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First-approved data center in Yorkville downsizing plans, all buildings likely to be half the height · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: First approved data center in Yorkville, downsizing plans all buildings
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  likely to be half the height that are written by
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  Joey Weslow. This article is being read by an automated
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  voice brought to you by Everlett. If they were With
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  three thousand acres eyed for data center development in Yorkville,
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  residents have raised several concerns, including that a data center
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  bubble could leave the city on the hook. Developers of
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  the first approved data center campus in Yorkville told the
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  city on February tenth they are scaling down development plans
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  with large plans like the one thousand and thirty four
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  acre Project Cardinal and the five forty acre Project Steel.
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  Residents have questioned during city meetings whether advancing technology will
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  make the massive scale data center campuses obsolete over the
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  span over their decade or more of construction. Data center
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  activity in Yorkville began with the two forty eight acre
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  Cyrus one Data Center in partnership with Greendoor Capital. The
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  development is located at the northeast corner of Eldermain Road
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  and Faxon Road. The original approved PUD included nine two
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  story data center warehouses totaling two point four million square
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  feet and an eight hundred thousand square foot substation. The
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  developers have since reduced the plan to eight warehouses totaling
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  two point one million square feet, and downsize the substation
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  by half its original size. Further, the developers said they
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  will probably amend the plan the future to reduce all
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  remaining eight warehouses from two stories to one story each.
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  Representatives for the development told the city they are moving
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  closer to beginning construction. We are moving forward, Russ Whitaker
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  said on behalf of Cyrus One during the February tenth
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  City Council meeting. We will begin construction here in the
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  first quarter of thishear year, with the expectation of delivery
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  of power next year, so we can begin with building
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  once we get through site development work. Whitaker said downscaling
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  the building's heights should not change the amount of power
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  used for the overall project. He said the transformer delivery
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  and installation will be happening later this year. Cyrus One
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  is a Texas based development company. Both Cyrus One and
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  Greendor Capital are involved in another project in town, a
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  one hundred and twenty eight acre data center plan north
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  of Faxon Road, south of Corneil's Road and east of
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  Beecher Road. City officials have said the three thousand acres
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  of potential data center development along the Eldomin Corridor can
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  generate significant tax revenues for the city.