The construction of CloudHQ new data center campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois, has officially begun. This is after the developer CloudHQ and partner Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of the works.
The US$ 2.5bn project will be developed on a 1.5 million square foot (140,000 sqm) site that was previously owned by United Airlines. After decades in the location, the American airline started to leave in 2007 moving their workers to downtown Chicago. However, the location continued to serve as the hub for United’s minor training programs and IT operations.
Late in 2021, CloudHQ purchased the property in Chicago’s Elk Grove neighborhood.
The idea behind the purchase of United Airlines’ former base
CloudHQ’s plan was to raze most of the historic United Airlines building and erect three data centre structures.
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Each of the buildings will measure around 560,000 square feet (52,000 square meters). Additionally, each of the centers will require more than 80MW of power. ComEd estimates that the project’s first building will be finished in 2024. The completion of the other two buildings depends on demand during the next three to five years.
ComEd, an Exelon Corporation subsidiary based in Chicago, will build a new onsite substation and extend high voltage lines. Moreover, the company will make new technology investments to support CloudHQ’s growth. According to ComEd, CloudHQ new data center campus in Mount Prospect is the eighth brand-new data center project to have begun in the company’s service area in northern Illinois in the last year.
About the developer of the CloudHQ new data center campus in Mount Prospect
CloudHQ was launched in 2017 with a focus on the Northern Virginia market. However, in recent years, the company has gone global. It now has data center development projects in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, and Brazil.
CloudHQ was founded by Hossein Fateh, one of the industry’s master builders. Fateh built more than 260 megawatts of data center capacity for many of the leading players in the Internet sector. This he did in the capacity of the co-founder and CEO of DuPont Fabros Technology.
