Compass has initiated development work on a new data center campus in the Hoffman Estates region of Chicago. Located in Cook County, the campus will feature five buildings and represents a total planned investment of $10 billion. Compass purchased the 197-acre property in 2023, which formerly served as the headquarters for the Sears department store chain.
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| 1.57 miles | Karis: Hoffman Estates Campus |
Karis Critical and site owner Hoffman Estates Holdings officially withdrew their rezoning application for the proposed data center project in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, in June 2026, putting all active approvals on hold.
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| 1.86 miles | Brennan Investment: Barrington, IL |
The Brennan Investment Group has officially withdrawn its ambitious plans for a $2 billion data center project in Barrington Hills, a village located roughly 40 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois.
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| 4.30 miles | MetroInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 4.38 miles | CloudInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 4.38 miles | Plaza MaxInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 4.60 miles | Ridge MaxInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 5.49 miles | WhiteRose: South Elgin, IL |
Whiterose Partners LLC is proposing a 200,000-square-foot data center on nine acres in South Elgin, Illinois, located roughly 40 miles west of Chicago.
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| 8.00 miles | Complete Source Schaumburg | |
| 10.53 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg1 |
As of January 2026, the Nexstar/WGN data center project has expanded from its original 35-acre, three-building plan to a four-building campus utilizing a larger portion of the 102-acre transmitter site.
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| 10.55 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg4 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 10.63 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg2 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 10.74 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg3 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 12.56 miles | NTT: Chicago CH2 |
CH2 is a two-story data center at 275 Pierce Road on NTT's Itasca campus in Itasca, Illinois, with six data halls.
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| 12.57 miles | Connect Data Centers: Chicago |
Oppidan is developing Carol Stream’s first data center in Chicago, Illinois.
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| 12.59 miles | NTT: Chicago CH1 |
The first building on NTT's Itasca campus: a two-story data center at 255 Pierce Road with six data vaults and four primary 34.5 kV ComEd feeds plus one alternate.
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| 12.60 miles | NTT: Chicago CH3 |
CH3 is a data center under construction at 235 Pierce Road on NTT's Itasca campus in Itasca, Illinois, with four data vaults.
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| 12.63 miles | Aligned: ORD-03 |
Aligned is building a datacenter campus after acquiring an assemblage of beleaguered office properties near O’Hare International Airport.
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| 12.67 miles | NTT: Chicago CH4 |
CH4 is a planned data center at 1200 N. Arlington Heights Road on NTT's Itasca campus, on the site of two office buildings NTT bought and cleared.
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| 12.77 miles | Aligned: ORD-04 |
This facility will be part of Aligned's ORD-03 campus in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago.
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| 12.89 miles | NTT: Chicago CH5 |
CH5 is a planned three-story data center on the former Marino Court subdivision east of Arlington Heights Road, the fifth and final building on NTT's Itasca campus.
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| 13.23 miles | T5 Chicago II |
T5 Chicago II campus is located at 200 Innovation Drive in the Elk Grove area.
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| 13.32 miles | West PointInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 13.36 miles | Cloud StationInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 13.37 miles | PointInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 13.58 miles | Colovore: West Chicago ORD02 |
ORD02 is Colovore's second Chicago-area facility, located in West Chicago and extending the company's distributed footprint across the metro. The liquid-cooled, HVDC-ready site is under construction and pre-leasing for edge AI and high-performance colocation workloads.
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| 13.74 miles | SBA Edge: 603 Discovery |
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
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| 13.81 miles | Prime: ORD01-02 |
Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
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| 13.86 miles | CoreWeave: US Central ORD1 | |
| 13.88 miles | Prime: ORD01-03 |
Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
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| 13.90 miles | Prime: ORD01-01 |
Prime Data Centers is building a 750,000 square foot hyperscale data center campus in Elk Grove Village (Chicago), Illinois, which will comprise an investment of around $1 billion.
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| 13.92 miles | DigiCo: Chicago |
The facility sits on a ten-acre site and will serve as a flagship asset in HMC Capital's newly established DigiCo Infrastructure REIT.
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| 13.98 miles | Stack: CHI01B |
Two-story data center at 1301 Touhy Avenue, built by STACK next to CHI01A on the same parcel, with four data halls and diverse underground ComEd feeds.
