HydraVault Chicago

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Reported geography

Source-reported location for HydraVault Chicago.

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Source row snapshot

Operator as published: HydraVault
Address and locality: 2538 South Wabash Avenue · Chicago · Cook County · Illinois · 60616
Official metro area: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
Source-reported status: under construction
Provider facility type: data center
Reported capacity: Planned: 20 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Source freshness: 15 October 2026
Location precision: approximate
Compute Atlas confidence label: confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
Stable directory ID: dcd-dir-000803

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.

Cooling: Closed-loopProvider label.
Announced investment: $270 millionAnnounced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Announced jobs: 20 permanentAnnounced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established. Open cited source →
AI-use label (provider): confirmedCompute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Announced: 28 October 2025Provider-reported announcement date.

Incentives reported by the source

Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.

Illinois Data Center Investment Program (sales/use tax exemption MOU) · Illinois · 2025 · $16.875 million (as stated) Open cited source →

Provider notes

Water. Operator describes a closed-loop waterless cooling design with hybrid air and liquid (direct-to-chip / rear-door heat exchanger) cooling; stated annualised PUE of 1.19.

What the source record says

Purpose-built for AI training/inference and low-latency trading, at densities up to 200kW per rack. Subsidy value is the state's estimated tax benefit on a $270,000,000 investment commitment. Coordinates geocoded from the published street address.

Capacity is not ranked or totaled here.

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

2025-10-28 · source-reported under construction
Construction permit secured; Power Construction Company commenced work immediately. Early user access targeted for December 2026.
Open cited source →

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.

HydraVault Secures Construction Permit for Downtown Chicago's First Purpose-Built AI Facility · HydraVault via PR Newswire
Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report (HydraVault LLC, Chicago, 2025 MOU) · Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID hydravault-chicago-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).

Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.

Operator’s own listing

What the operator publishes about this site on its own website, matched to this licensed row by DataCenterData. Facts are taken from the operator’s page, shown with a link to it, and not independently verified; no page text is republished and the licensed values above are unchanged. A match does not establish that the listing and this row cover exactly the same building, suite or boundary, or who owns the site.

Listed by HydraVault on its website (captured 6 October 2026)

Name as listed: HydraVault
Address as published: 2538 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60616

Status on the operator’s page: under construction. Normalized from the operator’s own wording; not independently verified. Open the operator’s page → Captured 6 October 2026.

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Open the operator’s page → captured 6 October 2026

Matched to this licensed row on identical full street address.

State or local registry record

What a state or local government record says naming this company in this city (no street is given in the record). The record is cited, not republished. It does not establish that a data center is operating, its capacity, or its owner or operator unless the record says that role. It is not added to the counts on this page.

Matched by name and city only. The government record names HydraVault LLC in Chicago and gives no street. It is shown here because this is the only published record with that name in that city; it may concern another site of the same company there.

HydraVault LLC

Publishing agency: Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Record type: state certification list
Named in the record: HydraVault LLC The record does not call this company the operator.
Location precision: Chicago only The record names a city and no street. It is not placed on the map and is not a distinct-site finding.
Registry table row: Row 32 on page 9 of Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report, MOU table (Illinois DCEO)
Company Name: HydraVault LLC
Site Location: Chicago
Year: 2025
The name, named party, locality and year were checked against this one row of the stored PDF table by word position; the table's money, benefit and job columns are not published. The year is the agreement year the table states, not an opening or operating date.

Factual fields cited to the named government page. DataCenterData does not republish the page or the underlying database. A permit, certification, tax status, or application does not by itself establish an operating data center.

What this record does not establish

That a permit, certification, tax status, or application means an operating data center.
Current IT capacity, utility load, or generation capacity.
Who operates the site. A company named in the record is not the operator unless the record says so.
Who owns the site.
Cooling redundancy. Mentioned equipment is not a design rating.
Whether the record covers one building, a campus, or a suite, beyond the unit label the record itself uses.

https://dceo.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/dceo/aboutdceo/reportsrequiredbystatute/2025-data-centers-annual-report.pdf captured 28 September 2026

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Recorded information

What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.

Licensed directory listing `dcd-dir-000803`

Licensed directory row. Licensed directory label. Source-reported and not independently verified.

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.
AI-use label (provider): confirmed
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.

Location and precision

2538 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616 · Cook (Approximate location)

Roles

Operator: HydraVault
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.

Lifecycle

Source-stated status: source-reported under construction
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
Announced: 28 October 2025
Provider-reported announcement date.
Status history: 2025-10-28 · source-reported under construction
Status history supplied by the source.

Power capacity

Reported capacity: Planned: 20 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.

Cooling, water, PUE and WUE

Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.

Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings

Announced investment: $270 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Announced jobs: 20 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
Incentive reported by the source: Illinois Data Center Investment Program (sales/use tax exemption MOU) · Illinois · 2025 · $16.875 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.

Sources, dates, limitations and corrections

Provider update date: 2026-10-15
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.

Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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.