This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Microsoft
- Address and locality
- Elk Grove Village · Cook County · Illinois
- Lifecycle status
- reported under construction
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000972
What the source record says
37-acre site in the Elk Grove Technology Park near O'Hare; up to three buildings totaling ~400,000 sq ft. First building valued at $123M (land purchased for $52M in Jan 2020).
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
- 2022 · reported under construction
Microsoft begins construction on first building
Sources and attribution
- Microsoft begins data center construction in Elk Grove, Chicago · DatacenterDynamics
- Microsoft: Elk Grove Data Center · Baxtel
- Data Center Investment Program 2025 Annual Report — Microsoft Corporation, Elk Grove Village (2020 MOU) · Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID microsoft-elk-grove-village-il. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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