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
- Metro Edge Development Partners
- Address and locality
- 1951 W Hastings St · Chicago · Cook County · Illinois · 60608
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 53 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 31 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000954
What the source record says
Operator's current project page states "4 story, 174,900 SF" and "53 MW in total power from ComEd, 28 MW initial phase"; the 2022 announcement described a 21MW five-storey building, so the design grew. Status is the weakest link here — neither operator page states a live date, and confidence is set to reported accordingly. 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 permitted
75-year ground lease executed on the Illinois Medical District parcel and planning/permitting begun; a 2023 state Data Center Investment Program MOU is on record.
Sources and attribution
- Metro Edge Development Partners Secures Land in Chicago for 21MW Data Center · Metro Edge Development Partners
- Metro Edge projects — IMD1 data center · Metro Edge Development Partners
- Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report (MEDP Mission Critical Facility, LLC dba Metro Edge, Chicago, 2023 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 metro-edge-imd1-chicago-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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