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Recent Illinois data center news

• Jul 16, 2026

  Michelle Yin: America is Fighting About the Wrong End of the Wire

  Michelle Yin argues that policymakers should prioritize broadband adoption, devices, and workforce programs over only construction and data-center siting. - She says the Commerce Department restructured the $42.45 billion BEAD program to award grants on lowest cost alone, removing requirements for low-cost plans, digital adoption, and workforce development.

  • She cites research on the $9 billion Connect America Fund and says the NTIA is deciding how to use about $21 billion in projected savings, while construction on the main awards begins this summer.
  • The piece is an expert opinion/commentary, not a first-time corporate announcement; it discusses policy choices, broadband economics, and the AI infrastructure debate.
• Jul 14, 2026

  Climate Change Solutions - July 14, 2026

  The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) has published a climate and energy newsletter highlighting recent articles, congressional actions, and upcoming briefings.

  • Main announcement/action: EESI promotes an online briefing with the Natural Resources Defense Council on Thursday, July 16 at noon about tracking and reducing nitrogen fertilizer use, associated emissions, and lowering costs for farmers.
  • Background and other details: The newsletter also references a House vote on the SECURE Grid Act (H.R. 7257), a future briefing on severe drought on July 24, and archived materials on extreme heat, grid resilience, and data centers.
  • The issue is presented as a newsletter / event roundup rather than a standalone policy announcement by a company, and it includes EESI contact information at the end.
• Jul 13, 2026

  TA Realty buys data center-zoned land in Sterling, Virginia

  TA Realty’s data center arm has acquired a 9.82-acre, data center-zoned land parcel at 45564 Thayer Road, Sterling, Virginia for $60 million.

  • The off-market deal closed on June 8; TA paid $6.1 million per acre for the site, which has approval for a two-story data center building.
  • JK Land Holdings sold the property after TA Digital Group made an unsolicited offer; KUHN said the price reflects market value for fully entitled, site plan-approved data center ground in the area. TA Realty’s data center platform reportedly includes more than 12 projects and nearly 3GW of power capacity.
• Jul 13, 2026

  Tract looks to develop 900MW data center park outside Richmond, Virginia

  Tract has announced a pre-application filing to develop the Tuckahoe Technology Park, an 872-acre master-planned data center campus in Goochland County, Virginia.

  • Filed a pre-application for a conditional use permit (CUP) through VALCO Goochland, LLC for land in the county’s technology overlay district (TOD West).
  • The proposed campus would include 12 buildings, reach 900MW at full build-out, and require more than $3 billion in investment; a community meeting is scheduled for July 23.
  • Tract says it aims to make sites zoned, powered, and shovel-ready for other developers, and county officials said negotiations have been ongoing since late 2023.
• Jul 11, 2026

  United States $87 Billion Derivatives Exchange CME Group to Launch New Interest Rate Trading Function (Treasury Link) to Improve United States Treasury Spread Trading Between Cash & Futures Market

  CME Group has announced a new Treasury Link functionality to connect U.S. Treasury futures and cash Treasuries for spread trading.

  • Treasury Link will enable centralized spread trading between CBOT Treasury futures and BrokerTec cash Treasuries on CME Globex; launch is expected in Q4 2026, pending regulatory review.
  • The service builds on FX Link technology and follows the launch of BrokerTec Chicago; CME says the platform reached a $1.22 billion single-day volume record on April 8, 2026 and is co-located in the Aurora data center next to CME Group’s U.S. Treasury futures and options market.
• Jul 10, 2026

  Lightpath to provide fiber infrastructure for two new hyperscale data center campuses

  Lightpath has announced it will provide fiber infrastructure and multi-terabit capacity to support two hyperscale data center campuses under construction in the United States.

  • The two campuses are planned to exceed one gigawatt each and are located in Saline, Michigan and Port Washington, Wisconsin.
  • The Saline build is scheduled for delivery by the end of this year, while Port Washington is expected in Q2 2027; both are being delivered with an anchor hyperscale customer that was not named.
  • Chris Morley said Lightpath is partnering with hyperscalers to build new fiber infrastructure for AI-driven demand; Tim Haverkate said the company will deliver route-diverse, multi-terabit capacity across new construction, existing network assets, and partner fiber.
• Jul 9, 2026

  Prologis files to build 99MW data center in San Jose, California

  Prologis has announced plans to develop a new data center at 5977 Silver Creek Valley Road in San Jose, California.

  • The proposed project is a three-story, 516,000 sq ft facility on about 15 acres, with 99MW of capacity and an on-site substation.
  • Prologis said construction would take around two years and that it will cover the costs of transmission upgrades; the site was previously acquired by Duke Realty for $40.2 million in 2021 and later transferred to Prologis through the $23 billion Duke Realty acquisition in 2022.
• Jul 8, 2026

  Plans for 29MW data center in Bonner, Montana, dropped

  Krambu’s proposed data center in Bonner, Missoula County, Montana has been withdrawn after the building owner pulled support, so the project will not move forward.

  • Mike Heisey of Bonner Property Development, LLC said he withdrew his signature from the Krambu special exception application after hearing public concerns, and that the company will not be moving forward with the proposed data center at 9314 Bonner Mill Road.
  • The project had been expected to reach 29MW at full build-out, with an initial 7MW phase, and it was being considered while Missoula County discussed a possible moratorium and updated zoning rules for data centers; a Change.org petition against the site had gathered more than 48,800 signatures.
  • Krambu says it was founded in 2017 and offers Nvidia-based GPU hardware, Supermicro servers, colocation, cloud services, and up to 250kW rack densities via direct-to-chip liquid cooling.
  • The company also lists other projects, including a 10MW site in Spokane, Washington, a 6MW site in Oregon, a 30MW greenfield project in Pennsylvania with Paradox Data, and future pipeline projects in Montana, Ohio, Illinois, and Alberta, Canada.
• Jul 8, 2026

  Edged eyes 725MW data center campus in Pennsylvania

  Edged has announced updated plans for Project Atlas, a data center campus in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, scaling back from six buildings to three. - The revised proposal covers three buildings totaling about 1.5 million sq ft and 725MW, down from the original plan for six data centers and more than 5.1 million sq ft.

  • Edged says it will fund all power and infrastructure upgrades for the campus and plans to dedicate 160 acres to the Jordan Creek Greenway; the site spans about 410 acres at 2493 N. Cedar Crest Boulevard.
  • The article says up to $9 billion was originally set to be invested according to city documents, and notes the township planning commission is expected to discuss the project this week.
• Jul 8, 2026

  Patented: Topgolf’s Newest Award and More Inventions Across North Texas

  Dallas Invents has reported a weekly roundup of patents granted in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, highlighting Topgolf’s new patent among other local assignees and inventors.

  • Topgolf International, Inc. received U.S. Patent No. 12649095 for a Galton configuration in golf ball receiving apparatus and systems that uses RFID tags and an antenna reader to identify golf balls while avoiding jams.
  • The article is a news roundup/commentary on patent activity, not a first-time corporate announcement; it also lists other grants to entities including Texas Instruments, Toyota, Samsung, Bank of America, Citibank, USAA, Halliburton, and Akamai.