Data Center Registry
Digital Realty ORD23
Northlake, Cook County, Illinois · All 63 Digital Realty sites
Digital Realty ORD23 is an operating data center in Northlake, Illinois (Cook County), operated by Digital Realty.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- Digital Realty
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 505 N Railroad Avenue, Northlake, Cook County, IL, 60164
- Coordinates
- 41.9197, -87.9129
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- Not established from a public source
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Not established from a public source
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- 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
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- September 25, 2026OperatingActively marketed, operating Digital Realty facility per the operator's detail page. Source: Digital Realty
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of September 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Digital Realty ORD23 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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Notes on the record
186,500 sq ft single-story building. The operator's index page prints the address as 3505 North Railroad Avenue while the ORD23 detail page prints 505 North Railroad Avenue; the detail page value is used here and the discrepancy is unresolved.
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.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- Land area
- How the community has received it
- Which utility serves it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- 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.
- Land area
- The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with the county.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
- Which utility serves it
- The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.
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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 · 158 MW
- Aligned ORD-01 · Northlake · Aligned Data Centersunder 1 mile · Operating · 48 MW
- T5 @ Chicago III (Northlake) · Northlake · T5 Data Centersunder 1 mile · Under construction · 36 MW
- Aligned ORD-02 · Northlake · Aligned Data Centersunder 1 mile · Operating
- Digital Realty ORD14 · Franklin Park · Digital Realty3 mi · Operating
- Digital Realty ORD13 · Franklin Park · Digital Realty3 mi · Operating
- Element Critical Chicago Two · Wood Dale · Element Critical5 mi · Operating · 5 MW
- Element Critical Chicago One · Wood Dale · Element Critical5 mi · Operating · 7 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Digital Realty ORD23 data center in Northlake?
Nothing on record as of September 25, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Digital Realty ORD23 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 Digital Realty ORD23 data center?
No lawsuit over Digital Realty ORD23 appears in the record we track as of September 25, 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 Digital Realty ORD23 use?
No water withdrawal figure for Digital Realty ORD23 is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Digital Realty ORD23, and how big is it?
Digital Realty is the operator on record. We hold 63 sites for that company across the registry. No capacity figure is on record for this site.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Digital Realty ORD23," updated September 25, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/digital-realty-ord23-northlake-il.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/digital-realty-ord23-northlake-il, retrieved October 1, 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.Digital Realty ORD23 to 505 North Railroad Avenue, Northlake, IL 60164 (186,500 sq ft) · Digital Realty · retrieved September 25, 2026
- 2.Digital Realty Chicago metro data center index · Digital Realty · retrieved September 25, 2026
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