Quality Technology Services site director Toby Hallmer walks through 40,000 square feet of vacant space intended for future use at the data center, which is housed in the Sun-Times' former printing plant, on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. (Antonio Perez/ Chicago Tribune/TNS)
Entering the datacentre that occupies the former Chicago Sun-Times' printing facility is like walking through the set of a James Bond film.
There's a 10-foot-tall steel fence encircling the property on the Lower West Side. There are gates, buzzers, a security desk, cameras and doors that use fingerprints as their key. The final entry into the room full of locked server cages requires an iris scan.
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