Data center · Cook County, Illinois, United States

Digital Realty ORD11 data center

Digital Realty ORD11 data center is a data center in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with an 845 m² building, operated by Digital Realty Trust. It is in an area of high water stress.

Power and water

Water stress here is high: withdrawals take 54% of the renewable water supply of its sub-basin (WRI Aqueduct 4.0, baseline, score 3.4 of 5).

Distances run between the points of the records. How the grid and plants nearby are found; water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0.

Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Cook County, Illinois	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Address	600 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL 60605	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Digital Realty Trust	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Water stress	High (40–80%) (score 3.4 of 5, withdrawals 54% of renewable supply)	WRI Aqueduct 4.0 · CC BY 4.0 · checked 25 Oct 2026
Building footprint	845 m² (building)	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026
Coordinates	41.8743, -87.6299	OpenStreetMap data centers · record · ODbL 1.0 · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How its operator compares

Digital Realty Trust operates 90 of the 1,336 data centers in the United States in our data with a named owner; 1 owner has more. Counts cover the data centers in our data that name an owner, holder or operator; an asset with several owners counts for each.

Operator in United States	Rank	Data centers	Share
Amazon Web Services	1st	149	11%
Digital Realty Trust	2nd	90	6.7%
Microsoft	3rd	66	4.9%
Amazon Data Services Inc.	4th	60	4.5%
Google	5th	58	4.3%

Nearby

Within 50 km of this data center: 6 power plants (3 operating, 2,389 MW), 3 mines and 2 AI supercomputers, measured from the coordinates in the facts above. The table shows the nearest 8, up to 3 per kind.

Name	Kind	Size	Status	Distance
McCook Quarry	Mine	—	Operating	18 km
Southeast Chicago Energy Project	Power plant	407 MW	Closed	19 km
Whiting Clean Energy	Power plant	577 MW	Operating	26 km
Argonne NL Polaris	AI supercomputer	706 H100e	Operating	34 km
Thornton Quarry	Mine	—	Operating	34 km
Vultr Chicago Cluster	AI supercomputer	3,964 H100e	Operating	39 km
Will County	Power plant	1,269 MW	Closed	45 km
Romeo Quarry	Mine	—	Operating	46 km

Operator and place

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Data on this page

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (Sep 2026). EIA-860 / 860M / 923, Public domain.
Epoch AI. Epoch AI supercomputers, CC BY 4.0.
Epoch AI. Epoch AI data centers, CC BY 4.0.
MSHA Mines Data Set. MSHA Mines Data Set, Public domain.
Texas Comptroller qualifying data centers. Texas Comptroller qualifying data centers, Public domain.
Virginia DEQ issued data center air permits. Virginia DEQ issued data center air permits, Public records.
Kuzma, S., M.F.P. Bierkens, S. Lakshman, T. Luo, L. Saccoccia, E. H. Sutanudjaja, and R. Van Beek. 2023. Aqueduct 4.0: Updated Decision-Relevant Global Water Risk Indicators. Technical Note. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. doi.org/10.46830/writn.23.00061. WRI Aqueduct 4.0, CC BY 4.0.