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.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 1.63 miles | Karis: Hoffman 2 |
This planned facility would be part of Karis Critical's Hoffman Estates Campus in Chicago, Illinois.
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| 1.68 miles | Karis: Hoffman Estates Campus |
Karis Critical purchased 180 acres of land in the Hoffman Estates area from 5a7 for $45 million.
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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The Brennan Investment Group has officially withdrawn its ambitious plans for a $2 billion data center project in Barrington Hills, a village located roughly 40 miles northwest of Chicago, Illinois.
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| 4.38 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has expanded its presence in Chicago, Illinois, acquiring 30 acres of land in the Hoffman Estates area for $41.5 million in March 2023.
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| 4.38 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has expanded its presence in Chicago, Illinois, acquiring 30 acres of land in the Hoffman Estates area for $41.5 million in March 2023.
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| 4.60 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft Hoffman Estates data center campus is located on a 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard.
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| 4.63 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft Hoffman Estates data center campus is located on a 53-acre site on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard.
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| 8.00 miles | Complete Source Schaumburg | |
| 10.53 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove |
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 Bldg 4 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 10.63 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 2 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 10.74 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 3 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 12.56 miles | NTT: CH2 |
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
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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 |
NTT acquired its Chicago site in 2018 through its RagingWire subsidiary. Launched in 2021, the first two-story data center, CH1, spans 126,000 sq ft (11,705 sqm) of data floor space.
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| 12.60 miles | NTT: CH3 |
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
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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 CH5 |
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building.
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| 12.70 miles | NTT: Chicago CH4 |
NTT has acquired two office buildings in Chicago, Illinois, and plans to replace them with data centers.
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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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| 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 | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
The 36.6-acre plot in the Elk Grove Technology Park could eventually hold three data center buildings totaling 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m).
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| 13.36 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
The 37-acre plot in the Elk Grove Technology Park could eventually hold three data center buildings totaling 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m).
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| 13.37 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
The 36.6-acre plot in the Elk Grove Technology Park could eventually hold three data center buildings totaling 400,000 sq ft (37,000 sq m).
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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 Elk Grove |
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 |
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE CHI01B Chicago Data Center is located at 1441 Touhy Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL, which currently offers 24 MW of critical power and 221,000 square feet of space.
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| 14.02 miles | CloudHQ: Mount Prospect 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 Chicago CHI01 |
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| 14.14 miles | CloudHQ Mount Prospect 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: Mount Prospect 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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| 14.28 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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| 14.39 miles | 1450 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT | |
| 14.47 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset |
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 | HostPapa CH1 |
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
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| 14.49 miles | Digital Elk Grove Village Campus |
Digital Realty Trust's Chicago campus is massive and is split among 3 buildings. The campus was acquired from Dupont Fabros in September 2017.
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| 14.49 miles | Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1 |
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| 14.51 miles | Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1 | |
| 14.56 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset |
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 Center Request Dataset |
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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| 14.67 miles | Equinix Chicago CH3 |
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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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| 14.86 miles | EdgeConneX: CHI03 |
EdgeConneX CHI03 is a new 167,000-square-foot, two-story data center building on its Elkgrove campus near Chicago.
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| 14.88 miles | EdgeConneX CHI01 |
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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 Center Request Dataset |
CyrusOne is developing a 62-acre campus in Wood Dale, Illinois, with plans to construct six data center buildings encompassing approximately 1.4 million square feet.
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| 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 | Colocation America CH3 | |
| 15.39 miles | DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect |
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| 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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| 18.58 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: Aurora III (CHI3) |
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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| 18.85 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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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: Aurora CHI2 |
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 Chicago Aurora CME |
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 Chicago 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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