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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Aligned Coal City Campus.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Aligned Data Centers
- Address and locality
- Coal City · Grundy County · Illinois
- Official metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000033
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- ComEd
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Reported water use
- 0.0415 million gallons per day (source-reported)
- Land area
- 305 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 300 permanent · 2,000 construction
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- Announced
- 25 November 2024
Provider notes
Energy. Developer-funded substation and switchyard connecting directly to the regional transmission system, described as at no cost to ratepayers.
Water. Air-cooled heat rejection with a sealed closed-loop water circuit; projected water use roughly 41,500 gallons per day.
Community. Local coverage reports pushback over proximity to residential zones, Coal City Middle School and the Early Childhood Center; a Change.org petition opposes the campus. Aligned held a public open house on 5 August 2026.
What the source record says
Roughly 305 acres in the Coal City industrial park near the southeast corner of Reed and Carbon Hill Roads, with Aligned Data Centers (Acquisition) PropCo, LLC as operator and The Reed Group, LLC as the local landowner/developer. Investment is described only as 'multi-billions of dollars' by the developer, so no figure is recorded. Distinct from the three tracked Aligned ORD buildings in Northlake and Elk Grove Village.
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
- 2026-09-12 · source-reported proposed
Village Board adopted non-binding TIF inducement resolutions 26-09 and 26-10 on 24 June 2026; no TIF district, redevelopment agreement or zoning approval has been granted.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- A Multi-Billion-Dollar Data Center Takes a Step Forward in Coal City · Obedio
- Aligned Data Centers Hosts Open House to Discuss Coal City Campus Plans · Shaw Local / Daily Journal
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID aligned-coal-city-il. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000033
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Coal City, IL · Grundy (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Aligned Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: 25 November 2024
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-09-12 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 305 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: ComEd
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
- Reported water use: 0.0415 million gallons per day (source-reported)
Whether this is metered use, a permit limit or a request is not established; see the provider water note.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 300 permanent · 2,000 construction
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-12
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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