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Chicago Poised for Data Center Boom

CHICAGO—Many data centers remain in the planning stages and Mortenson's Davis expects the building boom won't occur until late in the year.

By Brian J. Rogal | Updated on February 24, 2014

CHICAGO—Fiber optic networks converge on the Chicago metropolitan area in the same way that highways, railroads and air routes do, and that means the city and its suburbs could reap huge benefits in the near future as the need for powerful data centers fed by fiber networks keeps growing.

“We’re seeing a good headwind behind this market as a whole,” Mortenson Construction’s Patrick Davis tells GlobeSt.com. The senior design phase manager, who focuses on the data center industry, says the increasing use of computerized medical records, streaming video, cloud computing and other factors has caused projections for “the demand curve for data centers to just go out of control.”

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