Data centers and water
Data Center Water Use in DuPage County, IL
DuPage County, Illinois has 26 mapped data center facilities, including Centersquare, CyrusOne, UChicago Argonne LLC, carrying about 381 MW of estimated power load.
Water pressure for new demandHow hard a large new water user, like a data center, would press on this county's water. It blends recent drinking-water compliance, drought, and existing industrial demand. Higher pressure means new demand competes harder with current uses. It is not a judgment about whether one should be built.
Low water pressure
DuPage County has no health violations in the last 5 years, abnormally dry conditions, low existing industrial water demand.
- Mapped facilities
- 26
- EPA + OpenStreetMap layers
- Estimated power load
- 381 MW
- IM3 Atlas capacity estimate
- Permitted discharge
- Not reported
- Clean Water Act permit fields
- DCWSI national rank
- #22
- of 318 scored counties
The operators
How many data centers are in DuPage County?
26 facilities are mapped to DuPage County, Illinois across the EPA and OpenStreetMap layers, run by operators including Centersquare, CyrusOne, UChicago Argonne LLC. Counts reflect mapped footprint, not an operator's total fleet.
- EPA ECHO
360 TCS LLC
LOMBARD, IL
- EPA ECHO
4513 WESTERN AVENUE LLC
LISLE, IL
- OpenStreetMap
Centersquare Elk Grove Village Data Center Campus ORD2
Centersquare · Elk Grove Village, IL
- OpenStreetMap
Centersquare Lisle ORD4 Data Center
Centersquare · Lisle, IL
- EPA ECHO
CHICAGO ENTERPRISE LLC
WOOD DALE, IL
- EPA ECHO
CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/OAKBROOK INC
OAK BROOK, IL
- EPA ECHO
CLOP CAROL STREAM IL LLC
CAROL STREAM, IL
- OpenStreetMap
CyrusOne CHI3
CyrusOne · Aurora, IL
- EPA ECHO
CYRUSONE CHI6 FACILITY
CyrusOne · WOOD DALE, IL
- OpenStreetMap
CyrusOne Chicago Aurora CME
CyrusOne · Aurora, IL
- EPA ECHO
CYRUSONE LLC
CyrusOne · AURORA, IL
- OpenStreetMap
Datacenter (386)
UChicago Argonne LLC · 17
- EPA ECHO
EDGED CHICAGO LLC
AURORA, IL
- OpenStreetMap
Edged Chicago ORD01
Edged · 17
- OpenStreetMap
Element Critical CH1
Element Critical · Wood Dale, IL
- OpenStreetMap
Element Critical CH2
Element Critical · Wood Dale, IL
- EPA ECHO
ENSONO DATA CENTER
DOWNERS GROVE, IL
- OpenStreetMap
Equinix Chicago Data CH7
Equinix · 17
8 more mapped facilities counted in this county's score.
Supply versus demand
How much water do DuPage County data centers use?
Exact facility water draw is rarely public. As a screening proxy we compare the Clean Water Act permitted discharge mapped to these facilities against the county's entire industrial water baseline from the USGS 2020 series.
No Clean Water Act permitted discharge is reported for the mapped facilities in DuPage County. The figures below show the county's industrial water baseline for context.
- Mapped facility discharge
- Not reported
- County industrial baseline
- 6.79 Mgal/day
Model a build
Can DuPage County support more data centers?
On the water-pressure scale, DuPage County sits at 10, below the national median, so new large-load demand has more slack here than in most counties. Size a hypothetical build to see the daily draw against the county industrial baseline.
Data Center Water Budget Calculator
Estimate daily water use for a hypothetical facility in DuPage County.
Your facility would use 11.8% of this county's industrial water baseline — manageable but worth monitoring against drought trends.
Based on USGS 2020 water-use data and EPA-standard cooling intensity constants. Not a substitute for site-specific water rights analysis.
In context
How does DuPage County compare nationally?
- DCWSI build-out rank
- #22
- of 318 counties with a stress score
- Water pressure vs median
- -9
- national median is 19 of 100
- Share of mapped load
- 0.2%
- of 166.02 GW mapped nationally
DuPage County is one of 330 US counties with mapped data centers. See the full ranking and the interactive map in the national atlas.
Facility data combines EPA ECHO, EPA Clean Water Act permits, OpenStreetMap, and the IM3 Open Source Data Center Atlas (DOE/PNNL), geocoded to county FIPS. Capacity and water baselines come from IM3 and USGS 2020 water-use data. These are county-level screening figures, not a facility-level water-use audit. Read the full methodology.