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Centersquare Elk Grove Village Data Center Campus ORD2

2425 Busse Road · Elk Grove Village, DuPage County, IL

Source: OpenStreetMap

Centersquare Elk Grove Village Data Center Campus ORD2 is an operating data center in DuPage County, IL, operated by CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera). DataCentersExposed has documented a 198,323 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera)
Operator
CenterSquare (formerly Cyxtera)
Est. capacity
~35-80 MW
Footprint
198,323 sq ft
Interconnection
~17 MW
Utility
Commonwealth Edison Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

ORD2 is an operating colocation data center in Elk Grove Village, DuPage County, Illinois, run by CenterSquare, formerly Cyxtera. Records put its footprint at 198,323 square feet. The site draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co inside the PJM grid.

Operator chain

In the news

source: GDELT

Data-center discussions in DuPage County

source: LocalView (CC0)

Local-government meetings in this county that discussed data centers, each cued to the moment. From the public LocalView corpus of government meetings on YouTube — a county-level signal, not necessarily about this specific site.

Aurora City Council
Dec 8, 2020 · 1 data-center mention

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.

Statewide cost of this incentive

Illinois reported $983.2M in Data Center Investment Program — state & local sales/use tax exemption (20 ILCS 605/605-1025; administered by DCEO) (2019-2024 (27 certified data centers; cumulative estimated exemption value)) (Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)). Program-wide, not attributable to this site.

source · All Illinois subsidies →

Water use

Modeled estimate~318.4K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~155.2K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~163.2K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 17 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.5 gal/kWh embedded in PJM grid mix. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

What this site costs the grid

source: PJM RPM auction reports
ComEd (Illinois) · 2027/28 auction
$333 /MW-day
Peaked at $188/MW-day in 2020/21 2.46× the rest of PJM

PJM's capacity auction sets a $/MW-day price that utilities pass on to every household and business in the zone. This site sits in PJM's COMED pricing zone, where soaring data-center demand is a documented driver. See the full zone-by-zone breakdown →

This site's capacity-market cost (estimated)
$4.3M to $9.7M/yr

An estimated ~35 to 80 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price. Estimated from the building footprint at 200 to 400 W/ft² (the typical range for modern data centers). A rough order-of-magnitude figure, not a metered or permitted capacity.

Separately, a typical home in this zone pays an estimated $4 to $10/mo more on the capacity portion of its bill that PJM's market monitor attributes to data-center demand. See your address's full impact →

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
67
PM2.5
Moderate
45
O3
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (Chicago), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$81.9K
People of color
71%
Below poverty
7%
Tract population
3,000

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Wood Dale Jr High School in Wood Dale, is 1.6 mi from this site (294 students).

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.