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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Iron Mountain Data Centers
- Address and locality
- 1680 Touhy Ave · Des Plaines · Cook County · Illinois · 60018
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 36 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 31 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000819
What the source record says
13-acre campus, 315,000 sq ft with four planned 28,000 sq ft data halls; operator states a "36MW IT load design" being built out in phases. Subsidy value is the state's estimated tax benefit on a $320,000,000 investment commitment. Coordinates geocoded from the published street address.
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
- 2026-08-31 · reported operational
Operator states the facility is accepting customers with 12MW available for immediate deployment.
Sources and attribution
- Iron Mountain Chicago data center (CHI-1), Des Plaines · Iron Mountain
- Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report (Iron Mountain Data Centers, LLC, Des Plaines, 2024 MOU) · Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID iron-mountain-chi1-des-plaines-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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