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Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01)

Aurora, DuPage County, Illinois · All 3 Edged US sites

Under constructionMixed receptionAI confirmedRecord updated July 23, 2026

Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) is a data center under construction in Aurora, Illinois (DuPage County), operated by Edged US. The public record puts it at announced November 2025, 72 MW planned. It has documented support and documented opposition on record.

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

Under construction

Operator
Edged US
Facility type
Data center, AI use confirmed
Location
Aurora, DuPage County, IL
Coordinates
41.7900, -88.2840
Power capacity
72 MW planned
Land
Not established from a public source
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
November 2025
Utility
ComEd
Power source
Grid
Cooling
Closed loop
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
Mixed reception
Source confidence
Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

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.

  1. November 2025
    Under construction
    Groundbreaking for second AI-focused building November 2025; scheduled for Q2 2027 operational status Source: Edged US
  2. February 2025
    Operating
    First 24 MW building (ORD01-1) opened February 27, 2025 Source: Edged US

Opposition and litigation at this site

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) in Aurora, DuPage County, Illinois appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Aurora officials approved the Edged campus (rezoning + preliminary plan) and the state EDC lists it as an economic-development win, but city-wide data-center concern led Aurora to pass some of Illinois's strongest data-center regulations in March 2026 (sound limits, resource-consumption reporting, mandatory council approval, a prior moratorium).

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: mixed reception means documented support and documented opposition both exist with no clear majority position on record.

Aurora officials approved the Edged campus (rezoning + preliminary plan) and the state EDC lists it as an economic-development win, but city-wide data-center concern led Aurora to pass some of Illinois's strongest data-center regulations in March 2026 (sound limits, resource-consumption reporting, mandatory council approval, a prior moratorium). No Edged-specific organized opposition identified.

Source: NPR Illinois

Power and water

Grid-connected; proprietary waterless cooling eliminates cooling-related energy overhead

ThermalWorks liquid-to-chip cooling exceeding 200 kW per rack; zero water consumption for cooling; saves 277M+ gallons annually vs conventional data centers

Notes on the record

Address: 2835 Bilter Rd, Aurora IL (DuPage County). Total campus planned at 96 MW across three buildings. Explicitly purpose-built for high-density AI workloads. Coordinates approximate for Bilter Rd area of north Aurora; address confirmed in operator press release. A confirmed capex figure of ~$300M covers the first building (ORD01-1) only, not the ~96 MW three-building campus; construction-workforce figures (~2,000 full campus) are projections. No Illinois DCEO data-center exemption certification was found for Edged.

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
  • Land area
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.
Land area
The rezoning application, the plat, or the deed recorded with 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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) in Aurora?

Partly. Both documented support and documented opposition to Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) in Aurora, DuPage County, Illinois appear in the record, with no clear majority position. Aurora officials approved the Edged campus (rezoning + preliminary plan) and the state EDC lists it as an economic-development win, but city-wide data-center concern led Aurora to pass some of Illinois's strongest data-center regulations in March 2026 (sound limits, resource-consumption reporting, mandatory council approval, a prior moratorium).

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01)?

No lawsuit over Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) appears in the record we track as of July 23, 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 Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, 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 Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01), and how big is it?

Edged US is the operator on record. We hold 3 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 72 MW.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Edged Chicago Campus, Aurora (ORD01)," updated July 23, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/edged-aurora-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/edged-aurora-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. 1.Edged US Expands Chicagoland Campus with Second AI Data Center Groundbreaking · Edged US · retrieved July 6, 2026
  2. 2.Aurora passes some of the strongest data center regulations in Illinois · NPR Illinois · retrieved July 7, 2026
  3. 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026

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