Digital Crossroad
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Digital Crossroad is a wholesale colocation company comprised of proven industry veterans committed to delivering sustainable data center solutions that reduce environmental and economic cost. The company transformed a historic 20th century coal-burning power plant into a 21st century green data center campus in Hammond, Indiana, located 12 miles from downtown Chicago. It serves enterprises, hyperscalers, and cloud service providers requiring robust power, carrier-neutral connectivity, and scala...
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Ideal Customer
- Digital Crossroad's stated sweet spot is large hyperscale operators, national enterprise users, cloud service providers, and content delivery networks requiring significant power and scalable wholesale space.
- Managing Member Tom Dakich has explicitly stated the facility is designed for 'large hyperscalers and large enterprise users' rather than small or mid-market businesses.
Key Differentiators
- Digital Crossroad's primary differentiators are its exceptional cost economics enabled by Indiana's 'Zero for 50' tax incentive — a blanket 0% sales and use tax exemption on IT hardware, software, electricity, and construction fit-out for up to 50 years — which it claims reduces total cost of ownership by up to 50% compared to comparable Chicago-market alternatives.
- The facility's unique origin as a brownfield adaptive reuse of the Thomas Edison-designed State Line Generating Plant gives it an embedded sustainability narrative ('Born Green'), complemented by Lake Michigan water cooling and a planned 800kW onsite solar installation achieving a design PUE of 1.15.
Industries Served
- Digital Crossroad primarily targets technology-intensive verticals including hyperscale cloud providers, content delivery networks (CDNs), enterprise IT, and colocation resellers.
- The company has publicly disclosed customers from the CDN/edge computing sector and has attracted Indianapolis-based colocation provider Rack Bunker, which serves clients ranging from local and state government to Fortune 500 firms.
Service Coverage
- Digital Crossroad currently operates a single flagship campus — DX-1 — in Hammond, Indiana, situated on the Illinois/Indiana state border approximately 12 miles from downtown Chicago, serving the broader Chicagoland market.
- The campus spans a 77-acre site on the Lake Michigan shoreline and is planned to scale to 1.7 million square feet of total data center space.
Partnerships
- Digital Crossroad has established key connectivity and operational partnerships.
- Comcast Business has connected its high-speed Ethernet fiber network to DX-1, with capacity for up to 50 100Gbps circuits.
Company Size & Ownership
- Digital Crossroad was founded in 2018 and is a small company with an estimated 7–50 employees depending on the source (LinkedIn reports 11–50; PitchBook reports 7).
- The company completed its $40 million DX-1 facility in 2020 and reached full capacity, triggering a planned Phase 2 expansion of 180,000 sq ft and 20 MW announced in 2024.
Compliance & Certifications
- Publicly available sources do not confirm that Digital Crossroad holds specific third-party compliance certifications such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or FedRAMP.
- The DX-1 facility is built to Tier III concurrently maintainable standards with a design PUE of 1.15, and the campus received recognition as one of the 'World's Most Unusual and Creative Data Centers' by Analytics Insights in 2020 for its brownfield adaptive reuse.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 13, 2026
Offerings
3 offeringsBuild-to-Suit
Digital Crossroad's build-to-suit service allows customers to customize pad-ready land parcels and data center infrastructure to their specific requirements. This offering is designed for organizations that need a fully tailored data center solution rather than standard colocation space. It is part of Digital Crossroad's broader mission to provide flexible, sustainable data infrastructure.
Interconnection
Digital Crossroad offers interconnection services providing simple cross-connect connectivity to telecom or cloud providers of the customer's choice. The service leverages an extensive network of fiber providers to deliver high-speed, low-latency connections. The company also provides managed fiber cross-connects as part of its connectivity suite.
Wholesale Colocation
Digital Crossroad provides high-performance wholesale colocation environments for mission-critical IT infrastructure. Their flagship facility, DX-1, supports enterprise customers, hyperscalers, and cloud service providers with robust power, scalable space, and carrier-neutral connectivity. The campus offers up to 100 MW of low-cost power and an ultra-low PUE with a blanket sales tax exemption on IT hardware, software, and electricity.
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