Data center profile · Ridge Road and Wildy Road, Minooka (Grundy and Kendall counties), Illinois

Equinix Minooka Campus

Seven-building, 420 MW data-center campus on 373 acres in Minooka, Illinois, annexed and zoned Sept. 2025; no power contract or air permit on record.

Zoned, early site work. The village annexed and rezoned the site in Sept. 2025 and called the project approved; road construction on its frontage was scheduled to begin Oct. 15, 2026. No ComEd service agreement, air permit or tenant is on record.
The site before construction, Aerial photo, April 6, 2023
420 MW
campus capacity in the enterprise-zone application: seven buildings at 60 MW each
press reported a utility need of about 700 MW; IT capacity not stated
$5.4B
investment stated in the state enterprise-zone application
a Sept. 2026 policy report lists $2.0B; the filing figure is used here
373 acres
campus site, about two-thirds annexed into Minooka in Sept. 2025
press cites 300 to 340 acres
Oct. 15, 2026
road construction scheduled to begin on Ridge Road and Wildy Road
first physical work, as scheduled; main building construction slated for 2027 (press)
OperatorEquinix (Equinix LLC owns the land; Equinix Hyperscale 3 (CH8) LLC is the project entity)
CustomerNone named; Equinix builds for hyperscale customers through its xScale model
Planned IT capacity336 MW at full build-out (our estimate from the company's 420 MW campus power figure)
First building in serviceOur estimate: 2027 (range 2027 to 2028).
Next deadline2027: Main vertical construction slated to begin (press); full commissioning expected by 2031
From orbit

The site from above

Satellite overview1
Aerial photo, April 6, 2023. Pin: Minooka block, farmland.
From orbit

Minooka block

Views of the same ground from above on April 6, 2023 and Oct. 11, 2026. The later view comes from a lower-resolution satellite (10 m pixels), so it is much softer than the first. Drag to compare. What we count on the Oct. 11, 2026 image:

after
before
◀ Aerial photo, April 6, 2023Lower-resolution satellite image, Oct. 11, 2026 ▶
Power

Power and the grid

None energized or contracted yet

ComEd grid service via a new on-site substationPlanned, no agreement on record
420 MW
campus-stated total; press reported about 700 MW of electricity need; no utility-confirmed capacity or study result is public State agency · Aug. 2025
Proposed
Backup generators (emergency use, not a power supply)

Getting on the grid

Who supplies what, what it costs, and what is still not public.

  1. March 19, 2025
    Power not yet lined up
    An Equinix real-estate director says electricity and water are still being arranged; the need had risen from 600 to nearly 700 MW. News report · Oct. 2026
  2. Sept. 23, 2025
    Village plans an on-site substation
    The approved plan includes a ComEd substation on the campus. State agency · Aug. 2025
  3. March 19, 2026
    State sets large-load rules
    The Illinois Commerce Commission approves ComEd's tariff: customers back 80% of calculated demand for ten years and post collateral. State agency · March 2026
  4. As of Oct. 2026
    No agreement found
    No executed Equinix-ComEd security agreement exists in state or federal records; a blog claim of one is unsupported. see Permits
  5. Not set
    Utility capacity: unconfirmed
    Equinix has said it did not know whether ComEd could connect it to the high-capacity lines on the site's edge. News report · Oct. 2026
Permits

Permits checklist

6 granted · 3 checked, nothing on file

Approvals a campus like this normally needs (including an air permit for backup or on-site generators), and what we found.

Risks

What could slow it down

Money

Money on record

$5.4B
investment stated in the enterprise-zone application
includes land, construction and equipment State agency · Aug. 2025
$15B+
capital pool of the joint venture Equinix formed with GIC and CPP Investments
Minooka is not named as a venture asset in any filing SEC filing · Oct. 2024
25% / 37.5% / 37.5%
Equinix / GIC / CPP Investments stakes in that venture
its only disclosed asset sale is the Hampton campus (about $470M) SEC filing · Oct. 2024
80% for 10 years
ComEd's new large-load deal: share of calculated demand the customer backs
collateral scaled to credit rating; not shown to apply to Minooka State agency · March 2026
Timeline

