For Ric Offerman, Minooka’s mayor, these are inescapable environmental tradeoffs to secure a multibillion-dollar investment from Equinix, Inc., a Redwood City, California-based company that operates ...

LEONARDO PINI Medill Illinois News Bureau with Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Illinois has been at the forefront of the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois and the suburbs have been at the forefront of the national data center boom, but state lawmakers are working to mitigate the impact these centers have on climate and energy ...

Data centers are not always welcomed with open arms in rural communities. But some local leaders in Illinois area eager to overcome the facilities’ environmental obstacles in hopes of ...

Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is coming and it is coming fast. It is poised to transform industries, automate complex tasks, analyze data faster, ...

T5 has an existing data center in Elk Grove. The first T5@Chicago facility, at 200 Innovation Drive, was commissioned by ...

Two large data center campuses are being proposed outside Chicago, Illinois. One project would see 14 buildings totaling 1.8GW developed in the Kendall County city of Yorkville. For the other project, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois has been at the forefront of the data center boom, but state lawmakers are working to gauge and mitigate the impact these centers have on climate and energy consumption.