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Aligned ORD-02 Northlake Data Center

Northlake, Illinois, United StatesOperating
Evidence
Headline capacity
Not established in published records
Updated
Oct 28, 2026

Aligned ORD-02 is an operating data center at 501 Northwest Avenue in Northlake, Illinois, on the company’s 18.5-acre Chicago campus. It was the first facility to receive OCP Ready for Hyperscale certification and is designed to Tier III standards with 24-hour access and a 100% uptime service-level commitment.

Capacity

Operating IT capacity: Not established in published records

A missing figure does not mean zero. Planned, utility and generation figures are not operating IT capacity.

Development

ORD-02 facilityOperational

Operating certified hyperscale-ready facility on the Northlake campus.

Milestones (1)
ORD-02 identified as OCP Ready for Hyperscale

Jan 1, 2024 · Recorded actual event

Completed · Program designation

Source not linked

Participants

Aligned Data Centers

Operator

Sources by role
Operator (1)
Operator (1)

Site & development

Site area

Actual

18.5 acre

Source

Infrastructure & permits

Technical details (2)
Cooling system

Operational

Aligned Delta cooling architecture and Tier III design.

Fiber

Operational

Carrier-neutral connectivity within the Chicago campus.

Public-source research. Plans may change. See Evidence for sources and qualifications.

Related projects (1)
Microsoft Northlake Azure Data Center

Operating · Northlake, Illinois, United States

Same locality: Northlake

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