Data Center Registry
Aligned ORD-01
Northlake, Cook County, Illinois · All 22 Aligned Data Centers sites
Aligned ORD-01 is an operating data center in Northlake, Illinois (Cook County), operated by Aligned Data Centers. The public record puts it at 48 MW operating, 18.5 acres.
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Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Aligned Data Centers
- Facility type
- Data center, AI use likely
- Location
- 505 Northwest Ave, Northlake, Cook County, IL, 60164
- Coordinates
- 41.9140, -87.9175
- Power capacity
- 48 MW operating
- Land
- 18.5 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- ComEd
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Hybrid
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Aligned ORD-01 in Northlake, Cook County, Illinois appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Aligned's Chicagoland ORD-01 campus in Northlake draws redundant, critical power from two on-site substations (170 MW total capacity) fed by the Commonwealth Edison grid.
Delta Cube (Delta³) adiabatic, air-cooled modular cooling system (evaporative-assisted air).
Notes on the record
Confirmed via Aligned Chicago page and DatacenterDynamics ('Aligned completes first Chicago data center'); 505 Northwest Ave, Northlake, IL; 48MW, operational. AI/HPC (likely): Northlake ORD-01 hyperscale, adaptive AI/HPC cooling platform.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- Microsoft Northlake Data Center · Northlake · Microsoftunder 1 mile · Operating
- Aligned ORD-02 · Northlake · Aligned Data Centers1 mi · Operating
- T5 @ Chicago III (Northlake) · Northlake · T5 Data Centers1 mi · Under construction · 36 MW
- Element Critical Chicago Two · Wood Dale · Element Critical5 mi · Operating · 5 MW
- Element Critical Chicago One · Wood Dale · Element Critical5 mi · Operating · 7 MW
- CyrusOne Wood Dale Campus · Wood Dale · CyrusOne5 mi · Under construction · 18 MW
- Centersquare ORD2 (Elk Grove Village) · Elk Grove Village · Centersquare (Csquare)6 mi · Operating · 25.9 MW
- Digital Realty CH2 · Elk Grove Village · Digital Realty6 mi · Operating
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Aligned ORD-01 data center in Northlake?
Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Aligned ORD-01 in Northlake, Cook County, Illinois appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Aligned ORD-01 data center?
No lawsuit over Aligned ORD-01 appears in the record we track as of September 12, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Aligned ORD-01 use?
No water withdrawal figure for Aligned ORD-01 is on record here. Cooling is recorded as hybrid, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Aligned ORD-01, and how big is it?
Aligned Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 22 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 48 MW. The site is recorded at 18.5 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Aligned ORD-01," updated September 12, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/aligned-ord-01-il.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/aligned-ord-01-il, retrieved September 14, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Aligned facility directory · Aligned · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 2.OpenStreetMap way/1217649348 · OpenStreetMap · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 4.Aligned Chicago ORD-01 Spec Sheet · retrieved July 24, 2026 · original offline, archived copy from August 5, 2025
- 5.Aligned Chicago data centers page · retrieved July 24, 2026
- 6.Aligned Launches One Chicago Data Center and Breaks Ground on Another · Data Center Knowledge · retrieved August 3, 2026
- 7.Aligned Energy ORD-01 Chicago (Northlake, IL) · Datacenters.com · retrieved August 3, 2026
- 8.Aligned Launches One Chicago Data Center and Breaks Ground on Another · Data Center Knowledge · retrieved September 2, 2026
- 9.Sustainable, AI-Ready Data Centers in Chicago, IL, ORD-01, ORD-02 and ORD-03 addresses, campus sizes and cooling design · Aligned Data Centers · retrieved September 12, 2026
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