Illinois Data Center Market

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The Illinois data center market is located in the region of Midwest US and within United States. Illinois has 237 facilities.

The top providers in Illinois are Meta (5 sites) and Microsoft Azure with 5 facilities . The most popular facilities are Equinix Chicago CH1, CH2, & CH4 and Digital Realty: ORD10.

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Market Facts

Illinois Data Center Map

Illinois Power Growth Over Time

+56% since 2022
Operational
Construction
Planned
Prospective
Land Bank
In Doubt
Currently Operational
across NN Request Dataset sites
Under Construction
NN Request Dataset sites currently building
Planned / Prospective
NN Request Dataset sites announced, but haven't started construction

Largest Providers in Illinois

Meta
Site
Power
Operational
5
260.0
Construction
0
Planned
0
Prospective Expansion
0
Land Bank
0
In Doubt
0
Withdrawn
0
Decommissioned
0
Totals
5
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Microsoft Azure
Site
Power
Operational
4
239.0
Construction
1
Planned
4
Prospective Expansion
0
Land Bank
0
In Doubt
1
Withdrawn
0
Decommissioned
0
Totals
5
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Digital Realty Trust
Site
Power
Operational
12
240.55
Construction
0
Planned
0
Prospective Expansion
0
Land Bank
1
In Doubt
0
Withdrawn
0
Decommissioned
0
Totals
12
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CyrusOne
Site
Power
Operational
6
179.4
Construction
1
Planned
10
Prospective Expansion
1
Land Bank
0
In Doubt
0
Withdrawn
1
Decommissioned
0
Totals
7
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Largest Data Centers in Illinois

Location About Total SqFt Power (MW)
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Digital Realty: ORD10
Digital Realty acquired the colocation services business of Hivelocity in 2025.
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Prime: ORD01-01
Prime Data Centers is building a 750,000 square foot hyperscale data center campus in Elk Grove V...
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Valley BetaInterested in this information?Contact us
DeKalb 3 is the third building on Meta's DeKalb, Illinois campus, part of the expansion beyond th...
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CyrusOne: CHI2 DC1
The CyrusOne CHI2 data center is located on 16 acres, 45 minutes southwest of Chicago O'Hare Inte...
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Regions in Illinois

Data Center Events in Illinois See all

1 events
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SC26 is the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held November 15 to 20, 2026 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The 2026 edition carries the theme "HPC Unites." Co-sponsored by ACM/SIGHPC and IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on High Performance Computing (TCHPC), with IEEE Computer Society celebrating its 80th anniversary at this ed...

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The Illinois data center market is dominated by Chicago with only a few data centers outside of the Chicago region.

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