id: meta-dekalb
name: Meta DeKalb Data Center
operator: meta
status: operational
location:
  country: US
  state: IL
  county: DeKalb
  locality: DeKalb
metrics:
  land_acres: 505
  buildings: 5
  building_sqft: 1000000
  investment_usd: 1000000000
operational_date: "2024-12"
first_seen: "2026-07-07"
last_updated: "2026-07-07"
confidence: low
sources:
  - url: https://baxtel.com/data-center/meta-dekalb-il
    title: Meta DeKalb IL
    publisher: Baxtel
    date: "2026-07-06"
    note: secondary aggregator; sole source for all attributes
signals:
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-acres
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-buildings
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-investment
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-opdate
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-operator
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-sqft
  - sig-20260706-meta-dekalb-status
notes: >
  buildings recorded as 5 but source says "up to five" (a planned maximum).
  building_sqft: source states 1,000,000 sq ft built vs 2,300,000 sq ft
  planned — the built figure is recorded, 2.3M sq ft is the full-build plan.
  investment_usd is "$1 billion+ invested since 2020" — recorded as the
  1,000,000,000 floor. All values come from a single low-confidence
  secondary aggregator (Baxtel), hence low aggregate confidence.