Illinois DCEO's data-center program page says it stopped processing applications effective July 1, 2026 under a June 5 governor's directive. The underlying incentive program describes sales-tax benefits and investment, employment and building-certification conditions. The application pause is not a statewide construction ban.
In the historical record
energy agreement
Google backs nuclear plant uprates
Google announced an agreement with Constellation to finance additional generation from existing nuclear facilities supplying the PJM grid.
890 MWAdditional nuclear generation capacityplanned generation uprateConstellation uprates supported by Google agreementstatedGoogle ↗
Nuclear plants in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; PJM gridagreement announced
Sources and context
Target delivery is before the end of 2032. Plant locations do not establish data center locations. Generation capacity is not data center IT capacity.
