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CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3

CyrusOne lists a data center at Aurora, Illinois among the sites it operates. It is reported; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.

How much power it needs, how much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.

Last verified · 14 sources, 2 primary · A skeleton record: built from one source, not yet reviewed in depth by a person. · How to read this page

How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.

What is known

Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.

Land
280 acres
third party estimate [14]
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
CyrusOne
as stated by the source
Who would use it
Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs
Not disclosed
Tax each year
Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)

Impact figures

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
How much power it needs Not disclosed
How much water it would use Not disclosed
How loud it would be Not disclosed
Jobs once it runs Not disclosed
Tax it would pay each year Not disclosed

The record's fields

FieldValueWho says soSourceLast verified
Who is building it CyrusOne as stated by the source September 25, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land 280 acres third party estimate [14] illinoistimes.com September 25, 2026
Where its power comes from Not disclosed
Grid connection Not disclosed
How it is cooled Not disclosed

The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.

Still not public, and where it would show up

The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.

  • Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
  • Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
  • Power the campus would drawA utility or public service commission docket, an interconnection filing, or an air permit for an on site plant.
  • Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.

What happened

No dated entry is on the record yet.

2 corrections to this record

Every correction, with its reason
  1. · the speaker role of a statements row

    Speaker read again from the statement's source line, "Governor JB Pritzker": the title in front of the name (Governor) is the role, not part of the name. The old and new text.

  2. · the speaker of a statements row

    Speaker read again from the statement's source line, "Governor JB Pritzker": the title in front of the name (Governor) is the role, not part of the name. The old and new text.

Every correction on the record is on the corrections page.

What was said

CyrusOne secured a tax break before Governor JB Pritzker used executive authority to pause a state program providing deals to developers
JB Pritzker, Governor · September 23, 2026 · paraphrased · Illinois Times local outlet

Every statement about data centers in Illinois, by speaker

The site

Where in Aurora is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of Aurora, not a building, and the outline is Kane County.

  • This record: Proposed, ringed
  • data center
  • Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
  • Smaller pins: 26 other published records in Illinois
Details
  • this record's location, ringed
  • parcel outline, from the county parcel record
  • city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
  • county boundary

The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.

Where
Aurora, Kane County, Illinois
How exactly it is located
Town level, the center of the city
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.

Questions about this project

5 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

How big is CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3?

The record has one measure of its size: 280 acres (third party estimate, source). Its power capacity is not disclosed.

Who is building CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3?

CyrusOne is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.

How much power and water does CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3 say it needs?

Power: not disclosed by any source on file. Water: not disclosed by any source on file.

Where does CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3 stand today?

It is reported; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. No dated entry is on the record yet.

What has Aurora or Kane County decided about it?

No decision by Aurora or Kane County about data centers is on the record. The Kane County page and the Illinois scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.

Sources

Primary documents first: filings, minutes, dockets and official pages. Then reporting. The numbers are the ones the entries above cite.

Primary documents

  1. CyrusOne: Data centers, CyrusOne, September 14, 2026
  2. CyrusOne: CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3, CyrusOne, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. CyrusOne breaks ground on 40MW Illinois data center campus - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, October 4, 2024, query feed
  2. Holmes celebrates new CyrusOne data center in Aurora - Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus, Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus, October 4, 2024, query feed
  3. Emergency repair work happening Thursday at CyrusOne data center in Aurora after weather delays - chicagotribune.com, chicagotribune.com, August 13, 2025, query feed
  4. Gov. Pritzker Celebrates New CyrusOne Data Center Groundbreaking - RiverBender.com, RiverBender.com, October 2, 2024, query feed
  5. CyrusOne receives rezoning approval for data center campus outside Chicago, Illinois - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, June 26, 2024, query feed
  6. CyrusOne Plans Campus With 2 Data Centers, 3 Towers Near Chicago - bisnow.com, bisnow.com, June 3, 2024, query feed
  7. CyrusOne Kicks Off Chicago Data Center Campus - CommercialSearch, CommercialSearch, October 4, 2024, query feed
  8. CyrusOne Breaks Ground on New Data Center in Aurora - citybiz, citybiz, October 2, 2024, query feed
  9. CyrusOne files for nine-building data center campus outside Chicago, Illinois - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, June 10, 2024, query feed
  10. CyrusOne breaks ground on new data center campus in Aurora - WSPYnews.com, WSPYnews.com, October 3, 2024, query feed
  11. CyrusOne prepares for $350 million Aurora data center campus - Chicago Construction News, Chicago Construction News, October 8, 2024, query feed
  12. County Board defends data center approval in court - Illinois Times, Illinois Times, September 23, 2026, local outlet

14 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/cyrusone-aurora-chi1-chi3-il, last verified September 25, 2026.

Last verified , first recorded . Every correction is logged on the corrections page and under What happened.

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Data Center Record, "CyrusOne Aurora CHI1-CHI3", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/cyrusone-aurora-chi1-chi3-il. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.

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Slug
cyrusone-aurora-chi1-chi3-il
Status value
rumored
Stage
Proposed
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/il/kane-county/aurora
Coordinates
41.7636429, -88.2901318
Location precision
city
Location source
U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
Coordinate source
tigerweb city centroid
Location source number
Not disclosed
Location last verified
September 14, 2026
EPA registry id
Not disclosed
Use type values
not_disclosed
Tenancy value
not_disclosed
Cooling type value
not_disclosed
Capacity basis
not_disclosed
Water basis
not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
Acreage basis
third_party_estimate
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-09-25