Has Digital Crossroad had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Digital Crossroad.

Where is Digital Crossroad located?

Digital Crossroad is in Hammond, Lake County, IN.

Mapped (unverified)

Digital Crossroad

100 Digital Crossroad Drive · Hammond, Lake County, IN

Digital Crossroad is a mapped data center in Lake County, IN. DataCentersExposed has documented a 116,014 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent

—

Operator

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Est. capacity

~20-50 MW

Footprint

116,014 sq ft

Interconnection

~175 MW

Utility

Northern Indiana PUB Serv Co

Grid

MISO

Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Digital Crossroad is a mapped data center in Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, with a reported footprint of 116,014 square feet. It draws power from Northern Indiana Public Service Company inside the MISO grid. Available records do not name an operator or ultimate corporate parent for the site.

The grid behind this site, right now

source: MISO · gridstatus

Clean right now

54%

Fossil right now

42%

Grid operator

MISO

Wind21.6%
Natural Gas21.4%
Coal20.5%
Solar18.4%
Nuclear14.1%
Imports2.2%
Other1.8%

Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 4:35 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: GDELT

No recent coverage found for this facility.

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.

Water use

Modeled estimate~3.4M gpd

Direct (onsite cooling)

~1.6M gpd

Indirect (its electricity)

~1.8M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 175 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.55 gal/kWh embedded in MISO 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.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow

PM2.5

Moderate

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

$55.4K

People of color

64%

Below poverty

16%

Tract population

5,432

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, Sadlowski Elementary School in Chicago, is 0.4 mi from this site (625 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

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.