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Meta: DeKalb IL

Short Code: Dekalb 1
Year Built: 2022
Floors: 2
Lot Size: 505 acres

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Three years after construction began, the social media giant Meta's new data center in DeKalb became officially operational in December 2024. The campus is located on a 505-acre property just south of Route 88. With one million square feet already built, the facility's total planned space is an impressive 2.3 million square feet. Meta's site in DeKalb, Illinois, can ultimately hold up to five data center buildings, enabling further expansion capacity. The campus cost the company over $1 billion to complete since it was first announced in 2020.

  • The first H-shaped building (DeKalb 1 & 2) is a 907,000 square foot (84,300 square meter) data center and Meta's 12th in the US, supported by 100 percent renewable energy via power purchase agreements.

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Three years after construction began, the social media giant Meta's new data center in DeKalb became officially operational in December 2023.
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0.35 miles Karis: DeKalb 5
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
0.44 miles Karis: DeKalb 4
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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0.52 miles Karis: DeKalb 7
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
0.54 miles Karis: DeKalb 3
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
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0.71 miles Karis: DeKalb Campus
Karis Critical is investing to build a huge data center campus in DeKalb, Illinois. The plan is for seven two-story data center buildings, each spanning 250,000 sq ft (23,226 sq m).
0.73 miles Karis: DeKalb 2
This data center is a part of Karis' DeKalb Campus in Illinois.
16.79 miles Project Cardinal Expansion
17.17 miles Savion: Plano Expansion
17.25 miles Project Cardinal
Pioneer Development, LLC has filed an application for Project Cardinal, a sprawling data center campus planned for over 1,000 acres in Yorkville, Kendall County.
17.36 miles Savion: Plano, Illinois
Savion, the company developing the massive 250MW Plano Skies Energy Center solar project in Kendall County, Illinois, is now proposing to add a large data center campus to the development.
17.54 miles Prologis: Project Steel
Project Steel involves developing a 540-acre campus featuring 24 two-story data center buildings, totaling over 9 million square feet (836,125 sqm), along with three substations.
17.70 miles Prologis: Project Steel Expansion
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Microsoft acquired 500 acres of land around Eldamain and Corneils roads from three landowners in Plano, Illinois.
18.96 miles CyrusOne: Yorkville 3
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
18.96 miles CyrusOne: Yorkville Campus
CyrusOne is building a huge data center campus on 228 acres in Kendall County outside of Chicago, Illinois. The data center campus will have up to nine (9) two-story buildings and a centralized 800,000-square-foot electric substation.
19.05 miles CyrusOne: Yorkville 2
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
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This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.
19.29 miles CyrusOne: Yorkville 9
This data center is a part of CyrusOne's Little Rock Township Campus in Illinois.

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