Data centers in Illinois
Every site we track in Illinois, the jobs each one brings where a public source states them and the officials who represent them.
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Count118sites tracked (73 operating, 16 under construction, 29 announced)
Single-site maximum1,200largest sourced construction figure at one site (2 sites sourced; not added up)
Count29sites with sourced planned permanent jobs
Sum of 21 sites$6.9 billionannounced investment at 21 sites
What changed after November 3
Election Day was Nov 3, 2026. These are winners of AP-called races who take office in January 2027. Each links to its AP race call. This box covers races for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House only. Other statewide offices, such as lieutenant governor, are not included. Results are unofficial until Illinois certifies them.
- Juliana Stratton (D), U.S. Senator-elect. Called by AP. source
- La Shawn Ford (D), U.S. Representative-elect, IL-7. Called by AP. source
- Patty Garcia (D), U.S. Representative-elect, IL-4. Called by AP. source
- Melissa Bean (D), U.S. Representative-elect, IL-8. Called by AP. source
- Donna Miller (D), U.S. Representative-elect, IL-2. Called by AP. source
- Daniel Biss (D), U.S. Representative-elect, IL-9. Called by AP. source
Sites in Illinois
Sites with sourced job numbers first. Construction and permanent jobs are shown separately and never added together.
| Site | County | Status | Construction jobs | Permanent jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joliet Technology Center HW Technology Park (Hillwood Investment Properties / PowerHouse Data Centers) | Will | Announced | not stated | more than 700 |
| Logan Prairie Data Center Hut 8 Corp | Logan | Announced | not stated | about 200 |
| CyrusOne Sangamon County Data Center Campus CyrusOne | Sangamon | Announced | not stated | more than 100 |
| Meta DeKalb Data Center Meta | Dekalb | Operating | 1,200 | 50 |
| Edged DeKalb Campus (Project Vector) Edged (Endeavour Energy) | Dekalb | Announced | not stated | at least 50 |
| Serverfarm CH1 Serverfarm | Cook | Operating | not stated | 29 |
| Iron Mountain CHI-1 Iron Mountain Data Centers | Cook | Operating | not stated | 22 |
| Aligned ORD-03 Aligned Data Centers | Cook | Under construction | not stated | 21 |
| Equinix CH8 Minooka Equinix | Grundy | Announced | more than 1,200 | 20 |
| Aligned ORD-01 Aligned Data Centers | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| Centersquare ORD2 (Elk Grove Village) Centersquare (Csquare) | Operating | not stated | 20 | |
| Centersquare ORD4 (Lisle) Centersquare (Csquare) | Dupage | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| CyrusOne CHI1-CHI3 (Aurora) CyrusOne | Kane | Operating | not stated | more than 20 |
| CyrusOne Wood Dale Campus CyrusOne | Dupage | Under construction | not stated | 20 |
| CyrusOne Yorkville Technology Campus (CHI-11) CyrusOne | Kendall | Under construction | not stated | 20 |
| Digital Realty ORD12 Digital Realty | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| EdgeConneX CHI01 EdgeConneX | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| Equinix CH3 (Elk Grove Village) Equinix | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| HydraVault Chicago HydraVault | Cook | Under construction | not stated | 20 |
| Metro Edge IMD1 Metro Edge Development Partners | Cook | Announced | not stated | 20 |
Show all 118 sites
| Site | County | Status | Construction jobs | Permanent jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Elk Grove Data Center Microsoft | Cook | Under construction | not stated | 20 |
| Microsoft Hoffman Estates Data Center Microsoft | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| Microsoft Northlake Data Center Microsoft | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| NTT Chicago CH1 Data Center NTT Global Data Centers | Dupage | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| Oracle Elk Grove Village Data Center Oracle | Cook | Announced | not stated | 20 |
| QTS Chicago 1 QTS Data Centers | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| STACK Chicago CHI01 STACK Infrastructure | Cook | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| T5 @ Chicago III (Northlake) T5 Data Centers | Cook | Under construction | not stated | 20 |
| Volo Data Center Chirisa Technology Parks | Lake | Operating | not stated | 20 |
| 300 West Adams Data Center Conversion Igor Gabal (affiliated ownership entity) | Cook | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Aligned Coal City Campus Aligned Data Centers | Grundy | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Apotech Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Ascent, CH2 Ascent, LLC | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| CDC1, 350 E Cermak Rd Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| CDC2, 600 S Federal st Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| CDC4, 1,808 Swift Dr Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| CME Cermak Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Centersquare Chicago Data Center, ORD1 CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Centersquare Elk Grove Village Data Center Campus ORD2 CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Centersquare Lisle ORD4 Data Center CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Centersquare ORD1 (Chicago Cermak) Centersquare (Csquare) | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Cloud Centers Data Center CloudBurst | Dupage | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| CloudHQ Mount Prospect (ORD) Campus CloudHQ | Cook | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| Cloverleaf Troy Data Center Campus Cloverleaf Infrastructure | Madison | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Compass Datacenters Hoffman Estates Campus Compass Datacenters | Cook | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| CoreSite CH2 CoreSite | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| CoreSite Chicago Data Center (CH1) CoreSite, LLC | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| CyrusOne Chicago (Lombard) Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| CyrusOne Chicago Aurora CME CyrusOne | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| DataBank Chicago (ORD2) Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| DataBank Chicago (ORD3) Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| DataBank Chicago (ORD4) Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| DataBank ORD3 (Mount Prospect) DataBank | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| DataBank ORD4 (Chicago Tri-State) DataBank | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| DataBridge Sites Aurora Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Datacenter (386) Owner not yet confirmed | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Digital Realty CH2 Digital Realty | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Digital Realty CH3 Digital Realty | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Digital Realty ORD10 Digital Realty | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Digital Realty ORD11 Digital Realty | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Digital Realty ORD23 Digital Realty | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Eagle Rock Christian County Data Center Eagle Rock Partners | Christian | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) Edged U.S. | Dupage | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| Edged Chicago ORD01 Owner not yet confirmed | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Element Critical CH1 Element Critical | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Equinix CH1 Equinix | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Equinix CH7 Equinix | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Gail Technology Data Center Gail Technology | Effingham | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| GigeNET CHI3 Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Hut 8 Batavia Data Center Batavia DC Corp (Hut 8 Corp subsidiary) | Kane | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| Hut8 Data Center Hut 8 | Logan | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Iron Mountain Data & Record Storage Iron Mountain Incorporated | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| KARIS DeKalb Campus (Peace and Gurler Roads) Karis Acquisitions | Dekalb | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Lakeside Technology Center Owner not yet confirmed | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Lambda Chicago EdgeConneX AI Factory Lambda | Cook | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| Level(3) Chicago (Canal) Lumen Technologies | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Level(3) Chicago (Kingsbury) Lumen Technologies | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Lincoln Rackhouse Owner not yet confirmed | Dupage | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Menlo Digital Chicago Exchange (601 West Polk) Menlo Digital (Menlo Equities) | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Meta Meta | Dekalb | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Microsoft Plano Data Center Site (Eldamain Road) Microsoft | Kendall | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Microsoft, Azure Datacenter Microsoft | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Morris Technology Park Tract | Grundy | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| NCSA Petascale Computing Facility Owner not yet confirmed | Champaign | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| NETRIX, ALSIP Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| NETRIX, BBN Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| NETRIX, MTP Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| NYI CH1 (800 Jorie Blvd) Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Netrality 717 South Wells Netrality Data Centers | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Nexstar Media Group Data Center Owner not yet confirmed | Cook | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Northwestern University co-location facility Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Plano Skies Data Center Campus (Rock Creek Road) Savion | Kendall | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| PowerHouse Data Centers Owner not yet confirmed | Will | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| PowerHouse Hillwood Holding PowerHouse Hillwood Holding | Will | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| Prime ORD Chicago Campus Prime Data Centers | Cook | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| Project Cardinal Data Center Campus Pioneer Development LLC | Kendall | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Project Kilo Data Center (South Elgin) White Rose Partners | Kane | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Project Steel Data Center Campus Prologis | Kendall | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Quad State Internet METRO1 Colocation Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| RagingWire CH1, NTT RagingWire Data Centers | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Related Digital South Works Campus (8080 S DuSable Lake Shore Drive) Related Digital | Cook | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Rochelle Technology Center Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Rock Air Data Center Campus Monarch Energy | Announced | not stated | not stated | |
