Edged Chicago ORD01
DuPage County, IL
Source: OpenStreetMap
Edged Chicago ORD01 is a mapped data center in DuPage County, IL. DataCentersExposed has documented 72 MW of reported power capacity and a 116,197 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 18, 2026
Overview
source: linkEdged Chicago ORD01 is a mapped data center in DuPage County, Illinois, operated under the Edged data center brand. Its reported footprint is 116,197 square feet. The site draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co inside the PJM grid. Ownership above the Edged operation is not disclosed in available records.
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- Edged tops out second building at Chicago data center campus, IllinoisData Center Dynamics· Jun 5, 2026
- Edged breaks ground on second Chicago data centerData Center Dynamics· Nov 18, 2025
- BlackRock-Led Consortium to Acquire Aligned Data Centers in $40 Billion AI Infrastructure DealData Center Frontier· Oct 16, 2025
- Cities With The Most Data Centers24/7 Wall St.· Apr 29, 2025
- Edged launches first phase of 96MW Chicago data center campusData Center Dynamics· Feb 27, 2025
- Colovore to develop liquid-cooled data centers in Reno and ChicagoData Center Dynamics· Nov 20, 2024
Data-center discussions in DuPage 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 17 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.
Environmental permits
source: Permit register- Clean Air Act permitted sourceIL000043407AEANAICS 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified
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 →
72 MW of load at the zone's $333/MW-day, annualized — the capacity charge a load this size carries at the current auction price.
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 (Aurora and Elgin), 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, Metea Valley High School in Aurora, is 1.1 mi from this site (2,715 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.