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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Hut 8 Corp
- Address and locality
- Latham · Logan County · Illinois
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 500 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 10 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000801
What the source record says
AI/cloud campus proposed near Latham in Logan County; estimated up to $65M/year in property tax revenue and a project labor agreement with local trades. landAcres omitted: the operator page states 50 acres while press accounts describe roughly 200 acres of farmland. Public-reception check (2026-09-10): Hut 8's own project page documents a real community-engagement process -- a public meeting before the Logan County Board's Zoning and Economic Development Committee (2026-01-05), a local radio interview (2026-01-15), and a community open house at the Lincoln Banquet Center (2026-02-04) -- but records no resident reaction, vote outcome, or opposition/support statement from any of those events. Checked: operator project page only; Logan County meeting minutes not checked.
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 proposed
Operator describes the project as in early development, not yet approved; local permitting and utility approvals outstanding
Sources and attribution
- Logan Prairie Data Center — Hut 8 · Hut 8 Corp
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID hut8-logan-prairie-latham-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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