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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Pioneer Development LLC
- Address and locality
- Yorkville · Kendall County · Illinois
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,800 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 3 August 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001158
What the source record says
Coordinates approximate NW of IL Rt 47 and Galena Rd in Yorkville; exact parcel spans ~1,037 acres. 14 two-story buildings at 17 million sq ft total. No confirmed hyperscale tenant named. Companion project 'Project Steel' (Prologis, 540 acres, 24 buildings) also approved in same Yorkville corridor. First data center operational target: 2029.
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
- 2025 · reported proposed
Pioneer Development LLC submitted annexation, rezoning, and utility applications to City of Yorkville for 1,037-acre, 14-building campus
- 2026-03 · reported permitted
Yorkville City Council approved annexation, rezoning, utility, and infrastructure agreements 12:51 a.m. March 11 after nearly 6-hour meeting; air-cooled design with daily water use capped at approximately 42,500 gpd
Sources and attribution
- Project Cardinal Data Center Campus — City of Yorkville official permit page · City of Yorkville, IL
- Yorkville data center approval after nearly 6-hour contentious City Council meeting · Shaw Local / Kendall County Now
- Yorkville residents file lawsuit to halt Project Cardinal data center · Shaw Local / Kendall County Now
- Yorkville council to consider settlement in Project Cardinal lawsuit · Yorkville Herald
- Illinois Data Center Boom: $20B+ Approved in Two Weeks · PoweredByWho
- Which Illinois town approved what could be the state's largest data center? · Yahoo News
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID project-cardinal-yorkville-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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