Minooka, in Grundy County, Illinois, adopted a data-center zoning exclusion on October 1, 2025. Its status in this snapshot is enacted.
The record reads: "Equinix was approved for a $2B, 368-acre, 700MW campus in Minooka, Illinois, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago, requiring 3 million gallons of water per day from a $1.54 billion Lake Michigan pipeline currently under construction. The… (datacentertracker.org)."
Details
| Action | Class | Status | Date | MW threshold | Scope | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoning exclusion | restriction | enacted | October 1, 2025 | not county-wide | datacentertracker.org |
Jurisdiction type: municipality. County: Grundy County. Dataset: datacentertracker. Snapshot August 15, 2026; documented actions, not a census.
Illinois context
Illinois has 23 documented local actions across 21 jurisdictions in this snapshot. At the state level, the state has an incentive rollback (in force, June 5, 2026).
A town that says no to a data center gives up local tax revenue, not jobs: one large campus pays $2M to $90M a year depending on the tax regime, against roughly 50 permanent jobs. The parent piece prices it and lists the conditions that beat a ban.