What happened, and what is due

SitePaper trailConstructionPowerPermitsMoneyLegalUpcoming
  1. Oct. 1, 2024
    Site Equinix announces a $15B-plus xScale venture with GIC and CPP Investments SEC filing · Oct. 2024
  2. Jan. 23, 2025
    Site Equinix holds its first public proposal meeting in Minooka News report · Jan. 2025
  3. March 19, 2025
    Site Equinix says it needs nearly 700 MW and is still lining up electricity and water News report · March 2025
  4. Aug. 12, 2025
    Permits Enterprise-zone amendment approved 11-0, citing seven 60 MW buildings and a $5.4B investment State agency · Aug. 2025
  5. Sept. 9, 2025
    Permits Planning commission hears the plan with a noise study Local government · Sept. 2025
  6. Sept. 23, 2025
    Permits Village board takes up annexation, rezoning, development agreement and conditional use Local government · Sept. 2025
  7. Dec. 16, 2025
    Site A petition against the campus is published News report · Dec. 2025
  8. March 19, 2026
    Power Illinois approves ComEd's large-load tariff State agency · March 2026
  9. July 30, 2026
    Site Village publishes an FAQ on the approved data center Local government · July 2026
  10. Sept. 19, 2026
    Site Equinix executives tell investors Minooka is on track News report · Sept. 2026
  11. Oct. 15, 2026
    Site Road construction is scheduled to begin on the campus's west and north edges Local government · Oct. 2026
  12. 2027
    Site Main vertical construction slated to begin (press) News report · Oct. 2026
Construction activity

Satellite captures by quarter

Since April 2023: 4 satellite captures.

Satellite
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Dot size: records in the quarter, largest = 1. Two-digit years mark each first quarter.
The buildings

Specs

7 buildings
about 2 million sq ft total, built over roughly seven years
State agency · Aug. 2025
336 chillers
air-cooled units modeled in the noise study, with screen walls and baffles
Local government · Sept. 2025
~3M gallons a day
initial water need, about a third of Minooka's future allocation (press, Mar. 2025); later design cools half the servers with air only
News report · March 2025
150 jobs
expected, per the enterprise-zone application
State agency · Aug. 2025
44 dBA
nighttime noise limit the modeled design meets, except a limited stretch of the north line
Local government · Sept. 2025
Who is involved

Owners, partners and builders

Owners and developers
  • Equinix, Inc.: developer; Equinix LLC owns the land
  • AMER 3 Joint Venture: Equinix 25%, GIC 37.5%, CPP Investments 37.5% (Minooka not documented as an asset)
Decision-makers
  • Village of Minooka Village Board and Planning and Zoning Commission
  • Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority: enterprise zone
  • Illinois Commerce Commission: ComEd tariff
Power
  • Commonwealth Edison (ComEd): serving utility
  • Kendall Dynegy Energy: neighboring generating station
Consultants
  • Shen Milsom & Wilke: noise study for the village
Still unknown

Open questions

Where this comes from

184 records from 29 documents

Drawn from news reports, state agency records, local government records, public and commercial datasets, securities filings, satellite captures and court filings, each kept with its date and source. The bar shows documents by type.

News report 12State agency 5Local government 5Dataset 4SEC filing 2Satellite 1Court filing 1
Evidence

Every quote behind this page

Grade key: A = the primary record itself (permit, filing, exhibit) · B = a dated official statement · C = news reporting. Map distances are our own measurements on OpenStreetMap and carry no grade. Allegations in lawsuits are marked as such in the quotes.

