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Reported geography
Source-reported location for QTS Chicago 1.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- QTS Data Centers
- Address and locality
- 2800 S Ashland Ave · Chicago · Cook County · Illinois · 60608
- Official metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001198
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.
- Announced investment
- $250 million
- Announced jobs
- 20 permanent
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 · 2021 · $15.625 million (as stated) Open cited source →
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- Cooling: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
What the source record says
30-acre campus; QTS describes a "Two building facility at full build-out" with "Pre-leasing is now available for our second building". The state report's estimated tax-benefit value is calculated at 6.25% of the $250,000,000 investment commitment, not money already received. Coordinates geocoded from the published street address.
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
- 2026-08-31 · source-reported operational
QTS markets the first building as live and is pre-leasing a second building on the same campus.
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.
- QTS Chicago data center campus · QTS Data Centers
- Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report (Quality Technology Service (QTS), Chicago, 2021 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 qts-chicago-1-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.
Federal registry record
What the U.S. EPA Facility Registry Service records at this street address, selected by DataCenterData from EPA’s ECHO Exporter. U.S. government data; not independently verified by DataCenterData. It does not establish who owns or operates the site, that the site is a data center, whether it is operating, its size, or whether the registration covers one building or a whole campus.
EPA lists a facility of QTS at 2800 S ASHLAND AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60608 under industry code 518210 (data processing, hosting); the registry does not say what the facility is.
- Name as registered
- QUALITY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LLC
- Address as registered
- 2800 S ASHLAND AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60608
- EPA registry ID
110064847019
One EPA registration; it may cover generators for a whole campus or a single building.
Registrations EPA lists for this ID
- Clean Air Act registration (stationary sources, typically standby generators)
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001198
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
- 2800 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60608 · Cook (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: QTS Data Centers
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026-08-31 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $250 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 · 2021 · $15.625 million (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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