Digital Realty ORD11

ORD11 is an operating colocation data center in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Public records put its footprint at 9,092 square feet. The site draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co inside the PJM grid.

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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, Jones College Prep High School in Chicago, is 717 ft from this site (1,941 students). 6 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).

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.