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Mar 12, 2026
Eric Bell
World
Oppidan is developing Carol Stream’s first data center in Chicago, Illinois. Located on a site previously occupied by the Henkel adhesives company, the property underwent demolition of the existing building in 2022 and is now being prepared for construction. The data center will span 90,000 square feet (8,360 square meters) on a current 11.4-acre site, with the potential to expand by an additional three acres for future development. The first phase of the project is scheduled to become operational in 2026.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 6.13 miles | CyrusOne: Lombard CHI5 |
9 MW of critical capacity
Both a 1.5MW and a 2MW transformer
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| 6.90 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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| 7.02 miles | Digital Fortress: Chicago Lombard | |
| 7.02 miles | 360TCS-Lombard | |
| 7.29 miles | SBA Edge: 603 Discovery |
Former New Continuum site that was acquired in 2019
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| 7.55 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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| 7.56 miles | Cogent Naperville | |
| 7.62 miles | NTT: CH3 |
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
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| 7.70 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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| 7.75 miles | NTT: CH2 |
This facility is a part of NTT's Chicago data center campus in Illinois.
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| 7.85 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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| 7.88 miles | NTT: Chicago CH5 |
In November 2023, NTT Global Data Centers in November paid $27.5 million for the building.
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| 7.94 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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| 7.96 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 2 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 8.02 miles | CloudCenters: Lisle, IL |
The Cloud Centers data center project aims to transform the 18 acre former Lockformer superfund site in Lisle, Illinois, into a two story, 256,000 square foot facility.
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| 8.02 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 3 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 8.03 miles | NetSource Chicago | |
| 8.05 miles | Nexstar: Elk Grove Bldg 4 |
This facility is part of Nexstar's Elk Grove data center campus in Illinois.
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| 8.70 miles | Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset |
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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| 8.78 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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| 8.94 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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| 9.11 miles | CyrusOne: Wood Dale CHI6 |
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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| 9.20 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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| 9.65 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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| 9.66 miles | 1450 E Devon Ave (CH3) DRT | |
| 9.76 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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| 9.76 miles | HostPapa CH1 |
Formerly known as "ColoCrossing CH1"
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| 9.76 miles | Deft: Elk Grove DF-CH1 |
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| 9.76 miles | Rackspace Elk Grove ORD1 | |
| 9.79 miles | 2200 Busse Rd (CH1) DRT | |
| 9.82 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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| 9.84 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 9.87 miles | Edged Energy: Chicago ORD03 |
This facility will be part of Edged Energy's Aurora TechPark in Chicago.
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| 9.87 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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| 9.92 miles | 2299 Busse (CH2) Digital Realty |
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| 9.99 miles | Equinix Chicago CH7 |
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| 10.01 miles | NYI Chicago (Oak Brook) | |
| 10.05 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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| 10.07 miles | Server Farm Oak Brook |
The campus was originally built as the corporate headquarters of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CB&I).
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| 10.07 miles | US Signal Oakbrook IL01 |
800a 480V 3 phase
450kW diesel generator with 24 hour run time at full load
500kVa UPS capacity with battery backup
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| 10.07 miles | Verizon: (Oak Brook) | |
| 10.10 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
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| 10.12 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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| 10.14 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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| 10.15 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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| 10.16 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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| 10.18 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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| 10.20 miles | STACK Chicago CHI01 |
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| 10.26 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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| 10.27 miles | DataCanopy: Chicago, IL | |
| 10.29 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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| 10.32 miles | Complete Source Schaumburg | |
| 10.34 miles | Equinix Chicago CH3 |
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| 10.35 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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| 10.40 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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| 10.44 miles | EdgeConneX CHI02 | |
| 10.46 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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| 10.46 miles | CyrusOne: CHI2 DC2 |
CyrusOne's CHI2 second building is located at 2805 Diehl Road, Aurora, IL.
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| 10.49 miles | EdgeConneX CHI01 |
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| 10.53 miles | Stream Chicago I |
Free-Standing, Data Center Designed to Tier III Standards
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| 10.54 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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| 10.59 miles | T5 Chicago II |
T5 Chicago II campus is located at 200 Innovation Drive in the Elk Grove area.
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| 10.70 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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| 10.74 miles | LexusNexis Oak Brook | |
| 10.74 miles | DataBank (ORD4) Oak Brook |
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| 10.74 miles | Verizon: Swift Dr |
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| 10.77 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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| 10.80 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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| 10.81 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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| 10.84 miles | Stream: Chicago III DC3 |
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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| 10.89 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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| 10.91 miles | 4267 Meridian Pkwy: Lincoln Rackhouse |
The facility was acquired when Lincoln Rackhouse acquired Bytegrid in 2019.
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| 10.92 miles | DataBridge: Aurora, IL |
DataBridge Sites is the new name for ESite Systems, a company with two decades of history in the industry.
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| 10.96 miles | Stream: Chicago III DC2 |
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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| 11.00 miles | Stream: Chicago III |
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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| 11.00 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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| 11.03 miles | Prime: ORD01-02 |
Building B will be another three-story construction, offering 279,360 gross square feet of space.
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| 11.07 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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| 11.13 miles | Prime: ORD01-03 |
Building C will be another three-story construction, offering 294,429 gross square feet of space.
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| 11.14 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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| 11.22 miles | Summit: Naperville | |
| 11.34 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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| 11.44 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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| 11.47 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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| 11.55 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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| 11.64 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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| 11.76 miles | CenturyLink: Arlington Heights | |
| 11.88 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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| 11.99 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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| 12.05 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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| 12.28 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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| 12.41 miles | Karis: Hoffman 2 |
This planned facility would be part of Karis Critical's Hoffman Estates Campus in Chicago, Illinois.
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| 12.57 miles | Compass Hoffman Estates |
Located in Cook County, the campus will feature five buildings and represents a total planned investment of $10 billion.
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| 13.10 miles | Digital Realty: ORD15 |
In 2017, Digital Realty acquired the former Motorola Headquarters site in Franklin Park and subsequently converted it into a data center.
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| 13.21 miles | Digital Realty: ORD13 | |
| 13.21 miles | Digital Realty: Chicago ORD12 | |
| 13.23 miles | Digital Realty: Franklin Park Expansion |
Digital Realty acquired two land parcels near their existing Franklin Park campus in separate transactions on July 2025, for a total of approximately $18 million.
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| 13.24 miles | Digital Realty: ORD14 | |
| 13.27 miles | Digital Chicago Franklin Park Campus on Grand Ave - Digital Realty |
Digital Chicago is a master-planned 40-acre campus in the Village of Franklin Park. The campus has 3 existing buildings, totaling 574,994 sqft
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| 13.27 miles | Tierpoint Chicago West | |
| 13.77 miles | Lumen Broadview | |
| 13.85 miles | Iron Mountain Chicago |
First announced in 2018, the former Hart Schaffner Marx suit factory started construction in 2024.
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| 14.79 miles | Colovore: Chicago |
Colovore is developing a liquid-cooled colocation data center in Chicago, Illinois, with construction expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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| 15.14 miles | Colocation America CH3 | |
| 15.14 miles | DataBank ORD3 Mount Prospect |
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| 15.47 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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