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Building Info
- Square Footage
- 1,262,150 sqft10x median124,364 sqft7x median Data Center180,000 sqft
- Built
- 1912
- Primary Property Type
- Data Center
- Community Area
- Near South Side
- Ward
- 3
-
Chicago Energy Rating
- 1.0 / 4
-
Energy Star Score
- 1 / 100
- Owner
2020 Report Card
Debug Full Grade Data
- AvgPercentileLetterGrade: C
- AvgPercentileGrade: 47.73920824194638
- GHGIntensityLetterGrade: F
- GHGIntensityPercentileGrade: 0.0345303867403288
- EnergyMixLetterGrade: A
- EnergyMixWeightedPctSum: 99.80635785940612
- EnergyMixPercentileGrade: 94.30485762144052
- SubmittedRecordsLetterGrade: A
- MissingRecordsCount: 0.0
- SubmittedRecordsPercentileGrade: 100.0
Emissions & Energy Information for 2020
- Greenhouse Gas Intensity F
- 142.1 kg CO2e / sqft23x median6.2 kg CO2e / sqft1.5x median Data Center93.5 kg CO2e / sqft
- Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 173,705 tons CO2e206x median841.4 tons CO2e10x median Data Center17,323 tons CO2e
Years Reported
2/4
A

2019
2020
2021
2022
Energy Breakdown for Digital Lakeside
- Fossil Gas Use (aka Natural Gas)
- Not Reported
This data was not reported for this building this year, which likely means a value of zero for this field.
This Building Uses District Heating ❗Although this building didn't burn any fossil gas on site, it's connected to a district heating system, a centralized system for heating multiple buildings. District heating systems can be fully electric, but in Chicago most district heating systems are fossil gas powered, meaning this building was most likely still heated with fossil gas.
- Electricity Use
- 289,441,152 kWhEst. Electric Bill: $41,390,000 for 2020**276x median1,049,335 kWh8x median Data Center38,394,938 kWh
- District Steam Use
- 2,620,722 kBtu1/2 median6,360,617 kBtu
- District Chilled Water Use
- 363,190,557 kBtu47x median7,765,434 kBtu
Energy Mix A
Total Energy Use: 1,353,384,492 kBTU
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- Source Energy Usage Intensity
- Not Reported
This data was not reported for this building this year, which likely means a value of zero for this field.
- Site Energy Usage Intensity
- Not Reported
This data was not reported for this building this year, which likely means a value of zero for this field.
Full Historical Data Table for Digital Lakeside
| Year |
Overall Grade |
Emissions Intensity Sub-Grade |
Energy Mix Sub-Grade |
Reporting Mix Sub-Grade | GHG Intensity kg CO2e / sqft | GHG Emissions metric tons CO2e | Energy Mix | Electricity Use kBTU |
District Steam Use kBTU |
District Chilled Water Use kBTU | Source EUI kBTU / sqft | Floor Area sqft |
Chicago Energy Rating |
Energy Star Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | C | F | A | A | 151.5 | 185,162 | 72%Electricity 0%Fossil Gas 0%Other | 992,328,338 | 834,714 | 376,223,342 | 2556.6 | 1,222,150 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | C | F | A | A | 142.1 | 173,705 | 73%Electricity 0%Fossil Gas 0%Other | 987,573,211 | 2,620,723 | 363,190,558 | 2538.5 | 1,262,150 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | - | 1,003,962,916 | 2,956,786 | 452,189,114 | 2606.8 | 1,279,228 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ||||||
| 2022 | - | 1,114,458,041 | 33,250,417 | 455,641,579 | 2887.6 | 1,279,228 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
View Data Notes & Disclaimers
* Note on Rankings: Rankings and medians are among included buildings, which are those who reported under the Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance for the year 2023, which only applies to buildings over 50,000 square feet.
** Note on Bill Estimates:
Estimates for gas and electric bills are based on average electric
and gas retail prices for Chicago in
2021 and are rounded. We expect large buildings
would negotiate lower rates with utilities, but these estimates
serve as an upper bound of cost and help understand the volume of
energy a building is used by comparing it to your own energy bills!
See our
Chicago Gas & Electric Costs Source
for the original statistics.
Data Source:
Chicago Energy Benchmarking Data