Posted on 09/05/2024 5:16:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
CHICAGO — This week, workers began tearing down the vacant Sears world headquarters in Hoffman Estates before the site is turned into a data center, a trend that has grown popular in the suburbs and now, a Chicago alderman wants to bring more of them into the city.
That alderman is the 36th Ward’s Gilbert Villegas, who is advocating for a plan at City Council to convert vacant Chicago land into data centers.
At a cost of millions annually, city government stores its data at centers locate outside of Chicago. Villegas, chairman of the Council Technology Committee, has written an ordinance requiring more city data to be stored in the city.
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That’s just what I want. My data distribution assets sitting in the reclaimed parts of Chicago.
99.9% uptime*
*as measured while hardware is not mostly peacefully on fire or riddled with bullets
I can smell the pork sizzling from here.
They’d better not use a lot of copper.
Data centers are where we all live on forever in searchable content just waiting on the next algorithm to report to.
Great targets IMHO.
Well, if they want to create a data center / server farm in Chicago, I wish them luck. I’ve worked in building them, it’s a lot of effort.
I wonder if they’re thinking of a private cloud design. That’s even more work.
I’m not particularly knowledgeable on such things, but can the local power grid handle a data center?
It is nice to work in a data center because the AC and humidity are always just right for fat white guys.
United Airlines’ old headquarters on Algonquin Rd which I believe was their hq for 50 or 60 years, was torn down and turned into a data center.
All State in Northbrook also
They just opened a Hard Rock Casino in Rockford. The traffic around that area was bad before. We won’t go near the place.
Wow, bringing in all those jobs to Shitcago land...LOL, fools.
—”United Airlines’ old headquarters on Algonquin Rd “
OH MY!
I spent a lot of time there from the 70s to the 80s.
An interesting place.
Deep underneath the northmost building and parking lot was a data center.
They monitored all of UAL’s fleet and some others for ongoing maintenance history, location, engine load/temps...
One day a pipe leaked and shut it down, all of their planes were commanded to remain on the ground or land if possible...
They told us the cost per minute, an insane number.
It took about two hours to restart the computer after the water was stopped.
Water sensors below the raised floor had to be located and dried amongst a spaghetti bowl of cables...
Crazy times... Many good people and it was only down for a couple of hours.
Two of the biggest pork eaters sitting on this interview— just look at the “cooperative” Socialism at work— to “force city employees to live IN Chicago”— so they would have to return the exorbitant in city taxes back to— the city. Cutting out a piece of Cook County’s “pies” to chi-town city moguls and thugs.
HAS ANYONE told the public how much water & POWER these ‘data centers’ use up-—EVERY DAY???
I MEAN USE-—NO WATER IS RECYCLED—Goes Into the Air.
“Well, if they want to create a data center / server farm in Chicago, I wish them luck.”
There’s one right along the Eisenhower Expressway near the old Post Office. That’s the only one that I’m aware of inside the city. Elk Grove Village has several very large ones, however. I was involved in a few of those builds.
Good luck getting sufficient power to them in Chicago. The infrastructure in the city is ancient.
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New York City makes people working in the city pay city income tax, including athletes playing away games in NYC, for game checks for those games. (Notice there are no NFL teams in NYC.) Belichick observed that Massachusetts’s recent(2022) ballot initiative “millionaire” tax makes it very hard for the Patriots to sign free agents.
Unintended consequences.
After going over all the comments, it sounds like an expensive mess in the making. Couldn’t an alderman come up with a few ideas that DIDN’T cost the city more money?
my wife worked in that building for years...
there is a place in Geneva-Batavia that stores data underground...last i saw, it was for sale.
Wonder what they do with the existing stuff if it’s no longer a data center...?
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