Midwest US Data Center News

Basin Electric seeks state approval for power plant expansion to accommodate burgeoning data center industry

Basin Electric has reportedly reached out for state approval for a power plant expansion in McKenzie County to accommodate the growing power requirements of the data center industry. The state Public Service Commission (PCS) received the company's expansion request back in October, which would...

December 19, 2022

North Dakota

Applied Digital Breaks Ground on New 5MW Facility in North Dakota

Applied Digital Corporation has announced that it is developing a 5MW data center in North Dakota. The facility will be designed to host Graphics Processing Units GPUs for non-cryptocurrency use cases. Applied Digital’s new data center will be located next to its existing 100MW hosting faci...

December 16, 2022

North Dakota

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

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 megawa...

December 15, 2022

Chicago

Bedrock and Raeden Partner Up For Small Carrier Hotel in Detroit

Real estate company Bedrock has announced its plan for a new carrier hotel data center in Detroit, Michigan. The company said it is partnering with Raeden, a digital infrastructure platform provider, to launch the independent carrier hotel in the city. The new carrier hotel will be located on ...

November 18, 2022

Detroit

Digital Realty Develops New Substation For its Chicago Campus

Digital Realty has partnered with local utility firm ComEd to open a new power substation at the former’s Franklin Park data center campus in Chicago. The substation was developed to support the future growth of the facility. The four-acre substation currently sits within Digital Realty’s d...

November 10, 2022

Digital Chicago Franklin Park Campus on Grand Ave - Digital Realty

Metro Edge Development Partners To Develop 21MW Facility in Chicago

Metro Edge Development Partners has announced its plans to develop a new data center in Chicago, Illinois. The real estate investment firm has already secured a 75-year lease on a 1.97-acre land in the Illinois Medical District (IMD). In addition, the company has the exclusive rights to dev...

October 03, 2022

Chicago

Xcel property in Becker, Minnesota to house big data center project?

A $1 billion data center project could be on the way to Becker, Minnesota, as Xcel Energy Inc. announces plans to sell 348 acres of land at its Sherco location to an unknown data center company. This company is currently going by the name Elk River Technologies and was reportedly incorporated ...

September 15, 2022

Minnesota

Involta Expands its Independence, Ohio Facility

Involta has announced the expansion of its data center in Independent, Ohio. The data center company added 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of space to the facility. It also added 1MW of power to the data center. The facility is located at 7300 E Pleasant Valley Road. The expansion ...

August 29, 2022

Ark: Independence

Bitzero announces intention to purchase old North Dakota missile site for data center

After announcing plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years back in June, Bitzero has announced plans to redevelop a northeastern North Dakota anti-ballistic missile site into a data center. The $6 billion Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Comple...

August 03, 2022

North Dakota

TAAL & Lake Parime to deploy cryptomine at nuclear station

TAAL and Lake Parime have announced their intention to deploy a new cryptomine facility by an unidentified nuclear power station in Ohio, following the signing of a hosting agreement between the two. Through the deal, 3,000 TAAL-owned S19J Pro bitcoin mining units, with a capacity of 10MW, wil...

July 15, 2022

Ohio

Netrality Expands Its St. Louis Data Center

Netrality Data Centers has completed the expansion of its St Louis data center in Missouri. The facility is located at 210 North Tucker. Netrality added two new data halls with 1.2MW capacity across 1,077 square meters (11,600 square feet) of space. Netrality DC’s Chief Revenue Officer, A...

June 23, 2022

210 N Tucker (Netrality) St Louis Carrier Hotel

Mapletree Industrial Trust Announces Sale of Michigan Data Center

Mapletree Industrial Trust (MIT) has announced the sale of its data center located at 19675 West Ten Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan, to its tenant. The data center sits on 121,100 square feet (11,250 square meters) of land. In addition, the four-story facility has up to 52,940 square feet ...

June 13, 2022

Mapletree: 19675 W Ten Mile

Bitzero & investor Kevin O’Leary make big company announcements

Bitcoin mining company Bitzero, reportedly a "100% green company," recently made a number of announcements related to its expansion and headquarters location. Plans to build 200 megawatts of data centers in North Dakota over the next two to three years were announced, and the state was also ch...

June 06, 2022

North Dakota

Lincoln Property Company & Harrison Street Form JV To Develop 144MW Campus

Investment and real estate firms Harrison Street and Lincoln Property Company plan to develop an industrial campus and data center in New Albany, Ohio. Both companies have formed a joint venture for this purpose. The JV has purchased a 190-acre site to develop a multipurpose technology and dis...

May 19, 2022

Ohio

H5 To Expand Its Cleveland Data Center

H5 is looking to expand its Cleveland facility in Ohio. The data center company filed with the Cleveland planning commission to expand its data center located at 1625 Rockwell Avenue. It also filed for a Façade change at the facility. Although the application didn’t reveal specifics of the ...

May 06, 2022

H5 Cleveland Technology Center (CTC)

Diode Ventures Planning a 220MW Facility in Kansas

Diode Ventures is looking to develop a massive data center campus in Kansas. The company filed a preliminary plan for a data center campus called Creek Technology Park. The campus will sit on an undeveloped 359 acres of land in the northeast of US Highway 169 and Interstate 435 in Missouri....

April 26, 2022

Kansas City

Meta Expanding Campus in New Albany, Ohio

Meta has announced that it is expanding its data center campus in New Albany, Ohio. The company announced the decision in a Facebook post earlier in the week. The company revealed to BizJournal that it would be adding two buildings totaling 92,900 square meters (1 million square feet) to th...

April 22, 2022

Meta: New Albany Ohio

Aligned Finishes Work at ORD-01 Data Center, Breaks Ground on ORD-2

Aligned has announced the completion of work on the first data center at its campus in Chicagoland. In addition, the company has also broken ground on a new data center at the campus. Aligned completed the first phase of its ORD-01 data center, which is located in Northlake, Illinois. The d...

April 20, 2022

Aligned Chicago ORD-01

SDN Communications Is Expanding Its Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

SDN Communications has announced that it is expanding its data center located at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The US broadband provider will add a 25,000 square foot (2,320 square meter) pod to the existing structure. This will increase the total space to 50,000 square feet. According to SDN, th...

March 25, 2022

South Dakota

BitNile to expand the capacity of its Michigan data center

BitNile has announced plans to expand its data center in Michigan to reach a capacity of 300 MW. This decision to expand capacity comes as the company seeks to accommodate Bitcoin mining operations at the facility, enabling the operation of approximately 90,000 Bitcoin miners. This, according ...

March 09, 2022

Michigan

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