Digital Realty ORD10
350 East Cermak Road · Chicago, Cook County, IL
Source: OpenStreetMap
Digital Realty ORD10 is an operating data center in Cook County, IL, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc..
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
Overview
source: linkDigital Realty ORD10 is an operating colocation data center in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. The site draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co within the PJM grid. Available records do not disclose a separate ultimate parent above Digital Realty Trust.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentDigital Realty Trust, Inc.
- Files asDigital Realty Trust, Inc.
- This facilityDigital Realty ORD10
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- The PlatformDIGITAL data center - Digital Realty Trust bets on scalable interconnection for US enterAd-hoc-news.de· Jul 7, 2026
- Is Digital Realty Trust Stock Worth Retaining in Your Portfolio?TradingView· Jul 3, 2026
- The Colocation Services by Digital Realty - Enterprise customers get flexible data center capacityAd-hoc-news.de· Jun 30, 2026
- Digital Realty Trust highlights data center growth while investors track U.S. market peersAd-hoc-news.de· Jun 30, 2026
- Illinois Battles to Regulate Data Centers, Water Use, and Protect Consumers from Exploding Utility BillsThe Fulcrum· May 23, 2026
- Elk Grove Village mayor defends data centers at packed community hearingChicago Tribune· May 21, 2026
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.
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.
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.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 5 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 ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
What this site costs the grid
source: PJM RPM auction reportsPJM'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 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, Graham R Training Center in Chicago, is 0.4 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).
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.