Microsoft behind plan for data centers in Hoffman Estates A rendering of one potential exterior option for Microsoft's proposed data center on Lakewood Boulevard in Hoffman Estates. The final design may be different. Courtesy of Hoffman Estates A close-up rendering of one potential exterior option for Microsoft's proposed data center on Lakewood Boulevard in Hoffman Estates. The final design may be different. Courtesy of Hoffman Estates
Updated 3/9/2021 2:36 PM Microsoft has been named as the previously anonymous company behind a proposal to build a pair of 207,000-square-foot internet data centers in Hoffman Estates. The 53-acre site on Lakewood Avenue north of the Bell Works Chicagoland "Metroburb" initially was billed as future home of the "Hoffman Technology Park," but its developers sold the land to Microsoft last summer.