TierPoint Chicago - Polk is a data center operated by TierPoint in Chicago, IL, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Chicago data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 21.6-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 Chicago — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Chicago — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Chicago's data center footprint spans 272 tracked facilities totaling 1,563 MW, dominated by Digital Realty's 17-site portfolio, followed by NTT, Centersquare, and CyrusOne each operating between 5–6 facilities. The market exhibits a paradoxical constraint profile: excess-power availability scores 44/100 indicating modest supply headroom, but constraint pressure registers 56/100, signaling that grid, cooling, or real-estate bottlenecks are the binding limitation, not fuel. This asymmetry reflects Chicago's mature but geographically fragmented infrastructure, where capacity exists but is not uniformly deployable. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is unambiguous for acquisition investors and operators pursuing greenfield or brownfield expansion. A constraint score of 56/100 means new entrants or capital-intensive scale-ups will face meaningful friction on permitting, interconnection, or…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 90 operating generating units totalling 7,512 MW within about 50 km of Chicago, US. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
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