Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ)
200 MW AI data center in Hoffman Estates, IL, United States: under construction.
- Capacity: 200 MW
- Location: Hoffman Estates, IL, United States
- Developer: Compass Datacenters
- Status: under construction
- Estimated cost: $10B
Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ) is a 200 MW AI data center project located in Hoffman Estates, IL, United States, currently under construction. It is being built by Compass Datacenters. The estimated build cost is $10B. This project is one of thousands of data-center facilities tracked by Data Center Index across IL, United States, covering operational, under-construction, announced, and permitted sites.
Project description
The 2.4M sq ft former Sears headquarters has been demolished, and construction has begun on the first two of five data center buildings planned for the 197-acre Hoffman Estates site. Compass paid $194M for the site in 2023. It projects a $10B total investment, with five hyperscale buildings each over 250,000 sq ft.
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- Compass Datacenters Shawnee County (Topeka), Topeka, KS, United States · announced
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Frequently asked questions
- What is Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ)?
- Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ) is an AI data center project in Hoffman Estates, Illinois tracked by Data Center Index. Its status is under construction.
- Where is Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ)?
- Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ) is in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Every tracked Illinois campus, with counts and capacity, is at https://datacenterindex.ai/markets/illinois.
- How big is Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ)?
- Data Center Index tracks Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ) at 200 MW, on an estimated $10B build. The developer or the press states that capacity, in a source dated August 21, 2026.
- Who is building Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ)?
- Compass Datacenters is developing Compass Hoffman Estates (former Sears HQ).
Sources
- After Sears teardown, walls are going up for Hoffman Estates data center campus (dailyherald.com · press · 2025-12-08)
- Daily Herald (dailyherald.com · press · 2025-09-06)
- Compass Datacenters (compassdatacenters.com · press · 2024-06-13)
- Data Center Markets (compassdatacenters.com · press · 2026-08-21)
- Bisnow (bisnow.com · press · 2026-10-07)
- Data Center Frontier (datacenterfrontier.com · press · 2025-09-06)