TierPoint Chicago - West is a data center operated by TierPoint in Franklin Park, IL, US. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Franklin Park data-center market on the PJM grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 31.7-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 Franklin Park — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Franklin Park — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Franklin Park's data center market remains functionally dormant with 8 tracked facilities totaling 0 MW of operational capacity. Digital Realty dominates the operator landscape with 4 facilities, while three other operators—Franklin Park CHI22 Data Center, TierPoint, and TierPoint, LLC—collectively manage the remaining four sites. The absence of measurable megawatt deployment across a supposedly competitive market signals either pre-development status or operational underutilization. No recent M&A activity has been tracked in the region, indicating limited investor momentum despite Chicago's broader positioning as a Midwest data center hub. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is unambiguous and reflects structural constraints that should deter most acquisition strategies. The excess-power score of 44/100 paired with a constraint score of 56/100 creates a mathematically unfavorable risk profile:…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 58 operating generating units totalling 4,513 MW within about 50 km of Franklin Park, 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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