Digital Realty CH3

Digital Realty CH3 is an operating colocation data center in Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Illinois, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. The site spans 348,220 square feet and draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co within the PJM grid. It is one node in Digital Realty's broader portfolio of data center holdings.

• Elk Grove Village mayor defends data centers at packed community hearing

  Chicago Tribune· May 21, 2026
• News | The other side of the data center boom

  CoStar· May 11, 2026
• U.S. Data Center Construction Market Outlook Report 2025-2030 Featuring Key DC Investors - Apple, Applied Digital, AWS, CyrusOne, DataBank, Digital Realty, Equinix, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NTT - ResearchAndMarkets.com

  Business Wire· May 16, 2025
• News | Another data center is taking off near Chicago’s O’Hare airport

  CoStar· Mar 26, 2025
• Data Center Construction Ramping Up in Chicago Area

  Data Center Knowledge· May 31, 2024
• Data center provider razes 55 homes to make room for Illinois campus

  Network World· Mar 21, 2024

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.

▶ ~18:13

Chicago Board Of Education

Dec 5, 2018 · 1 data-center mention

These tax breaks are recorded to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
• Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
  State of Texas · granted 2014 · term — yr · source

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

No reported violations as of last sync.

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 →

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

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

The nearest public school, Clearmont Elem School in Elk Grove Village, is 1.3 mi from this site (424 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).

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.