Digital Crossroad
100 Digital Crossroad Drive · Hammond, Lake County, IN
Source: OpenStreetMap
Digital Crossroad is a mapped data center in Lake County, IN. DataCentersExposed has documented 180 MW of reported power capacity and a 116,014 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026
Overview
source: linkDigital Crossroad is a mapped data center in Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, with a reported footprint of 116,014 square feet. It draws power from Northern Indiana Public Service Company inside the MISO grid. Available records do not name an operator or ultimate corporate parent for the site.
The grid behind this site, right now
source: MISO · gridstatus- Natural Gas33.4%
- Coal28.2%
- Solar13.1%
- Imports11.0%
- Nuclear9.7%
- Other3.0%
- Wind1.6%
Real-time generation mix for the MISO grid this site draws from, as of Jul 15, 2026, 9:20 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: Google News- 1 Canadian Company Set to Make a Fortune From the $650 Billion Data Centre BuildoutThe Globe and Mail· Jul 14, 2026
- 1 Canadian Company Set to Soar From the $1 Trillion Data Centre BuildoutThe Globe and Mail· Jul 8, 2026
- Hammond Village Board agrees to file injunction challenging conditional use permit for data centerHudson Star Observer· Jul 7, 2026
- Hammond Announces Expiration Of $7B Data Center Development AgreementInkFreeNews.com· Jul 3, 2026
- Development agreement for $7B data center in Hammond expiresInside INdiana Business· Jul 1, 2026
- Hammond data center expansion plan ends as developer fails to meet deadlinenwitimes.com· Jul 1, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No 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.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 175 MW (interconnection capacity): 1.8 L/kWh cooling (temperate climate) + 0.55 gal/kWh embedded in MISO 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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe nearest public school, Sadlowski Elementary School in Chicago, is 0.4 mi from this site (625 students). 4 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).
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.