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Yorkville approves $149,600 engineering contract to help power data center · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Yorkville approves one hundred and forty nine dollars six hundred
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  Speaker 1: dollars engineering contract to help power data center. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Joey Weslow, This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by ever Litt. As the design
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  Speaker 1: on Yorkville's first data center takes another step forward, the
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  Speaker 1: city is laying the groundwork for the complicated process of
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  Speaker 1: hiring contractors needed to pull off the high powered engineering
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  Speaker 1: for these developments. A critical component of the already approved
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  Speaker 1: five hundred megawat two hundred and twenty eight acre Cyrus
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  Speaker 1: one data center with eight one story warehouses is the
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  Speaker 1: installation of a four hundred thousand square foot electrical substation.
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  Speaker 1: The City Council approved a one hundred and forty nine thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred dollars contract for electrical engineering consulting services with
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant and amp lundy LLC regarding the data center's medium
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  Speaker 1: and high voltage electrical components. The contract includes five hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixteen billable hours at two hundred and fifty one
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  Speaker 1: ers per hour. All costs associated with the contract will
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  Speaker 1: be passed through expenses to the developer and will not
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  Speaker 1: impact the city's general Fund. Christy Barksdale Noble, the city's
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  Speaker 1: Community Development director, said during the February twenty fourth City
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  Speaker 1: Council meeting timely engagement of a qualified consultant is essential
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  Speaker 1: to avoid delays of any plan reviews, testing, or commissioning.
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  Speaker 1: Developers currently project the electrical substation to be completed later
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  Speaker 1: this year and the data center campus energization complete in
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  Speaker 1: early twenty twenty seven. Full construction of all the warehouses
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  Speaker 1: could take between ten to twenty years, according to the developers.
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  Speaker 1: Given the scale, technical complexity, and safety implications of high
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  Speaker 1: voltage transmission and substation systems, the city must retain specialized
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  Speaker 1: electrical engineering expertise. According to city documents, the energization phase
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  Speaker 1: of such a high powered campus is described by city
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  Speaker 1: staff as one of the most critical risk points in
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  Speaker 1: the life cycle of a data center development. The work
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  Speaker 1: of the electrical consulting specialists is intended to complement all
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  Speaker 1: the other inspection and review services conducted by city staff.
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  Speaker 1: The city is planning to engage in similar limited scope
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  Speaker 1: consulting agreements for each future data center project. According to
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  Speaker 1: city documents, the city currently is entertaining more than a
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  Speaker 1: dozen data center campus proposals across three thousand acres in
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  Speaker 1: the Elder Main Road corridor. The city said laying down
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  Speaker 1: the groundwork for consulting agreements now ensures future consistency across
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  Speaker 1: multiple large scale developments. The work performed by city staff
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  Speaker 1: includes services on low voltage electrical systems. It also includes
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  Speaker 1: architectural and structural plan reviews, mechanical systems inspections, and site
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  Speaker 1: planning work. The city council recently passed more costly data
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  Speaker 1: center permit fees to cover the costs of increased city
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  Speaker 1: inspection work, including the necessary new city hires. The city
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  Speaker 1: is looking to hire a full time electrical inspector and
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  Speaker 1: a full time mechanical inspector in the next few years,
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  Speaker 1: according to city documents.