Equinix Chicago Data Center - CH1

CH1 is an operating colocation data center in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, run by Equinix, Inc. Public records put its footprint at 129,156 square feet. The site draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co inside the PJM grid.

• FERC approves ComEd data center transmission agreements

  Utility Dive· Mar 11, 2026
• Illinois governor Pritzker calls for two-year pause on data center tax credits

  Data Center Dynamics· Feb 19, 2026
• Springfield reignites fight over who pays for Illinois' data center boom

  Crain's Chicago Business· Feb 12, 2026
• Cboe migrates its US Common disaster recovery data center to Equinix CH3 facility in Illinois

  Data Center Dynamics· Jan 26, 2026
• Illinois AG files objections to ComEd data center agreements at FERC

  Utility Dive· Jan 14, 2026
• Editorial: Ready or not, the data centers are coming. We must keep our electric bills from soaring.

  Chicago Tribune· Jan 11, 2026

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 Equinix, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

• The Climate Change Agreement$0
  HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
• The Climate Change Agreement$0
  HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term — yr · source

No reported violations as of last sync.

• Clean Air Act permitted sourceIL000031440AVZ
  NAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

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, Graham R Training Center in Chicago, is 0.5 mi from this site. 7 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.