Cook County, Illinois
DataCentersExposed tracks 23 AI data centers in Cook County, Illinois — 17 operating and 0 in the pipeline, led by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
Cook County, Illinois has 23 tracked data centers, 17 of them operating. Its composite data-center risk score is 21 out of 100 — see the breakdown above for which factors drive it.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
- Project exposure · 37
- Power demand · 0
- Water draw · n/a
- Land footprint · n/a
What's happening in Cook County
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has the largest presence in Cook County. We resolve project codenames and shell LLCs back to the corporate parent wherever the public record allows, so the table below names who is actually behind each site.
Below: every tracked facility in the county, the active state legislation that names it or its county, and local news. Commissioner vote records arrive in a later release; the placeholders show where that accountability data will land.
Every tracked facility
| Facility | Operator | Status | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aligned Data Center - Chicago ORD-02 Northlake | Aligned Energy Holdings, LP | — | |
| Centersquare Chicago Data Center - ORD1 Chicago | CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | — | |
| CoreSite Chicago Data Center (CH1) Chicago | American Tower Corporation | — | |
| CoreSite Chicago Data Center (CH2) Chicago | American Tower Corporation | — | |
| Digital Realty CH3 Elk Grove Village | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — | |
| Digital Realty Chicago ORD12 Franklin Park | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — | |
| Digital Realty ORD10 Chicago | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — | |
| Digital Realty ORD11 Chicago | Digital Realty Trust, Inc. | — | |
| EdgeConneX CHI02 Elk Grove Village | EdgeConneX, Inc. | — | |
| Equinix Chicago CH3 Elk Grove Village | Equinix, Inc. | — | |
| Equinix Chicago Data Center - CH1 Chicago | Equinix, Inc. | — | |
| Iron Mountain Data & Record Storage Chicago | Iron Mountain Incorporated | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Lakeside Technology Center Chicago | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Microsoft - Azure Datacenter Northlake | Microsoft Corporation | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Netrality Chicago | — | — | |
| QTS Chicago Chicago | QTS Realty Trust, LLC | — | |
| STACK Chicago CHI01 | Stack Infrastructure, Inc. | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Serverfarm CH1 Chicago | — | — | |
| Skybox Chicago I Elk Grove Village | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Stream Chicago I Elk Grove Village | Stream Data Centers | — | |
| Stream Chicago II Elk Grove Village | Stream Data Centers | — | |
| T5 Chicago II Elk Grove Village | — | — | |
| West Monroe | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
County commissioners
How the Cook County board votes on each data-center matter — the rezonings, the abatements, the water permits — is built from public-meeting minutes and roll-call records. Know of a vote we should be tracking? Tell us.