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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA $40 million data center that’ll serve the Chicago area has opened in northwestern Indiana.
National companies will store their data at the Digital Crossroads data center in Hammond, according to The Times of Northwest Indiana. The 105,000-square-foot center was designed to serve soaring demand for data storage, such as for streaming movie and music services.
The center, which employs about 17 workers, could grow into a larger project of up to $200 million, said Indianapolis attorney Tom Dakich, who is managing director of the development.
It was built at the old State Line Generating Plant, a former coal-fired power plant site along Lake Michigan that was closed in 2012 and had long been one of the Chicago area’s worst polluters.
The project has been praised by local leaders who hope it could draw more high-tech companies to the area.
Roughly half of the center has been leased for servers that’ll be connected to a fiber line to downtown Chicago, according to the newspaper. The building that will house those servers is cooled by Lake Michigan water.
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