DuPage County, Illinois
DataCentersExposed tracks 10 AI data centers in DuPage County, Illinois — 6 operating and 0 in the pipeline, led by NTT Global Data Centers. Its transparent data-center risk score is 0/100.
Sources: Methodology, Coverage scorecard
DuPage County, Illinois has 10 tracked data centers, 6 of them operating. Its composite data-center risk score is 15 out of 100 — see the breakdown above for which factors drive it.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated May 29, 2026
- Project exposure · 27
- Power demand · 0
- Water draw · n/a
- Land footprint · n/a
What's happening in DuPage County
NTT Global Data Centers has the largest presence in DuPage 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centersquare Elk Grove Village Data Center Campus ORD2 Elk Grove Village | CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | — | |
| Centersquare Lisle ORD4 Data Center Lisle | CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera) | — | |
| CyrusOne CHI3 Aurora | CyrusOne LLC | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| CyrusOne Chicago Aurora CME Aurora | CyrusOne LLC | — | |
| Datacenter (386) | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Edged Chicago ORD01 | — | Mapped (unverified) | — |
| Element Critical CH1 Wood Dale | Element Critical | — | |
| Equinix Chicago Data CH7 | Equinix, Inc. | — | |
| Lincoln Rackhouse | — | — | |
| NTT Chicago CH3 Itasca | NTT Global Data Centers | Mapped (unverified) | — |
County commissioners
How the DuPage 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.