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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Eagle Rock Partners
- Address and locality
- Clarksdale · Christian County · Illinois
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,000 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 18 July 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000518
What the source record says
Proposed 475-acre, 10-building (100MW each, ~1,000MW total) data center campus in unincorporated Christian County, ~2 miles southwest of Taylorville near Clarksdale. Estimated cost $6B-$8.8B. Earliest construction would not begin before 2028-2029. No formal application had been filed with the county as of the board's first briefing on the proposal; zoning board and county board votes are still pending. Not yet listed on major public data center trackers.
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
- 2026-06-16 · reported proposed
Eagle Rock Partners made its first official appearance before the Christian County Board on June 16, 2026 to present the Meridian Technology Park proposal; no formal application had been submitted as of the county board's initial discussion, and votes by the Zoning Board and County Board remain pending.
Sources and attribution
- Eagle Rock Partners Proposes $8.8B, 1GW Data Center Campus in Christian County, Illinois · MLQ News
- Property developer Eagle Rock proposes 1GW data center in Christian County, Illinois · Data Center Dynamics
- Christian County Board approves agreements, hears public comment · The Breeze Courier
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID eagle-rock-meridian-technology-park-taylorville-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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