Power (17)
  • Large-load tariff order: final order issued
    “Rider DE will now include standard facilities installed on premises along with additional construction or investment in [ComEd's] existing distribution system”
    State agency · March 2026 · grade A
  • Cooling design: Air-cooled chillers (336 York YVAM1500 units modeled) with modeled noise mitigation
    “Two primary scenarios were evaluated; (1) all 336 chillers operating and (2) all chillers operating and three emergency generators operating”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Stated campus size: 420 MW
    “Each of the seven buildings will have a power capacity of 60MW, totaling 420MW once the site is fully built out”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Utility: Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)
    “the site will also house a Com-Ed substation, stormwater detention infrastructure, a regional bike trail extension”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Power plan: Grid supply via new on-site ComEd substation; no on-site generation
    “the site will also house a Com-Ed substation, stormwater detention infrastructure, a regional bike trail extension”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Nearest power line of 345 kV or more: 0.54 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
    OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
  • Nearest substation of 345 kV or more: 0.45 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
    OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
  • Nearest gas pipeline: 0.82 km
    Measured on OpenStreetMap map data.
    OpenStreetMap · Oct. 2026
  • IT capacity: not stated
    “DOCUMENTED ABSENCE: no source opened — enterprise-zone application, Equinix SEC filings, ICC dockets, village records — states an IT (critical) load figure for this campus. The only primary-document capacity figure is the 420 MW campus-stated total, whose basis is unspecified.”
    State agency · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • Utility service: not stated
    “DOCUMENTED ABSENCE: no utility-contracted capacity or ComEd study result for this campus appears in any primary document opened. Press reported a ~700 MW electricity need (Chicago Tribune, Mar 2025) — a press estimate of need, not a utility figure, so”
    State agency · Oct. 2026 · grade B
  • On-site generation: not stated
    “Cummins Generator C3500 D6E, 3500 kW: Sound pressure Level of 87 dBA at 23 feet with a Level 1 sound-attenuated walk-in enclosure”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade B
  • On-site generation: 28 MW
    “Formula: 8 generators x 3.5 MW = 28 MW”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Utility service: 700 MW
    “the Minooka facility would need nearly 700 megawatts of electricity, up from the original forecast of 600 megawatts”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • A tariff blog asserts the Minooka project is backed by an executed Transmission Security Agreement
    “a 700 MW Equinix project in Minooka backed by a Transmission Security Agreement”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Interconnection status: ComEd TSA approved at FERC on Mar 10, 2026 (Equinix counterparty; EEI ties the TSA to the 700 MW Minooka project) - superseding Mar 2025 reporting that Equinix still awaited ComEd's answer on hook
    “The agreements are with Equinix, Grundy County Power, Karis Critical, PowerHouse Hillwood Holding and QTS Investment Properties Chicago.”
    News report · March 2026 · grade C
  • large load interconnection request: Transmission Security Agreement approved by FERC
    “The agreements are with Equinix, Grundy County Power, Karis Critical, PowerHouse Hillwood Holding and QTS Investment Properties Chicago.”
    News report · March 2026 · grade C
  • Data Center Watch briefing: local farmers and the Will County Governmental League raise water-allocation and power concerns over the proposal
    “a 340-acre data center that would use approximately 700 megawatts of electricity and 3 million gallons of water per day”
    News report · March 2025 · grade C
Money and contracts (24)
  • Transmission Security Agreement (tariff framework): minimum commitment 80 % of calculated demand
    “the Large Load Project Applicant or Customer would need to provide 80% of the calculated demand for a period of ten (10) years”
    State agency · March 2026 · grade A
  • Transmission Security Agreement (tariff framework): collateral Collateral amount scaled by the applicant's credit rating
    “with the amount of collateral it is required to post based on its credit rating”
    State agency · March 2026 · grade A
  • Transmission Security Agreement (tariff framework): condition precedent TSA to be filed with FERC shortly after ComEd completes an initial study of the proposed project
    “to be filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) shortly after ComEd completes an initial study of a proposed project”
    State agency · March 2026 · grade A
  • Rider DE (distribution extension terms): deposit / collateral 2000000 USD threshold
    “The Commission finds that it is just and reasonable for ComEd to accept an LOC when the costs of an extension exceed $2,000,000”
    State agency · March 2026 · grade A
  • AMER 3 Joint Venture: condition JV agreement subject to closing conditions at signing; venture formed Oct 30, 2024
