DataBank Chicago (ORD3) is a data center operated by DataBank in Mount Prospect, IL, US. It carries a reported power capacity of 5.0 MW and is currently operational. It sits in the Mount Prospect data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 76.6-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Mount Prospect — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Mount Prospect — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Mount Prospect's data center market comprises just 14 MW across five tracked facilities, a fragmented footprint dominated by single-asset operators with no consolidation momentum. The market is split evenly between five players—Apotech, Colocation America Corporation, DataBank operating two separate entities, and Netrix LLC—each contributing roughly 2.8 MW on average. This extreme fragmentation, combined with minimal total capacity, positions Mount Prospect as a secondary market with limited scale economics and operator pricing power. The DCPI verdict of AVOID reflects a critical structural mismatch: while excess-power availability scores 44/100 indicating modest surplus capacity, the constraint score of 56/100 signals that physical, regulatory, or interconnection barriers offset any power advantage. For acquisition-focused investors, this combination is poisonous. A moderately…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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