Compass Datacenters LLC Is an American multinational data center company. It is a significant player in the hyperscale computing space,[1] with approximately 17 active datacenter campuses in the US, and internationally in Canada and Israel.[2]
Compass Datacenters was founded in 2011 by Chris Crosby, who previously was a senior vice president of Digital Realty[6] with a focus on modular datacenters. In 2014, the company received a patent noting that they had created a truly modular datacenter.[7]
Compass wholly owns a software as a service company known as Radix IoT that specializes in datacenter management software.[8]
Compass initially started with a focus on US operations however eventually expanded abroad. Specifically to Canada through the acquisition of ROOT datacenters [9] in 2019 and expansion to Israel directly through a partnership with Amazon Web Services.[10] In the same time period Azrieli Group acquired a 20% stake in the organization.[11] In 2023 the company acquired the former Sears HQ in Illinois to create a datacenter mega campus.[12][13] On December 13, 2023, it was confirmed the Compass Datacenters Prince William County project, one of the largest in the world, was set to go through after a 4–3 vote in favor of development. [14][15][16]
On June 26, 2023, it was announced that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan had purchased the company.[17]
