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STACK Chicago CHI01

Cook County, IL

Source: OpenStreetMap

STACK Chicago CHI01 is a mapped data center in Cook County, IL, operated by Stack Infrastructure, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 298,471 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

Real parent
Stack Infrastructure, Inc.
Operator
Stack Infrastructure, Inc.
Est. capacity
~55-120 MW
Footprint
298,471 sq ft
Interconnection
~37 MW
Utility
Commonwealth Edison Co
Grid
PJM
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

STACK Chicago CHI01 is a mapped colocation data center in Cook County, Illinois, operated by Stack Infrastructure, Inc. The site covers 298,471 square feet and draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co within the PJM grid. It is documented in public records as a Stack Infrastructure data center.

Operator chain

Data-center discussions in Cook 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.

Chicago Board Of Education
Dec 5, 2018 · 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~693K gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~337.8K gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~355.2K gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 37 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)
$6.7M to $14.6M/yr

An estimated ~55 to 120 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
$80.6K
People of color
27%
Below poverty
7%
Tract population
6,855

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, Ridge Family Center For Learning in Elk Grove Village, is 1.3 mi from this site (225 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.