Equinix CH1
Operational350 East Cermak Road, 5th Floor, Chicago, IL 60616
Equinix CH1 is a data center in Chicago, United States, operated by Equinix, currently operational.
Fifth-floor IBX in the 350 E Cermak Road carrier hotel in Chicago's South Loop, with 107,295 sq ft of colocation space.
- Operator
- Equinix
- City
- Chicago, United States
- Power, MW
- —
- Cooling
- Air
- Floor space
- 9,968 m²
Coloprice Score
42 out of 100
Class D · #75 of 574 in United States
- Resilience10/35
- Compliance20/20
- Transparency5/20
- Scale0/15
- Maturity7/10
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Equinix CH1 occupies the 5th floor of 350 East Cermak Road, a historic multi-tenant carrier hotel in Chicago's South Loop that houses several of the operator's local IBX buildings. It lists 107,295 sq ft (9,968 sqm) of colocation space in the nine-story reinforced-concrete building. Disclosed specs show N+1 power redundancy, N+1 cooling redundancy, N+1 UPS redundancy, N+2 generator redundancy with 30+ hours of generator autonomy at full load, a minimum cabinet density of 2 kVA on 120V/208V distribution, and biometric access with 24/7 video surveillance. Sustainability disclosures are limited to LED lighting alongside the standard wind/solar REC sourcing used across Equinix's US sites. High-Density Cooling is not among CH1's available products, which include Secure Cabinet Express, Private Cage, Equinix Flex Space and Antenna. Certifications named are HECVAT, HIPAA, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 50001, ISO 9001, NIST 800-53/FISMA High, PCI DSS, SOC 1 Type II and SOC 2 Type II. Total power capacity in MW, cabinet count and opening year are not published.
- ▮107,295 sq ft (9,968 sqm) on the 5th floor of 350 E Cermak Rd, Chicago's main carrier-hotel building
- ▮N+1 power / N+1 cooling redundancy; N+2 generator redundancy, 30+ hrs autonomy
- ▮Biometric access and 24/7 video surveillance
- ▮Part of the multi-floor 350 E Cermak IBX cluster with CH2 and CH4
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