Who owns Stream Chicago I?

Stream Chicago I is owned and operated by Stream Data Centers.

Has Stream Chicago I had environmental violations?

As of the latest EPA ECHO sync, no enforcement actions are on record for Stream Chicago I.

Where is Stream Chicago I located?

Stream Chicago I is in Elk Grove Village, Cook County, IL.

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Stream Chicago I

2080 Lunt Avenue · Elk Grove Village, Cook County, IL

Source: OpenStreetMap

Stream Chicago I is an operating data center in Cook County, IL, operated by Stream Data Centers. DataCentersExposed has documented a 120,616 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Est. capacity

~20-50 MW

Footprint

120,616 sq ft

Interconnection

~37 MW

Utility

Commonwealth Edison Co

Grid

PJM

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Overview

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Stream Chicago I is an operating colocation data center in Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Illinois, run by Stream Data Centers. Its reported footprint is 120,616 square feet. The site draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co inside the PJM grid.

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In the news

source: Google News

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)

$2.4M to $6.1M/yr

An estimated ~20 to 50 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

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

$59.9K

People of color

92%

Below poverty

21%

Tract population

4,284

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, Friendship Jr High School in Des Plaines, is 1.9 mi from this site (617 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.