Chicago Data Center Market
Chicago data center market: capacity, vacancy, ComEd pricing, PJM interconnect queue, and the Elk Grove Village hyperscale absorption pipeline.
Location: North America, United States.
Market Metrics
- Operational capacity: 850 MW
- Facilities tracked: 68
Tracked Facilities
- Equinix CH1/CH2/CH4 - Chicago — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- Printer's Square Chicago (600 S Federal) — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- Level(3) Chicago (Canal) — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- 365 Data Centers Chicago (CH6) — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- CoreSite - Chicago (CH1) — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- Digital Realty CHI (350 E Cermak) — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- Equinix CH3 - Elk Grove — Elk Grove Village, IL (5 MW)
- Digital Realty CHI (2200 Busse Rd.) — Elk Grove Village, IL (5 MW)
- CyrusOne Chicago (Lombard) — Lombard, IL (5 MW)
- Northwestern University co-location facility — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- SBA Edge, LLC — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- Level(3) Chicago (Kingsbury) — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- CME Cermak — Chicago, IL (5 MW)
- NETRIX - MTP — Mount Prospect, IL (5 MW)
- CyrusOne Aurora I — Aurora, IL (5 MW)
Powering a Project in This Market
Where the interconnection queue sets the schedule, on-site generation is the alternative that can be delivered in months. The Power Intelligence Tool compares fuel cells, aeroderivative gas turbines, reciprocating gas engines, diesel generators, and solar plus storage on twenty-year cost and time to power. Equipment sits in the marketplace — gas turbines, generators, transformers, and switchgear — with four-tier price context in the Pricing Index and acquisition capital through equipment financing.
Sourcing
Market figures above are stored values from the SecondWatt data center dataset. Collection and refresh rules are documented on the methodology page. Other markets and operators are indexed in the data center library, and published analysis in articles and reports.