Forsythe Technology to Build 221K SF “Retail Plus” Data Center Colocation Facility in Elk Grove Village

By Gabriel Circiog, Associate Editor

IT infrastructure Forsythe Technology recently announced it plans to design and build a state-of-the-art data center facility in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The new 221,000-square-foot data center aims to address the needs of enterprises that are seeking for the best of both the retail and wholesale colocation data center markets. The development will feature higher-density, private data center suites with dedicated power and cooling infrastructure, customizable physical security and operational efficiency options. The facility is being designed to comply with U.S. Green Building Council LEED certification standards for data centers and to obtain Tier III certification from the Uptime Institute.

The company also announced that upon completion of the new facility, it will be moving its independent, multi-vendor Technology Evaluation Center, its Executive Briefing Center and its Integration and Configuration Center from its Skokie, Illinois corporate headquarters.

“After many years of listening to the needs of our clients and helping them build data centers and find colocation data center space, we made sure this data center facility has everything they have been asking us for,” says Steve Harris, Forsythe vice president of data center development.

The new Elk Grove Village facility will feature amenities such as client workspaces, conference rooms and will offer its tenants the possibility to rapidly expand their private data center suite through its modular suite design. Thanks to its denser environment, tenants will be able to optimize their IT configurations and reduce their facility footprint and associated operational costs.

A new subsidiary, called Forsythe Data Centers Inc., will manage the center and will be led by Albert Weiss and Steve Harris.

“Forsythe’s facility offers the flexibility and agility of the retail data center market, in terms of size and shorter contract length, with the privacy, control and density of large-scale, wholesale data centers,” says Albert Weiss, president of Forsythe Data Centers Inc.

The facility is being designed, engineered, powered and constructed with the help of Environmental Systems Design Inc., Turner Construction, Duke Realty, Emerson Network Power, ComEd and Anixter.

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