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AI summary A developer slide deck marked Confidential, posted by the city with no date. Its 18 pages are two decks that Datawatt Energy attached to emails to the city, joined together: pages 1–11 match the 11-page deck sent on Nov. 25, 2024, and pages 12–18 match the earlier 7-page deck sent on Nov. 7, 2024. Both are also reproduced in the city communications file. The deck describes a roughly 760-acre, multi-building data center campus south of I-90, zoned agricultural and under contract with a single landowner, with a target of 1,000+ megawatts connected to a 345 kV ComEd line. JLL is named as Datawatt's representative.

AI summary A 313-page compilation of emails and calendar items released by the city. The messages run from November 2024 to July 2026. Many pages are repeated printouts of the same chains, so the file holds about 110 unique messages. Each conversation is summarized as an entry on the timeline, with page numbers, and two developer slide decks attached to November 2024 emails are included.

AI summary The developer agrees to reimburse the city's outside engineering, legal, planning and consulting costs for reviewing and negotiating Project Hawkeye, counted from April 1, 2026, and for administering the project if it is approved. It also posts a $150,000 cash pledge that the city can draw on if a bill goes unpaid for 35 days. Any balance is returned within 60 days after the first certificate of occupancy, or after the city denies annexation or an annexation or redevelopment agreement, once all city expenses are paid. The city is not obligated to continue the process. The agreement is dated May 26, 2026; the developer's signature is dated May 21.

AI summary Mayor Clinton Morris writes to Datawatt Energy's co-founder expressing enthusiastic support for a data center on Genoa Road south of I-90, and says the city wants to explore annexing the land and extending city utilities to it and the surrounding territory.