    “On October 30, 2024, we formed a joint venture to develop and operate xScale data center campuses in the Americas region”
    SEC filing · Feb. 2026 · grade A
  • AMER 3 Joint Venture: scope limitation No campus sites are named in the JV documents and Minooka is not documented as a JV asset; the only JV asset transaction disclosed is Hampton (sold to the JV Jan 13, 2026 for an est
    “On January 13, 2026, we sold the assets and liabilities of the Hampton data center campus (Hampton) located in the greater Atlanta metro area to the AMER 3 Joint Venture”
    SEC filing · Feb. 2026 · grade A
  • Land purchase: scope 16929 N Ridge Rd farmstead parcel acquired in 2025 for incorporation into the data center project
    “Equinix LLC (2025) Acquisition for incorporation into data center project”
    State agency · Feb. 2026 · grade A
  • Annexation and Development Agreement: authorization
    “An Ordinance Authorizing the Execution of Annexation and Development Agreement (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Annexation ordinance: scope Annexes the remaining roughly two-thirds of the 373-acre site from unincorporated Kendall County into the Village
    “An Ordinance Annexing Certain Territory to the Village of Minooka, Will County, Grundy County, and Kendall County, State of Illinois (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Rezoning ordinance: scope Kendall County Agriculture and Minooka R-1 to Minooka DC Data Center District
    “An Ordinance Rezoning Certain Property within the Village of Minooka (Kendall County Agriculture and Minooka R-1 to Minooka DC Data Center District)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Conditional use / PUD approval: scope Conditional permitted use permit for a planned unit development and preliminary PUD plat
    “An Ordinance Granting a Conditional Permitted Use Permit for a Planned Unit Development and Approving a Preliminary PUD Plat (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Buildings: 7
    “Equinix will build seven data center facilities, totaling approximately 2 million square feet of floor area”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Floor area: 2000000 sq ft
    “Equinix will build seven data center facilities, totaling approximately 2 million square feet of floor area”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Investment: 5396173438 USD
    “The investment in the project is $5,396,173,438, including land acquisition, new construction, and new equipment”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Enterprise Zone amendment: scope 373-acre campus; $5,396,173,438 investment; 150 jobs; 7 buildings / ~2M sq ft
    “The investment in the project is $5,396,173,438, including land acquisition, new construction, and new equipment”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Enterprise Zone amendment: benefit Enterprise-zone benefits not offered under other state incentives for data center development
    “benefits afforded by the enterprise zone that are not offered under other state incentives for data center development”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Enterprise Zone amendment: schedule Public improvements from Sep 2025; data-center facilities from late 2025 over an estimated seven-year build
    “Equinix will begin constructing certain public improvements in September 2025, including access roads and stormwater detention infrastructure”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • AMER 3 Joint Venture: scope Capital pool over $15B; GIC 37.5%, CPP Investments 37.5%, Equinix 25%
    “CPP Investments and GIC will each control a 37.5% equity interest in the joint venture, and Equinix will own a 25% equity interest”
    SEC filing · Oct. 2024 · grade A
  • Annexation and Development Agreement: termination FINDING: executed agreement text not retrieved, the village document library is JS-gated; termination, condition and scope clauses are unverified. Flagged for coordinato
    “Public Hearing to consider the terms of a proposed Annexation and Development Agreement for the Equinix Project”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade B
  • Tenants: None named (Equinix colocation / xScale model)
    “the joint venture is intended to accelerate the Equinix xScale data center portfolio, which enables hyperscale companies to add core deployments”
    SEC filing · Oct. 2024 · grade B
  • Special Service Area: scope Special service area created for the Equinix Data Center campus north of Minooka; ordinance number and date not retrieved
    “The Minooka Village Board recently approved two items on the agenda that would create a special service area for the Equinix Data Center campus north of Minooka”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Transmission Security Agreement (campus status): scope No executed Equinix-ComEd TSA found in the ICC or FERC records searched; a blog claim that this project is backed by a TSA is unsupported
    “a 700 MW Equinix project in Minooka backed by a Transmission Security Agreement”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Tenant status: No tenant announced
    “Shaw said the Hampton and Minooka projects are currently on track, without providing further expansion details”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • Minooka and five other towns are building a $1.54B pipeline to draw Lake Michigan water through Chicago, due to open 2030; the campus's initial 3M gal/day equals about a third of Minooka's 9M gal/day allocation, and the
