A program of the Society · Regional infrastructure

The Data Center
Initiative.

No data centers in 60614.
Computation is essential. It happens where we cannot hear it.

The Village requires a great deal of computing. Doodle-cams, backup nanny-cams, restaurant verification and the household’s entire lighting scheme must work at once. The Committee has accepted the demand. It has declined the address.

The revised Perimeter brings the plan into twelve regional locations, well outside Chicago’s city limits. Brian has supplied the dossiers. The officers would like the capacity available before dinner and the buildings nowhere near it.

12proposed regional locations
1very well-served Village
0data centers proposed in 60614

The Regional Compute Perimeter

Explore the map & twelve dossiers →
The Perimeter: twelve remote data center locations serving Lincoln Park and the Society

Open the full-size map. The Perimeter’s twelve locations, with Chicago given its proper prominence. Exact locality and distance details are in the site cards.

  1. 01Willardsville
  2. 02Hog Sump
  3. 03Chigger Flats
  4. 04Punkin Center
  5. 05Lower Frog Hollow
  6. 06Drainage District No. 9
  7. 07Slaughters Grove
  8. 08Peat Bog Junction
  9. 09Gravel Slough
  10. 10Vulture Roost
  11. 11Skunk Grove
  12. 12Sparrow Ditch
The operating requirement

A doodle must never buffer.

The Village Ingress Study sets out the household workload and the Committee’s service standard. The twelve-location revision keeps that requirement in place.

Read the ingress study →
The Society record

60614 is not a server room.

The campaign began with questions about the water pressure and a basement near North and Halsted. The relocation policy remains unusually popular at home.

Read the original campaign bulletin →
The presentation

Twelve locations. One Village.

The current six-slide briefing brings the map, service register and Village benefits together.

Download PowerPoint →
Read the PDF →