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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Microsoft Hoffman Estates Data Center.
Approximate source coordinates; this is not a parcel claim. Nearby source points are combined into one accessible target that opens this exact map scope. View these exact rows on the interactive map →
Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Hoffman Estates · Cook County · Illinois
- Official metro area
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN
- Source-reported status
- operational
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000984
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 53 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $275 million
- Announced jobs
- 20 permanent
- Announced
- March 2021
Incentives reported by the source
Whether each incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
- Illinois Data Center Investment Program · Illinois · 2021 · $17,187,500 (as stated) Open cited source →
Provider notes
Energy. Campus plans include a dedicated on-site electrical substation, approved separately from the building site plans.
What the source record says
53-acre campus on the north side of Lakewood Boulevard near Barrington Road, approved by the Hoffman Estates Village Board in May 2021. Distinct from Microsoft's Elk Grove Village and Northlake sites. Investment figure is the capital-investment commitment recorded in the state MOU; a trade-press account attributes a higher figure to the campus, so the state number is used here as the documented commitment.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026-09-12 · source-reported operational
Phase 1 building (250,000 sq ft) complete and in service; a second 150,000 sq ft building and an on-site substation are under construction.
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report — Microsoft Corporation, Hoffman Estates (2021 MOU, $275,000,000 commitment, 20 new jobs) · Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
- Microsoft Hoffman Estates 1 Data Center · Baxtel
- The data center revolution: Microsoft project in Hoffman Estates just one of many in Illinois · REJournals
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-hoffman-estates-il. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
State or local registry record
What a state or local government record says naming this company in this city (no street is given in the record). The record is cited, not republished. It does not establish that a data center is operating, its capacity, or its owner or operator unless the record says that role. It is not added to the counts on this page.
Matched by name and city only. The government record names Microsoft Corporation in Hoffman Estates and gives no street. It is shown here because this is the only published record with that name in that city; it may concern another site of the same company there.
Microsoft Corporation
- Publishing agency
- Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
- Record type
- state certification list
- Named in the record
- Microsoft Corporation
- Location precision
- Hoffman Estates only
- Registry table row
- Row 8 on page 8 of Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report, MOU table (Illinois DCEO)
- Company Name: Microsoft Corporation
- Site Location: Hoffman Estates
- Year: 2021
What this record does not establish
- That a permit, certification, tax status, or application means an operating data center.
- Current IT capacity, utility load, or generation capacity.
- Who operates the site. A company named in the record is not the operator unless the record says so.
- Who owns the site.
- Cooling redundancy. Mentioned equipment is not a design rating.
- Whether the record covers one building, a campus, or a suite, beyond the unit label the record itself uses.
That does not mean the row is wrong, and it does not mean no reviewed record exists for the same place. A link is added only when an identifier or source establishes the match.
Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000984
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Hoffman Estates, IL · Cook (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Microsoft
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported operational
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Announced: March 2021
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-09-12 · source-reported operational
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 53 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $275 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Announced jobs: 20 permanent
Announced figures; whether they cover one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- Incentive reported by the source: Illinois Data Center Investment Program · Illinois · 2021 · $17,187,500 (as stated)
Whether the incentive was approved, awarded or received is not established.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-12
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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