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Meta DeKalb Data Center

Meta lists a data center at DeKalb, Illinois among the sites it operates. It is running; 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 · 11 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
Not disclosed
Power it would draw
Not disclosed
Water
Not disclosed
Who leads it
Meta
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 Meta as stated by the source October 4, 2026
Who is constructing it Not disclosed
How much land Not disclosed
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

  1. · Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)

    Meta lists Meta DeKalb Data Center at DeKalb, Illinois on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

The full Meta DeKalb Data Center timeline, in order

The site

The pin is the site, as the EPA's facility record places it. Location from an EPA air permit.

  • This record: Running, ringed
  • data center
  • 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
Gurler RD, Dekalb, IL 60115, DeKalb, DeKalb County, Illinois [source]
How exactly it is located
Exact, the point of the EPA's facility record
The parcel
No parcel outline in the public record
Nearest homes
Not computed for a record placed at a place center
Nearest records
By the straight line between two exact points.

Keep going

The county DeKalb County 1 project on the record. The state Data centers in Illinois Every Illinois project, the rules on the record and what comes next.

Questions about this project

4 questions answered from the record

Answered from the rows on this page.

Who is building Meta DeKalb Data Center?

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

How much power and water does Meta DeKalb Data Center say it needs?

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

Where does Meta DeKalb Data Center stand today?

It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: Meta lists Meta DeKalb Data Center at DeKalb, Illinois on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [2]

What has DeKalb or DeKalb County decided about it?

No decision by DeKalb or DeKalb County about data centers is on the record. The DeKalb 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. EPA ECHO detailed facility report: Goldframe LLC, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  2. Meta: Our U.S. data center fleet, Meta, September 14, 2026

Reporting

  1. Inside secret contracts used to entice Facebook, Kraft Heinz, Ferrara Candy Co., Amazon to DeKalb - Shaw Local, Shaw Local, December 17, 2023, query feed
  2. ChicagoWest Business Center welcomes Meta to DeKalb - REJournals, REJournals, December 1, 2023, query feed
  3. Photos: Meta announces expansion at DeKalb Data Center - Shaw Local, Shaw Local, April 27, 2022, query feed
  4. Meta property boosts tax base for now: DeKalb County officials - Shaw Local, Shaw Local, October 12, 2024, query feed
  5. Meta Plans to Expand DeKalb, Illinois Data Center for Total Investment of $1B - REBusinessOnline, REBusinessOnline, April 29, 2022, query feed
  6. Worker trapped inside shipping container at Facebook/Meta data center construction site - Data Center Dynamics, Data Center Dynamics, November 18, 2021, query feed
  7. Meta Data Center in DeKalb now operational - WSPYnews.com, WSPYnews.com, December 1, 2023, query feed
  8. Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers - Data Center Frontier, Data Center Frontier, April 27, 2022, query feed
  9. Facebook parent Meta goes mega with Illinois data center - Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's Chicago Business, April 27, 2022, query feed

11 sources on file.

Cite this record

Data Center Record, "Meta DeKalb Data Center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/meta-dekalb-data-center-il, last verified October 4, 2026.

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Slug
meta-dekalb-data-center-il
Status value
operational
Stage
Running
Tier
skeleton
Tags
skeleton
Place id
us/il/dekalb-county/dekalb
Coordinates
41.890073, -88.727057
Location precision
permit_point
Location source
https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110070836847
Coordinate source
https://echo.epa.gov/detailed-facility-report?fid=110070836847
Location source number
[1]
Location last verified
October 4, 2026
EPA registry id
110070836847
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
Not disclosed
Interconnection value
not_disclosed
Capacity, if disclosed
Not disclosed
Rating of the county's rows
Not disclosed
Published
2026-09-14
Last verified
2026-10-04