| SBA Edge, LLC Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| SFN IL-Peoria Owner not yet confirmed | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Sangha Systems Hennepin (82 River North) Sangha Systems | Putnam | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Serverfarm CH2 Oak Brook / Chicago Serverfarm | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Skybox Chicago I Skybox Datacenters | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Stream Chicago III (ORDC) Stream Data Centers | Cook | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| T5 @ Chicago V (CHI V) T5 Data Centers | Cook | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| T5 Chicago IV (CHI IV) T5 Data Centers | Lake | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| TA Realty Elk Grove Village Data Center TA Realty | Cook | Under construction | not stated | not stated |
| TierPoint Chicago, Polk TierPoint, LLC | Operating | not stated | not stated | |
| Tract Morris Data Center Tract | Grundy | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| Troy Cloverleaf Data Center Cloverleaf | Madison | Announced | not stated | not stated |
| VISA Owner not yet confirmed | Lake | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| West Monroe Owner not yet confirmed | Cook | Operating | not stated | not stated |
| Western Hospitality Partners Data Center Owner not yet confirmed | Will | Announced | not stated | not stated |
Counties with data center sites
What does this mean for your community?
Electric bills, water, housing and taxes in Data centers in Illinois: sites, jobs and officials: what we know, what remains unknown and who can answer. Statewide figures are context, not forecasts for any one community.
Will my electric bill rise?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No modeled or measured estimate of the effect on household bills has been published for this state.
- What remains unknown
- The effect on household bills in most states.
- Who can answer
- Your state utility commission and your utility's rate cases.
- Ask
- Will data centers pay the full cost of the power lines and plants built for them? Where is that written in a rate order?
How much water will it use?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No tracked project in this state has a published water figure in our sources.
- What remains unknown
- Water use for nearly every other project.
- Who can answer
- Your local water utility and county commission.
- Ask
- How much water will this project use each day? Where will it come from?
Will housing get more expensive?
No sourced figure yet for this state.
- In writing
- No public body we found tracks data center effects on local rents or land prices.
- What remains unknown
- Effects on local land prices, rents and housing.
- Who can answer
- Local land records and planning commission minutes.
- Ask
- Has anyone studied what this project will do to local rents and home prices?
What are taxpayers giving up?
34 Illinois data center incentive agreements through 2025: $10.67 billion committed investment, $666.6 million estimated tax benefits and 731 committed new jobs (state report) (statewide).
- In writing
- 22 sourced tax incentive records from state and local filings. See the records
- What remains unknown
- The full public cost and the net tax revenue for most projects.
- Who can answer
- Your state economic development agency and county commission.
- Ask
- What tax breaks does this project get? What must it deliver in return?
What the agreements say
- Statewide: 34 Illinois data center incentive agreements through 2025: $10.67 billion committed investment, $666.6 million estimated tax benefits and 731 committed new jobs (state report).
- Digital Realty ORD12: State and local sales tax exemption for up to 20 years, estimated value $25.3 million (state estimate).
- NTT Chicago CH1 Data Center: State and local sales tax exemption for up to 20 years, estimated value $17.2 million (state estimate).
From 22 signed or approved incentive records in our sources for this state. Terms are as published; we have not audited whether commitments were met.
Your officials in Illinois
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Show all serving officials (11 more)
Incoming in January 2027
Juliana Stratton D
U.S. Senator-elect · 118 sites represented
Quote
"as we see expansions of data centers, we know that many Illinoisans are concerned about rising utility costs. And we have to address that." source
Donna Miller D
U.S. Representative-elect · IL-2 · 1 site represented
QuoteParaphrase
"Organizations must also be required to disclose pertinent information as it relates to data centers, their environment and community impact, and job opportunities before being allowed to open and operate in communities." source
Daniel Biss D
U.S. Representative-elect · IL-9 · 0 sites represented
QuoteParaphrase
"if that can be done in a way with appropriate guard rails, with appropriate safety on the AI side, as well as appropriate environmental and land use and public input guard bills, there may be appropriate ways to do that" source