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Tazewell County

Mixed45.0— → stableComposite · JPAS64Completeness MediumCounty · Illinois

Population 130,049 · Census Bureau Vintage-2025 estimate

Last scored Jul 13, 2026 · Data may be stale

Composite · JPAS tier readings

Power

Power76sourced

Power reads 76 of 100, sourced evidence. Power measures grid capacity, interconnection-queue depth, generation mix, retail price and substation density. Interconnection-queue depth is an estimated roll-up (EST); queue vintage PJM 2026-04-28, CAISO 2025-02-12.

Politics

Regulatory86sourced

Regulatory reads 86 of 100, sourced evidence. Regulatory measures air-quality designation under the Clean Air Act and commercial permitting activity. Regulatory is evidenced by air-quality designation and permitting activity; a county absent from EPA's nonattainment list reads as attainment.

Community26sourced

Community reads 26 of 100, sourced evidence. Community measures enacted moratoria, pending legislation and farmland share as signals of local consent.

Incentives100estimated

Incentives reads 100 of 100, estimated evidence. Incentives measures state program baselines and disclosed awards for data-center and industrial projects.

Resources

Water75sourced

Water reads 75 of 100, sourced evidence. Water measures drinking-water system health, basin stress, streamflow and groundwater conditions.

Real estate / site50sourced

Real estate / site reads 50 of 100, sourced evidence. Real estate / site measures developable land share, convertible sites, substation hosting and permit velocity.

Environmental40sourced

Environmental reads 40 of 100, sourced evidence. Environmental measures FEMA hazard risk across riverine, coastal, wind, wildfire and related perils.

Labor64sourced

Labor reads 64 of 100, sourced evidence. Labor measures electrician depth, wages, unemployment and prevailing-wage floors in the county labor market.

Connectivity

Connectivity is not yet activated as a brief section; the Network tier reading is shown.

Network93sourced

Network reads 93 of 100, sourced evidence. Network measures broadband availability, fiber and middle-mile programs, and exchange-point proximity.

Density · JDS

Density · Minimal · 17 of 100

Data-center density is absent in this county (JDS Minimal, 17 of 100). County grain: computed from facilities, construction and permitted projects resolved to this county.

Trajectory · JTS

  • ModeledJTS-01 Trajectory rate of change — falling — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-02 Inflection points — falling — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • ModeledJTS-03 Trajectory volatility — falling — Modeled — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-04 Momentum — rising — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • SpeculativeJTS-05 Forecast confidence decay — falling — Speculative — covers 2026 Posture-series attributes were computed over an eight-week window that spans Faraday methodology changes; they partly measure recompute churn, not jurisdiction behaviour.
  • ModeledJTS-06 Substation & transmission build trajectory — rising — Modeled — covers 2026
  • ModeledJTS-07 Utility capital investment trend — rising — Modeled — covers 2020–2025

Windows held: 2026 · 2020–2025. Direction and evidence label only; horizons extend only as data lands.

Water & Cooling Readiness

Water System Capacity & Utilization4.0/5 · DirectSRC
Water Service Provider Coverage & Type—DirectSRC
Basin Water Stress Index4/5 · FavorableNo dataINF
Regulatory Compliance & Violation History5/5 · Very favorableDirectSRC
Streamflow Condition & Trend3/5 · NormalState-inheritedEST
Groundwater Drawdown Trend4/5 · FavorableState-inheritedEST

Water posture inferred from statewide data; no jurisdiction-level water measurement is available.

Gauge data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey

Local Moratorium Activity

1 data-center moratorium instrument tracked · 1 currently in force · community-opposition signal: current (inferred)

Activeil-tazewell-county-2026 · enacted 2026-04-29

Data: Moratorium Nation (mjbommar) — CC-BY-4.0

How Tazewell County leans — five dimensions, one composite

JPS Score Breakdown · Jurisdiction Posture Score

Per-dimension posture values are not yet published for this jurisdiction.

Infrastructure Map

Faraday's Read

Tazewell County currently sits in a Mixed posture tier with a composite score of 45, a rating carried over from a scale migration rather than a fresh reassessment. The attribute evidence base is rated Good on quality and Medium on completeness, with environmental, power, water, network, and labor categories each showing multiple sourced attributes at 0.85 confidence, suggesting a reasonably well-documented picture across these core areas. Incentives and regulatory attributes, by contrast, rest on only a single estimated attribute apiece at 0.3 confidence, so the data here is thin and any read on incentive or regulatory friction should be treated as a rough guess rather than established fact. There are no recorded data-center facilities in the jurisdiction, and the development density score is unscored, leaving actual build-out status unknown. The near-term forecast direction is listed as stable, though this comes with no confidence rating attached, so it should be read as a placeholder signal rather than a firm outlook.

Gilbert Faraday · Jul 17, 2026

Recent Signals

No signal events in the past 30 days for this jurisdiction.

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