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| 14.02 miles | CloudHQ: ORD1 |
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
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| 14.08 miles | Stack: CHI01A |
Single-story data center at 1441 Touhy Avenue in Elk Grove Village. Forsythe Technology broke ground on it in 2014, T5 bought it in 2016, and IPI Partners made it part of STACK. It adjoins CHI01B on a shared 14-acre parcel.
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| 14.14 miles | CloudHQ: ORD3 |
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
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| 14.16 miles | CenturyLink: Arlington Heights | |
| 14.20 miles | CloudHQ: ORD2 |
CloudHQ is building a $2.5 billion data center campus at the former United Airlines world headquarters office campus in Mount Prospect, Illinois.
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| 14.22 miles | EdgeConneX: CHI05 |
CHI05 is EdgeConneX's planned second data center on Busse Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, on the parcel next to CHI04.
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| 14.24 miles | Stack: CHI02 |
Data center firm Stack Infrastructure is expanding its footprint in Chicago, Illinois with a new data center in Elk Grove Village, known as CHI02.
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| 14.25 miles | EdgeConneX: CHI04 |
CHI04 is a two-story, 164,000 sq ft EdgeConneX data center under construction at 901 Busse Road in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, near O'Hare Airport.
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| 14.38 miles | 1400 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT | |
| 14.47 miles | Stream: Chicago ORDC3 |
Stream DC aims to demolish around 55 Elk Grove residential properties to develop a three-building data center campus with an on-site substation. The three buildings will total more than 2 million sq ft.
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| 14.47 miles | 2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT | |
| 14.49 miles | Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1 |
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| 14.49 miles | HostPapa CH1 |
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
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| 14.51 miles | Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1 | |
| 14.56 miles | Stream: Chicago ORDC2 |
Stream DC aims to demolish around 55 Elk Grove residential properties to develop a three-building data center campus with an on-site substation. The three buildings will total more than 2 million sq ft.
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| 14.56 miles | Stream Chicago II |
Stream Data Centers' Chicago II data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois is a 226,000 square foot facility.
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| 14.57 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 14.67 miles | Equinix Chicago CH3 |
Equinix CH3 is a three-story colocation data center at 1905 Lunt Avenue in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, that Equinix opened in 2007 and expanded in five more phases through 2020.
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| 14.68 miles | 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty |
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| 14.72 miles | Equinix: CH5 |
Equinix has started construction on a new 195,000-square-foot, two-story data center in Elk Grove, Chicago. This new facility is being built right next to their existing CH3 data center.
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| 14.77 miles | Centersquare: Chicago ORD2 |
Cyxtera's CH3 Elk Grove site is across the street from the Digital Realty Chicago campus (former Dupont Fabros) and close to Equinix CH3.
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| 14.78 miles | EdgeConneX CHI02 | |
| 14.79 miles | Stream Chicago I |
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
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| 14.85 miles | EdgeConneX: CHI03 |
EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000 sq ft, two-story data center building on its Elk Grove Village campus near Chicago.
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| 14.88 miles | EdgeConneX CHI01 |
CHI01 is EdgeConneX's first Chicago data center, a 132,000 sq ft retrofit at 1800 Nicholas Blvd in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
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| 14.91 miles | Element Critical CH2 |
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (341).
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| 14.92 miles | Element Critical CH1 |
Element Critical acquired the site in January 2019 from Sungard. The facility was previously known as SunGard Wood Dale (711).
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| 14.96 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us | Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us |
| 15.06 miles | Hut 8: Batavia, IL |
HPC and cryptomine data center developer Hut 8 is developing a 120,000 sq ft (11,148 sqm) data center nearby Batavia, Kane County.
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| 15.18 miles | T5: Chicago V |
T5 Data Centers has secured land in Elk Grove Village to build its upcoming CHI V data center. The planned 220,000 square foot (20,438 sqm) facility is expected to be operational by 2028.
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| 15.39 miles | DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect |
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| 15.39 miles | Colocation America CH3 | |
| 15.40 miles | TA Realty: Elk Grove |
TA Realty is constructing a 45-acre data center campus at the corner of Elmhurst Road and Old Higgins Road. The development includes four two-story buildings and an electrical substation.
