Proposed-site record

Karis Critical Data Center

Karis Critical's proposed Naperville campus was denied after a multi-meeting conditional-use and variance review. The 36 MW figure remains proposed project context; facility water, wastewater, energized capacity, and IT load remain unknown.

Blocked or pausedconfirmedHigh concern

Site Snapshot

Location
Naperville, DuPage County, Illinois
Operator / sponsor
Unknown operator
Status / stage
Blocked or paused · blocked / paused
Scale
36 MW reported; Medium (11-50 MW); 145,000 sq ft
Reported project context; confirm whether any MW figure is requested, approved, energized, IT load, generation, or ultimate buildout before comparing it with another record.Capacity reading: Project-scale context · MW type not established · Proposed floor area

Compute Workload

This panel tracks what the facility is for without assuming that every project is AI training, inference, or cloud capacity.

Undisclosed / unknownUnknown

No source-backed workload, customer, hardware, or training/inference allocation is attached to this record yet.

Workload classification remains unknown in the reviewed record.

Public Money

No public funding record attached yet. Local subsidy, tax-abatement, land, bond, and utility records need follow-up.

Water

Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Karis's public project site describes a proposed phased campus but does not publish a water source, cooling method, withdrawal, service, or wastewater quantity. Those facility-specific records remain unresolved.

Power

Source reviewed September 9, 2026: Naperville's 2025 annual report records four public-hearing meetings for Karis Critical's conditional-use and variance request at 1960 Lucent Lane; reporting says the city later denied the 36 MW proposal. The dataset's 36 MW remains proposed project context, not confirmed requested, approved, energized, generation, or data-center IT-load capacity.

Bloom / Fuel Cells

No fuel-cell or Bloom Energy source is attached to this project yet.

NDA / Secrecy

No NDA reported

Missing NDA / secrecy, Public moneyFields with source leads: Water, Power
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