Meta data center
DeKalb County, Illinois
Building outline
Recorded as in service.
Status inferred from osm footprint (Sep 8, 2026). No filing states it in as many words.
- Status
- Operating (inferred)
- Owner
- Likely Meta
- Capacity
- 48 MW directory claim
- Location known to
- Building outline
- County
- DeKalb County
- State
- Illinois
- Electric utility
- Commonwealth Edison Co
- Grid operator
- PJM
Location and nearby
Meta data center is on record as operating in DeKalb County, Illinois. A directory lists its capacity at 48 MW; no filing we hold states a figure. 12 other campuses are on record within 25 miles, 3 of them within 5 miles. The nearest is 0.48 mi away.
Nearest of each kind: Operating 0.48 mi Permitted 15.9 mi Proposed 0.6 mi
Nearest campuses on record
- 0.48 mi
Operating · DeKalb County, IL
- 0.6 mi approximate
Proposed · DeKalb County, IL
- 3.7 mi approximate
Proposed · DeKalb County, IL
- 15.9 mi
Permitted · Ogle County, IL
- 16.0 mi approximate
Operating · Ogle County, IL
- 16.0 mi
Permitted · Ogle County, IL
What is on record
Owner
Likely Meta
One circumstantial signal, not a document chain.
What the signal was
-
OSM operator tag
Meta
Overpass data_center query, tile conus-c2 bbox 24.0,-95.0,50.0,-85.0 · Dec 10, 2025
Filed by: Meta
- Capacity
- 48 MW as reported by cleanview, not from a filing
- Diesel generators
- No air permit found in the records we collect
- Water
- Not collected. State water withdrawal permits are not in this build.
- Electric utility
- Commonwealth Edison Co
- Also recorded as
- Facebook USA, Inc. · Meta · Meta DeKalb - Building 4 · Meta DeKalb - Building 5 · Meta Platforms, Inc.
How the status changed
- Operating Dec 10, 2025 inferred
osm footprint
Overpass data_center query, tile conus-c2 bbox 24.0,-95.0,50.0,-85.0
- Operating Jun 18, 2026 inferred
DCE status 'mapped' (located only, single source)
- Operating Sep 8, 2026 inferred
Cleanview status 'Operating'
Cleanview state pages: facility markers (id, name, coordinates, status, MW, county)
- Operating Sep 8, 2026 inferred
Cleanview status 'Operating'
Cleanview state pages: facility markers (id, name, coordinates, status, MW, county)
About this data
Evidence
Map footprint and directories
An OpenStreetMap footprint plus one or more directories. No filing behind it.
Location known to
Building outline
A mapped building outline.
Independent sources
2
directory, osm footprint. Directories count once between them, because they copy each other.
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Where this comes from
4 source records back this page. Each row is a document we retrieved and kept, so a claim can be checked against the original.
| Document | Role | Row | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overpass data_center query, tile conus-c2 bbox 24.0,-95.0,50.0,-85.0 US | Primary | osm=way/1312792612 | Dec 10, 2025 stated in the file |
| Cleanview state pages: facility markers (id, name, coordinates, status, MW, county) US | Primary | id=3095 | Sep 8, 2026 retrieved by us |
| Cleanview state pages: facility markers (id, name, coordinates, status, MW, county) US | Primary | id=3096 | Sep 8, 2026 retrieved by us |
| dce tracker export (© DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.) US | Primary | slug=meta-osmway-1312792613 | Jun 18, 2026 last changed on the server |
Cleanview (cleanview.co) © DataCentersExposed contributors, datacentersexposed.com, ODbL 1.0. Contains data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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