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
- Serverfarm
- Address and locality
- 840 South Canal Street · Chicago · Cook County · Illinois · 60607
- Lifecycle status
- reported operational
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Operational: 21.5 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 31 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001309
What the source record says
443,000 sq ft eight-storey building with 130,000 sq ft of data halls; 32MW utility power and 21.5MW IT power per the operator. Subsidy value is the state's estimated tax benefit (6.25% of a $285,000,000 investment commitment), not cash received. 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
Marketed as a fully modernised, live colocation environment on Serverfarm's own site page.
Sources and attribution
- Serverfarm CH1 Chicago data center · Serverfarm
- Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report (Serverfarm LLC dba SF CH1, LLC, 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 serverfarm-ch1-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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