Server Farm Realty Unveils Its State-Of-The-Art Chicago Data Center Facility
The data center is designed to serve as key interconnection point to global network providers.
Server Farm Realty LLC (SFR) has unveiled the company’s newest, state-of-the-art data center facility in Chicago. The exclusive, invitation only ribbon cutting ceremony featured a number of distinguished guests including Peerless Network’s CEO, John Barnicle and Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
840 South Canal is a 450,000-sq-ft facility that housed the former General Electric Co. (GE) factory and served as Northern Trust’s data center and operations hub. Server Farm Realty has invested over $220M to redevelop and transform the building into a Tier III data center. The enhanced facility now features a concurrently maintainable design with 100% availability and delivers approximately 20 MW of power to over 138,000 SF of raised floor data center suites. The eight-story building also maintains 4 MW of critical power over five data center floors and features a power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.4 or better — one of the lowest in Chicago.