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No project in Elgin City, but 9 nearby

Who decides here: the City Council of Elgin City votes on zoning. The Cook County may review big projects too.

Nearby (within 15 miles)

Stopped or cancelledabout 4 miles away

White Rose Partners data center (Kenyon Road and Route 25, South Elgin)

South Elgin, Kane County

20 acres

🕒 July 2026: White Rose Partners presented plans for a 200,000-square-foot data center on farmland it…

Reported in the news, not confirmed yet

Stopped or cancelledabout 5 miles away

Plum Farms rezoning for possible data center (Higgins Road and Route 59)

Hoffman Estates, Cook County

186 acres

🕒 June 30, 2026: Landowner withdrew its rezoning request after more than 3,250 people signed a petition a…

Being builtabout 6 miles away

Compass Datacenters campus at former Sears headquarters (Hoffman Estates)

Hoffman Estates, Cook County

273 acres

🕒 Dec 2025: Village issued permits; walls for the first two data center buildings went up.

Stopped or cancelledabout 8 miles away

Brennan data center campus (Barrington Hills, south of Penny Road)

Barrington Hills, Cook County

🕒 Jan 28, 2026: Brennan withdrew its $2 billion data center plan and cancelled a planned public presenta…

Approved, not built yetabout 12 miles away

Hut 8 data center (1780 Hubbard Ave., Batavia)

Batavia, Kane County

🕒 Sept 2, 2025: City Council approved a water deal 9-2 that caps average use at 1,000 gallons a day and …

Approved, not built yetabout 14 miles away

Nexstar data center campus at WGN radio transmitter site (Rohlwing Road)

Elk Grove Village, Cook County

🕒 Jan 2026: Village Board extended the deadline to start the first building to Sept. 30, 2027; the p…

Reported in the news, not confirmed yet

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