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228-acre CyrusOne data center agrees to pay Yorkville $15 million up-front, city imposes water use limits · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Two hundred twenty eight acre cyrus Ie Data Center agrees
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  Speaker 1: to pay Yorkville fifteen million dollars upfront, city imposes water
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  Speaker 1: use limits. Written by Joey Weslow, This article is being
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  Speaker 1: The developers of the cyrus Ie Data Center in Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: have agreed to pay the city fifteen million dollars upfront
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  Speaker 1: on the issuance of the first building permit. This comes
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  Speaker 1: in the face of new water usage requirements imposed by
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  Speaker 1: the city and plans by the developer to shrink the
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  Speaker 1: foot size of the site layout. The City Council has
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  Speaker 1: to approve the agreement. The two hundred twenty eight acre
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  Speaker 1: cyrus Ie Data Center was the first project approved by
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  Speaker 1: the city. The one thousand and thirty seven acre Project
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  Speaker 1: Cardinal and the five hundred forty acre Project Steel Data
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  Speaker 1: Center soon joined the city's El Domain Corridor industrial transition.
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  Speaker 1: The developers of Project Cardinal previously agreed to pay Yorkville
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  Speaker 1: fifty one million dollars, and the developers of Project Steel
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  Speaker 1: previously agreed to pay the city forty million nine dollars.
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  Speaker 1: City administrator bart Olsen previously said The money would fund
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  Speaker 1: city improvement projects, the Yorkville one hundred and fifteen School
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  Speaker 1: District expansion, the Bristol Kendall Fire Protection District expansion, and
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  Speaker 1: local charitable community organizations. The cyrus Ie Data Center property
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  Speaker 1: is located at the northeast corner of Faxon Road in
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  Speaker 1: Eldamain Road. Amendments to the site plan is the second
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  Speaker 1: largest alteration that developers have submitted to the city since
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  Speaker 1: city council originally gave the green light to the project.
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  Speaker 1: The site originally included nine two story data center warehouse buildings,
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  Speaker 1: totaling around two point four to five million square feet.
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  Speaker 1: The site now includes eight single story warehouses totaling one million,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred fifty four thousand, eight hundred five feet. The
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  Speaker 1: warehouses will now have a maximum height of fifty feet
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  Speaker 1: ten inches. All warehouses will be constructed in phases over
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  Speaker 1: a ten to twenty year construction period. The first building
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  Speaker 1: is expected to be up and running by the end
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  Speaker 1: of the first quarter of twenty twenty eight. With the amendments,
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  Speaker 1: the distance from a warehouse to the nearest residential structure
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  Speaker 1: has increased from seven hundred and thirty two feet to
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and thirty three feet. The increase setback is
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  Speaker 1: because the site is now more condensed with the warehouses.
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  Speaker 1: The site will have an eight hundred thousand square foot
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  Speaker 1: electrical substation to power the campus. Cyrus I secured a
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  Speaker 1: full electrical capacity allocation of four hundred and eighty megawatts
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  Speaker 1: from KAMED. The site will be energized by the end
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty seven, according to city documents. Construction at
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  Speaker 1: the site began earlier this spring. New water usage standards
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  Speaker 1: similar to agreements between the city and Project Cardinal and
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  Speaker 1: Project Steel, the city is imposing water usage standards for
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  Speaker 1: the cyrus Ie project. According to the city, the developer
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  Speaker 1: is installing a closed loop cooling system, which is far
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  Speaker 1: more water efficient than an open loop air drying cooling system.
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  Speaker 1: While it is more expensive for the developers to install
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  Speaker 1: closed loop cooling systems dramatically reduce water consumption by data centers,
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  Speaker 1: Project Cardinal is installing a closed loop cooling system. Project
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  Speaker 1: Steel is likely installing a closed loop system to abide
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  Speaker 1: by the city's new water regulations. While the cyrus One
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  Speaker 1: project was initially projected to consume five hundred thousand gallons
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  Speaker 1: of water per day, the modifications will now reduce it
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  Speaker 1: to a maximum of forty thousand gallons per day, with
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  Speaker 1: the average home consuming around three hundred gallons of water
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  Speaker 1: per day. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, cyrus
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  Speaker 1: One's maximum water usage is around the equivalent of one
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  Speaker 1: thirty three homes. If water usage exceeds the average daily limit,
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  Speaker 1: or if any day exceeds one point seven times the
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  Speaker 1: average allotment, the city will impose financial penalties. According to
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  Speaker 1: city documents. The city is also monitoring sound pollution, with
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  Speaker 1: penalties imposed if the data center campus exceeds limits. According
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  Speaker 1: to the city, the developer has agreed to continuous noise
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  Speaker 1: monitoring and will be required to install noise monitoring devices.
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  Speaker 1: Echoing the call from residents at city meetings, The city
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  Speaker 1: will conduct ongoing traffic monitoring during the lengthy construction period
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  Speaker 1: to determine compliance with the city's traffic plan. The developer
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  Speaker 1: is paying the costs for reconstructing both Faxin Road and
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  Speaker 1: Beacher Road. The improvements include railroad crossing work that will
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  Speaker 1: be designed and constructed by the city, with costs borne
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  Speaker 1: by the Cyrus One. Roadway improvements are expected to be
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  Speaker 1: completed by November thirtieth, twenty twenty seven, and the railroad
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  Speaker 1: crossing work is expected to be completed by November thirtieth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Cyrus One is a Texas based development company.
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus One and Greendor Capital were involved in another project
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  Speaker 1: in town, a one hundred and twenty eight acre data center,
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  Speaker 1: which is no longer moving forward, according to city officials,