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| 15.79 miles | Apotech: Illinois 1 |
Apotech Group operates its Illiois 1 data center facility in the Chicago market, situated at 1331 E Business Center Drive. This facility is a retrofitted structure, encompassing 32,000 square feet of space.
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| 18.10 miles | Iron Mountain Chicago |
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
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| 18.23 miles | NetSource Chicago | |
| 18.45 miles | CyrusOne: Lombard CHI5 |
9 MW of critical capacity
Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
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| 18.46 miles | Edged Energy: Aurora ORD01 |
The new data center campus, Aurora TechPark, will offer facilities built to handle dense AI-driven workloads that are transforming the IT industry.
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| 18.50 miles | T5: Chicago lll |
T5@Chicago III will be build-to-suit, with the company spending more than $500 million to develop a three-story, 250,000 sq ft facility for multi-tenant or single-tenant operations.
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| 18.54 miles | Karis: Naperville (INEOS) |
Real estate developer Karis Critical is in early-stage exploratory discussions to potentially acquire the 168-acre former BP/INEOS campus at in Naperville, Illinois, within the Suburban Chicago market.
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| 18.58 miles | Edged Energy: Chicago ORD02 |
The new data center campus, Aurora TechPark, will offer facilities built to handle dense AI-driven workloads that are transforming the IT industry.
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| 18.64 miles | T5: Grayslake, Illinois |
T5 Data Centers is developing a new data center campus in Grayslake, Illinois, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago.
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| 18.69 miles | Edged Energy: Chicago ORD03 |
This facility will be part of Edged Energy's Aurora TechPark in Chicago.
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| 18.77 miles | CyrusOne: CHI3 DC1 |
CyrusOne is developing a pair of new data centers in Aurora, Illinois, a project that will also include the construction of three 350-foot telecommunication towers.
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| 18.83 miles | CyrusOne: CHI3 DC2 |
CyrusOne is developing a pair of new data centers in Aurora, Illinois, a project that will also include the construction of three 350-foot telecommunication towers.
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| 18.84 miles | OneInterested in this information?Contact us |
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| 18.93 miles | Raeden: Naperville (1415 W Diehl) |
The former Tellabs headquarters at 1415 West Diehl Road in Naperville, a mostly-office building with a legacy data center, planned for AI data center redevelopment.
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| 18.94 miles | Karis: Naperville, IL |
The Naperville City Council officially denied Karis Critical’s proposal for a "boutique data center campus" at 1960 Lucent Lane in January 2026.
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| 19.13 miles | Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard | |
| 19.13 miles | 360TCS-Lombard | |
| 19.14 miles | Cogent Naperville | |
| 19.16 miles | DataCanopy: Chicago, IL | |
| 19.17 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC1 |
The CyrusOne CHI2 data center is located on 16 acres, 45 minutes southwest of Chicago O'Hare International Airport.
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| 19.18 miles | CyrusOne: Aurora CME (CHI1) |
In 2016, CyrusOne acquired the CME data center for $130 million. CME hosts its electronic trading platform CME Globex on site. Globex will continue to be hosted on site as part of the 15-year lease agreement between CyrusOne and CME.
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| 19.23 miles | 505 N Railroad Ave - Digital Realty |
The Digital Chicago Campus covers 21 acres of land with access to major fiber networks and can support up to 8 MW of IT load at N+1 redundancies.
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| 19.24 miles | Aligned: ORD-02 |
Aligned's ORD-02 is a data center located in Northlake, IL near downtown Chicago. Part of Aligned's 18.5-acre hyperscale campus.
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| 19.24 miles | Aligned: ORD-01 |
Aligned's ORD-01 data center is a state-of-the-art facility located in Northlake, IL, just outside of downtown Chicago. At full build, Aligned’s Chicago campus covers 520,000 sq. ft. and offers ~ 100 MW of critical load.
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| 19.29 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC2 |
CyrusOne's CHI2 second building is located at 2805 Diehl Road, Aurora, IL.
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| 19.88 miles | Centersquare: Lisle CHI1 |
Centersquare's cloud-enabled Lisle data center is situated approximately 20 miles from O’Hare International airport.
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