networks like Verizon, Zayo, and AT&T.
• Steadfast 725 S Wells St (Chi18) CARRIER-NEUTRAL PENDING REVIEW · (312) 248-1532
  This nine-story, roughly 60,000-square-foot, 5MW building was opened by Steadfast in 2010 and is owned by 1547 Critical Systems Realty alongside Harrison Street.
• TierPoint Chicago - Polk Data Center PENDING REVIEW
  Located in Chicago's South Loop business district, this facility has been described as the premier mission-critical data center and telecommunications facility in the Midwest.
• TierPoint Chicago - West Data Center PENDING REVIEW
• Volico Data Centers CHI1 PENDING REVIEW
  This building, 350 E. Cermak Road (the Lakeside Technology Center), is one of the largest data centers in the world at over 1.1 million square feet and is operated as a carrier hotel by Digital Realty, with Volico leasing colocation space on its 5th floor.

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