This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Aligned Data Centers
- Address and locality
- 501 Northwest Ave · Northlake · Cook County · Illinois · 60164
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000043
What the source record says
Second Aligned building on the Northlake campus, adjacent to ORD-01 at 505 Northwest Ave. Tier III design, 100% uptime SLA. Operator page does not publish MW.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-08-17 · reported operational
Listed as an operating campus on Aligned's Chicago page; described as the first facility achieving OCP Ready for Hyperscale
Sources and attribution
- Aligned Data Centers — Chicago (ORD) campuses · Aligned Data Centers
- Sustainable, AI-Ready Data Centers in Chicago, IL — ORD-02 (501 Northwest Ave, Northlake) specifications · Aligned Data Centers
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aligned-ord-02-northlake-il. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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