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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Monarch Energy
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001014
What the source record says
Phased 1,400 MW campus on roughly 1,300 acres south of Chicago–Rockford International Airport. The state agreement requires the facility in service by 11 March 2031, carbon neutrality within two years of operations starting, a minimum 20-year operating term and at least 100 employees (74 operations, 20 maintenance, 6 executive). The investment amount in the published agreement is redacted; the program's statutory floor is $250 million, so no investment figure is recorded here.
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
- 2026-09-12 · reported proposed
State incentive agreement executed June 2026, before the program pause took effect on 1 July 2026; the City of Rockford was not a party to the agreement.
Sources and attribution
- Incentive deal for proposed Rockford data center shows possible development timeline · Rockford News First
- Illinois Data Center Map — Monarch Rock Air Data Center Campus · dcmap.us
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID monarch-rock-air-rockford-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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