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Netrality 717 South Wells Chicago Data Center

Chicago, Illinois, United StatesOperating
Evidence
Planned / design
2.1 MW
Updated
Oct 28, 2026

Netrality 717 South Wells Chicago Data Center is an operating Netrality Data Centers data center facility in Chicago, Illinois. Netrality's owner-operated 717 South Wells carrier hotel including its 2024 ninth-floor expansion. The retrofit records facility power capacity: 2.1 MW; building area: 100,000 sq ft. Utility service, UPS, standby generation, cooling, facility power and IT load are kept in their source-defined scopes rather than collapsed into one capacity number. Where reliable public evidence for ownership, project financing, permitting, tenants or water arrangements was not established, Cartis records the research gap explicitly instead of inferring a fact.

Capacity

Facility power capacity

Planned / design or future potential

2.1 MW

Source

Maximum cabinet density

Actual

30 kW per cabinet

Power density; not a whole-site capacity

Source

Ninth floor expansion capacity

Planned / design or future potential

600 kW

Source

Operating IT capacity: Not established in published records

A missing figure does not mean zero. Planned, utility and generation figures are not operating IT capacity.

Development

717 South Wells facilityOperational

Operating data center facility.

Milestones (2)
Amerimar/Netrality predecessor acquired 717 South Wells for carrier-hotel redevelopment.

Oct 30, 2014 · Recorded actual event

property acquisition

Completed · Land acquired

Sources (1)
Netrality documented 4,300 square feet and 600 kW on the ninth floor.

Aug 14, 2024 · Recorded actual event

high-density expansion

Completed · Capacity revised

Sources (1)

Participants

Netrality Data Centers

Operator

Sources by role
Operator (1)
Operator (1)

Site & development

Building area

Actual

100,000 sq. ft.

Source

Ninth floor expansion area

Actual

4,300 sq. ft.

Source

Additional project facts

Provider deployment count

Actual

31 providers

Source

Cloud partner count

Actual

6 partners

Source

Ownership status

Actual

Owner operated

Source

Infrastructure & permits

Technical details (3)
Cooling system

Operational

Air and liquid cooling; ninth-floor expansion uses waterless Delta Cube3 cooling.

Fiber

Operational

31 providers

31 provider deployments; carrier-hotel connectivity.

Electric grid

Operational

Redundant power architecture; exact utility service not inferred beyond separately scoped facility-capacity claim.

Public-source research. Plans may change. See Evidence for sources and qualifications.

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