    “That's a third of all the drinkable water Minooka will be allowed to draw from a $1.54 billion pipeline”
    News report · March 2025 · grade C
Permits and government (16)
  • Public improvement construction notice: construction start notice issued
    “UPDATE: Due to additional contractor coordination, construction is now scheduled to begin Thursday, October 15, 2026”
    Local government · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • Annexation and development agreement: on Sep 23, 2025 board agenda for authorization (items 11A-11B); adoption corroborated by the Village FAQ description of the approved Equinix data center
    “An Ordinance Authorizing the Execution of Annexation and Development Agreement (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Annexation: ordinance on Sep 23, 2025 board agenda (item 11C)
    “An Ordinance Annexing Certain Territory to the Village of Minooka, Will County, Grundy County, and Kendall County, State of Illinois (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Rezoning: ordinance on Sep 23, 2025 board agenda (item 11D)
    “An Ordinance Rezoning Certain Property within the Village of Minooka (Kendall County Agriculture and Minooka R-1 to Minooka DC Data Center District)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Conditional use / PUD: ordinance on Sep 23, 2025 board agenda (item 11E)
    “An Ordinance Granting a Conditional Permitted Use Permit for a Planned Unit Development and Approving a Preliminary PUD Plat (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Village of Minooka Village Board: Equinix package, new business items 11A-11G (agreement hearing, annexation agreement, annexation, rezoning, conditional PUD, district guideline corrections)
    “An Ordinance Granting a Conditional Permitted Use Permit for a Planned Unit Development and Approving a Preliminary PUD Plat (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Village of Minooka Planning & Zoning Commission: Equinix PUD hearing packet including the SM&W acoustic evaluation
    “The Equinix site is bounded by the following properties: North: Wildy Road; East: Kendall Dynegy Energy; South: Holt Road; West: Ridge Road”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Acoustic study filing: study filed in the P&Z packet for the Sep 9, 2025 hearing
    “Two primary scenarios were evaluated; (1) all 336 chillers operating and (2) all chillers operating and three emergency generators operating”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Enterprise zone amendment: approved (roll call AYE 11 / NAY 0)
    “Ordinance No. 25-025 – An Ordinance to amend the UIRVDA Enterprise Zone on behalf of the Equinix data center project (Kendall County)”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Upper Illinois River Valley Development Authority Board: Ordinance No. 25-025, enterprise zone amendment for the Equinix project
    “Ordinance No. 25-025 – An Ordinance to amend the UIRVDA Enterprise Zone on behalf of the Equinix data center project (Kendall County)”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Data center district creation: adopted
    “(Ord. 2003-34, 8-26-2003; amd. Ord. 2024-50, 11-26-2024)”
    Local government · Nov. 2024 · grade B
  • Special service area: approved per press report; ordinance number and date not retrieved
    “The Minooka Village Board recently approved two items on the agenda that would create a special service area for the Equinix Data Center campus north of Minooka”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • ILEPI/PMCR Illinois data-center report (Sep 2026) tabulates Equinix Minooka at 700 MW, 340 acres, $2.0B cost and 150 jobs, the MW, acreage and cost figures conflict with the enterprise-zone application; see conflicts.cs
    “Equinix Minooka data center — Yes — 700 — 340 — $2,000,000,000 — 150”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • Site location: Approx 300-340 acres of farmland along Ridge Road between Holt Road and Wildy Roads, Minooka, IL (village planning record; Equinix LLC acquired the parcels in 2025, including the Harvey Farmstead, Kendall
    “The acquired properties are located along Ridge Road between Holt Road and Wildy Roads in Minooka.”
    News report · Sept. 2025 · grade C
  • Village of Minooka Board (committee meeting): Water and power review, Equinix presentations by Mickler and Baumann
    “Equinix cut its projected water use so dramatically by deciding to cool half of the servers in Minooka with air only instead of a combination of air and water”
    News report · March 2025 · grade C
  • Village of Minooka Board: First Equinix proposal meeting for the Minooka campus
    “On January 23, 2025, Equinix held its very first proposal meeting to discuss a potential state-of-the-art data center campus in Minooka”
    News report · Jan. 2025 · grade C
Legal (1)
  • Federal cases: not stated
    “Top results are Village of Minooka and Minooka school-district cases (N.D; Ill.)”
    Court filing · Oct. 2026 · grade B
Site and other (23)
  • Stage: Entitled and annexed (Sep 2025); early site and road works under way Oct 2026; vertical construction not yet evidenced
    “construction is now scheduled to begin Thursday, October 15, 2026. During construction hours, Ridge Road south of Wildy Road will be reduced to one lane”
