Data centers in DeKalb County, Illinois
The map shows 7 data center sites in DeKalb County, Illinois. The operators named are Meta, Donato Solar and Facebook. 1 site states a capacity, 200 MW in all.
Sites
- Meta DeKalb: Meta, 200 MW
- Botique Data Center: Donato Solar
- Data centre: Meta
- Data centre: Meta
- Data centre: Meta
- DeKalb: Facebook
- DeKalb Data Center: Meta
Operators
- Meta: 5 sites
- Donato Solar: 1 site
- Facebook: 1 site
Power plants in DeKalb County
DeKalb County has 31 power plants, with 305 MW of capacity: wind 238 MW, solar 68 MW.
- FPL Energy Illinois Wind LLC Hybrid: Wind, 238 MW
- NL IL Bastian CSG: Solar, 5 MW
- NL IL Kane Rd CSG: Solar, 5 MW
- DeKalb Taylor LLC: Solar, 5 MW
- Boigenzahn Solar 1A, LLC: Solar, 2 MW
- Cortland: Solar, 2 MW
- Engel Solar 1, LLC: Solar, 2 MW
- Engel Solar 1A: Solar, 2 MW
- Frieders Solar 1, LLC: Solar, 2 MW
- Heinsohn Solar 1, LLC: Solar, 2 MW
Other large power plants within 50 km
- Byron Generating Station: Nuclear, 2.3 GW, 48 km away, Illinois
- Aurora: Natural gas, 990 MW, 45 km away, Illinois
- MRP Elgin LLC: Natural gas, 488 MW, 44 km away, Illinois
- NRG Rockford I: Natural gas, 362 MW, 47 km away, Illinois
- MRP Rocky Road LLC: Natural gas, 341 MW, 48 km away, Illinois
- NRG Rockford II Energy Center: Natural gas, 181 MW, 47 km away, Illinois
- Shady Oaks Wind Farm: Wind, 110 MW, 36 km away, Illinois
- Shady Oaks Wind 2: Wind, 108 MW, 36 km away, Illinois
Sources
Data centers: Epoch AI (CC BY); OpenStreetMap via the public Overpass API (ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Ringmast4r Global-Data-Center-Map (custom permissive license, attribution required); location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; generation within 20 km from the previous publish's plants; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: CC BY; ODbL; custom permissive; WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0; USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain; Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH; the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC
Power plants: EIA-860M (US); NRCan NACEI (Canada, Mexico); WRI GPPD (Mexico); OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik (Canada, Mexico gap fill); USGS USWTDB/USPVDB; EPA eGRID; Natural Earth admin-1; HIFLD control areas; location attributes from WorldPop (R2025A), Global Solar Atlas PVOUT, Global Wind Atlas 4, USFS Wildfire Hazard Potential, the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model and the previous publish's lines and substations; water distances from OpenStreetMap via Geofabrik; gas distances and county queue from the previous publish's EIA gas pipelines and LBNL Queued Up requests; nearest city from Natural Earth populated places; cooling degree days from NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county normals; elevation and slope from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, via AWS Open Data); water stress from WRI Aqueduct 4.0; ozone nonattainment from the EPA Green Book; drought from the U.S. Drought Monitor; tribal land from US Census TIGER/Line. License: ODbL (derivative database; EIA content is public domain, NRCan OGL-Canada, WRI GPPD CC BY 4.0; location attributes from WorldPop, Global Solar Atlas, Global Wind Atlas, LBNL Queued Up and WRI Aqueduct CC BY 4.0, USFS, USGS, EIA, NOAA, EPA, US Census and Natural Earth public domain, Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. and Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, the U.S. Drought Monitor courtesy of NDMC)