An AI data center is rising in downtown Chicago — filling all those empty offices
willcb · x · 2026-10-10
An AI data center is being built in downtown Chicago, prompting jokes that empty office buildings finally have a use — a sign of AI compute demand spilling into urban cores and repurposed office space.
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