    Local government · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • Construction stage: Early site works (Ridge Rd / Wildy Rd road construction from Oct 15, 2026); data-center building construction not evidenced
    “construction is now scheduled to begin Thursday, October 15, 2026. During construction hours, Ridge Road south of Wildy Road will be reduced to one lane”
    Local government · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • Village notice: construction on Ridge Road and Wildy Road, the campus's west and north frontage roads, begins Oct 15, 2026, with Ridge Road south of Wildy Road reduced to one lane
    “construction is now scheduled to begin Thursday, October 15, 2026”
    Local government · Oct. 2026 · grade A
  • Ch8 entity: Equinix Hyperscale 3 (CH8) LLC
    “Equinix Hyperscale 3 (CH8) LLC — listed in the subsidiary table with jurisdiction Delaware”
    SEC filing · Feb. 2026 · grade A
  • Owner entity: Equinix LLC
    “Owner / Occupant: Equinix LLC”
    State agency · Feb. 2026 · grade A
  • Address: 16929 North Ridge Road, Minooka, IL 60447 (Harvey Farmstead parcel inside the campus)
    “Location: 16929 North Ridge Road, Minooka, Seward Township, Kendall County, Illinois, 60447”
    State agency · Feb. 2026 · grade A
  • City: Minooka
    “An Ordinance Annexing Certain Territory to the Village of Minooka, Will County, Grundy County, and Kendall County, State of Illinois (Equinix)”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Site bounds: Bounded by Wildy Road (north), Ridge Road (west), Holt Road (south), Kendall Dynegy Energy (east)
    “The Equinix site is bounded by the following properties: North: Wildy Road; East: Kendall Dynegy Energy; South: Holt Road; West: Ridge Road”
    Local government · Sept. 2025 · grade A
  • Developer: Equinix, Inc.
    “An Ordinance to amend the UIRVDA Enterprise Zone on behalf of the Equinix data center project (Kendall County)”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • County: Kendall County
    “They are looking to develop multiple data centers projects near Minooka in unincorporated Kendall County, near Ridge Road and Wildy Road”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Site acres: 373 acres
    “The data center campus will occupy +/- 373 acres of property, of which, approximately one-third is currently in the Village of Minooka”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Jobs: 150 jobs
    “The project is expected to create 150 jobs according to their application”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Current target date: 2032
    “Equinix will begin constructing the data center facilities in late 2025, with the seven facilities being built over an estimated seven-year period”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Enterprise zone: UIRVDA Enterprise Zone (amended for this project by Ordinance 25-025)
    “They are seeking to take potential advantage of benefits afforded by the enterprise zone that are not offered under other state incentives for data center development”
    State agency · Aug. 2025 · grade A
  • Name: Equinix Minooka Campus
    “In an effort to keep residents informed regarding the approved Equinix data center the Village of Minooka has compiled the following document and map”
    Local government · July 2026 · grade B
  • Aliases: CH8
    “Equinix: Minooka CH8”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Equinix job posting for a Senior Manager, Construction Project Management based in Minooka, Illinois (via a job aggregator), consistent with a move toward construction staffing
    “Senior Manager Construction Project Management Illinois Minooka”
    News report · Oct. 2026 · grade C
  • Equinix executives told investors the Hampton and Minooka projects are currently on track, without further expansion detail
    “Shaw said the Hampton and Minooka projects are currently on track, without providing further expansion details”
    News report · Sept. 2026 · grade C
  • Change.org petition NO DATA CENTERS in Minooka, IL published, opposing the campus on water, energy and land-use grounds
    “A proposal to construct a large-scale data center in Minooka, Il. has recently surfaced”
    News report · Dec. 2025 · grade C
  • Original target date: not stated
    “he is still scrambling to line up electricity and water to break ground next year and complete the project by 2034”
    News report · March 2025 · grade C
  • Water demand: 3000000 gal/day
    “It would need 3 million gallons of water a day. That's a third of all the drinkable water Minooka will be allowed to draw”
    News report · March 2025 · grade C
  • Pre-entitlement, Equinix's real-estate director said he was not sure the project would ever get built; electricity and water were not yet lined up and ComEd said the project was still in study and design
    “Baumann said he's not sure it will ever get built. He's still scrambling to line up electricity and water”
    News report · March 2025 · grade C
  • First announced: Jan. 23, 2025
    “On January 23, 2025, Equinix held its very first proposal meeting to discuss a potential state-of-the-art data center campus in Minooka”
    News report · Jan. 2025 · grade C

Imagery and records: Satellite and aerial imagery: local aerial photography via Esri World Imagery Wayback; Sentinel-2 (ESA Copernicus).