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T5 Chicago II

200 Innovation Drive · Elk Grove Village, Cook County, IL

Source: OpenStreetMap

T5 Chicago II is an operating data center in Cook County, IL. DataCentersExposed has documented 36 MW of reported power capacity and a 163,237 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 18, 2026

Real parent
Operator
Power
36 MW
Footprint
163,237 sq ft
Utility
Commonwealth Edison Co
Grid
PJM
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source

Overview

source: link

T5 Chicago II is an operating data center in Elk Grove Village, Cook County, Illinois, run by T5 Data Centers. The site covers a reported 163,237 square feet. It draws power from Commonwealth Edison Co within the PJM grid. Available records do not name an ultimate parent above T5 Data Centers.

Grid & water — why here

source: HIFLD · EPA
Nearest substation
0.2 mi
Tap137926 · 138 kV
Transmission line
0.2 mi
345 kV line
Municipal water
Served
Elk Grove Village (modeled boundary)

The 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.

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

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Environmental permits

source: Permit register
  • Clean Air Act permitted sourceIL000031804ACM
    NAICS 339999 518210; ECHO compliance status: No Violation Identified

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
$4.4M/yr

36 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: 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
$86.8K
People of color
37%
Below poverty
7%
Tract population
4,473

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, Rupley Elem School in Elk Grove Village, is 0.5 mi from this site (260 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.

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