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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Rock Air Data Center Campus.
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Monarch Energy
- Official metro area
- Rockford, IL
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 1,400 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- 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-001014
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.
- Land area
- 1,300 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced jobs
- 100 permanent
- Announced
- June 2026
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Illinois Data Center Investment Program · Illinois · 2026 Open cited source →
What the source record says
Phased 1,400 MW campus on roughly 1,300 acres south of Chicago–Rockford International Airport. The state agreement requires the facility in service by 11 March 2031, carbon neutrality within two years of operations starting, a minimum 20-year operating term and at least 100 employees (74 operations, 20 maintenance, 6 executive). The investment amount in the published agreement is redacted; the program's statutory floor is $250 million, so no investment figure is recorded 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
- 2026-09-12 · source-reported proposed
State incentive agreement executed June 2026, before the program pause took effect on 1 July 2026; the City of Rockford was not a party to the agreement.
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.
- Incentive deal for proposed Rockford data center shows possible development timeline · Rockford News First
- Illinois Data Center Map — Monarch Rock Air Data Center Campus · dcmap.us
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID monarch-rock-air-rockford-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.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001014
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
- 8685 Friday Road, Rockford, IL (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Monarch Energy
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: June 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-09-12 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 1,300 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 1,400 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.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced jobs: 100 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 · Illinois · 2026
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-12
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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