NTT Chicago CH2 is a data center operated by NTT in Itasca, IL, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Itasca data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 76.0-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 Itasca — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Itasca — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Itasca remains a nascent and highly constrained market with minimal operational scale. The market currently hosts only 9 tracked facilities totaling 3 MW of capacity across five distinct operators, indicating fragmentation and limited infrastructure maturity. NTT dominates the operator landscape with effective control of 6 MW across multiple legal entities NTT Global Data Centers CH LLC and co-branded facilities with RagingWire, while Microsoft, RagingWire, and RagingWire-NTT joint operations maintain marginal presences. This operator concentration paired with extremely low absolute capacity suggests Itasca functions as a secondary or developmental market rather than a tier-one data center hub. The DCPI verdict of AVOID carries unambiguous implications for acquisition-focused capital. While the excess-power score of 44/100 indicates moderate availability of electrical supply relative to…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Comparable facilities in Itasca tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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