Compass Datacenters

Compass Datacenters LLC Is an American multinational data center company. It is a significant player in the hyperscale computing space, with approximately 17 active datacenter campuses in the US, and internationally in Canada and Israel.

Since 2023, the company has been controlled by the private equity arms of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.

Compass' partners include Schneider Electric, Cummins, Foster Fuels, Vertiv and Salute.

History
Compass Datacenters was founded in 2011 by Chris Crosby, who previously was a senior vice president of Digital Realty with a focus on modular datacenters. In 2014, the company received a patent noting that they created a truly modular datacenter.

Compass wholly owns a software as a service company known as Radix IoT that specializes in datacenter management software.

It began with a focus on US operations however eventually expanded abroad. Specifically to Canada through the acquisition of ROOT datacenters in 2019 and expansion to Israel directly through a partnership with Amazon Web Services. In the same time period Azrieli Group acquired a 20% stake in the organization. In 2023 the company acquired the former Sears HQ in Illinois to create a datacenter mega campus. 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.

On June 26, 2023, it was announced that Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan had purchased the company.