Illinois Times

Data center project moves forward

Opponents of a proposed $500 million data center in southwestern Sangamon County went away disappointed and angry but unbowed, while officials from a Dallas-based company left smiling, after a pair of ...

Moratorium on new data centers voted down in Sangamon County

A controversial $500 million data center project can move forward after Sangamon County's zoning board rejected a moratorium ...

Constellation Energy Deepens Data Center Ties With Calpine Deal And Nuclear Upgrades

Constellation Energy (NasdaqGS:CEG) completed a US$26.6b acquisition of Calpine, expanding its generation footprint and customer reach. The company signed a long term 380 MW power supply agreement ...

Data centers spark debate across Chicagoland: 'It was like there was a helicopter on our roof'

Suburbs including Naperville, Aurora and Lisle are grappling with proposals to build data centers near neighborhoods. Residents cite noise, diesel emissions and rising electric bills as top concerns.
Seeking Alpha

Calpine and CyrusOne Announce Phase 2 of Powered Land Agreement to Support Hyperscale Data Center at Thad Hill Energy Center in Texas

HOUSTON and DALLAS, Nov. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Houston-based Calpine Corporation today announced the second phase of its 400-megawatt (MW) power supply agreement with Dallas-based CyrusOne, a ...
Morningstar

CyrusOne and Eolian Partner to Enable Rapid Deployment of 200 Megawatt Data Center Campus in Fort Worth, Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CyrusOne and Eolian, L.P. ("Eolian") today announced a collaborative infrastructure deployment for a new data center campus, DFW7, currently under ...
Crain's Chicago Business

CME's 10-hour data center outage is testing the ambitions of KKR, GIP

Data center operators are fixated on the “five nines” — an expectation that they’ll keep the infrastructure behind financial markets, e-commerce and artificial intelligence running 99.999% of the time ...