DataBank Chicago (ORD3) is a data center operated by DataBank, Ltd. in Mount Prospect, IL, US. The facility 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 32.8-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 operates as a micro-market with just 14 MW of deployed capacity across 5 tracked facilities, making it one of the smallest addressable regions in the Chicagoland footprint. The market is highly fragmented, with five operators each controlling single facilities: Apotech, Colocation America Corporation, DataBank two separate entities, and Netrix LLC. This extreme fragmentation—no single operator holds meaningful market share—reflects the market's early-stage maturity and lack of institutional consolidation. The absence of tracked M&A activity underscores the difficulty in assembling portfolio scale in this geography. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is driven by a critical power constraint score of 56/100, which substantially outweighs the modest excess-power reading of 44/100. This imbalance signals that while some unutilized electrical capacity exists, the infrastructure…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
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