Chicago
Market boundary: facilities within 60 km of the metro center (editorial definition).
Totals only include facilities with a reported or estimated figure; most sites don't disclose power, so these are floors, not market size estimates. Online = operating sites; pipeline = remaining planned MW at sites under construction or planned.
Construction pipeline by expected completion
MW from phases with a projected completion date
No dated pipeline yet.
Power reality
Announced capacity vs. what grid records, construction and operation document. Facility-level sums; sources differ in coverage.
- Announced—
- Interconnection requests—
- Contracted / approved—
- Under construction—
- Operational—
Bucketed by the midpoint of each site's evidence-based window. Windows are ranges, not forecasts.
No large gaps in this scope.
Interconnection queues
Active requests to connect to the grid (MISO, PJM). Requests are applications, not commitments — most never get built.
Largest operators & owners
Online + pipeline MW at linked facilities
- Digital Realty— · 6 sites
- CyrusOne— · 4 sites
- NTT Global Data Centers— · 4 sites
- Centersquare— · 3 sites
- Equinix— · 3 sites
- CoreSite— · 2 sites
- EdgeConneX— · 2 sites
- Element Critical— · 2 sites
- Microsoft— · 2 sites
- Stream Data Centers— · 2 sites
- Aligned Data Centers— · 2 sites
- Netrality— · 1 sites
Largest customers & end users
Tenants and workload owners, where sourced
None identified.
Utility exposure
Most likely retail utility by location (approximate)
- Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)— · 50 sites
- NIPSCO— · 1 sites
Grid operators (ISO / RTO)
By facility location
- PJM— · 50 sites
- MISO— · 1 sites
Largest facilities
By online + pipeline MW
| Facility | Status | Online | Pipeline |
|---|
Facilities by status
- Operating51
Campuses & sites (32)
Campus pages list their buildings
- Centersquare Chicago Data Center - ORD1site
- Centersquare Elk Grove Village Data Center Campus ORD2building
- Centersquare Lisle ORD4 Data Centerbuilding
- CoreSite Chicago Data Center (CH1)site
- CoreSite Chicago Data Center (CH2)building
- Datacenter (386)building
- Digital Crossroadbuilding
- Digital Realty Chicago ORD12building
- Digital Realty ORD10site
- Digital Realty ORD11building
- Edged Chicago ORD01building
- Equinix Chicago CH3building
- Equinix Chicago Data Center - CH1site
- Equinix Chicago Data CH7building
- Iron Mountain Data & Record Storagebuilding
- Lakeside Technology Centerbuilding
- Lincoln Rackhousebuilding
- Microsoft - Azure Datacenterbuilding
- Microsoft CHI11building
- Netralitysite
- NetSource Communications, Incbuilding
- QTS Chicagobuilding
- Serverfarm CH1building
- Skybox Chicago Ibuilding
- STACK Chicago CHI01building
- T5 Chicago IIbuilding
- Unnamed data centerbuilding
- Unnamed data centerbuilding
- Unnamed data centerbuilding
- Unnamed data center — 1215 Carolina Drivebuilding
- VISAbuilding
- West Monroesite