Digital infrastructure company Equinix, Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX) today announced the ability to serve more enterprise partners and customers with its newest International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Silicon Valley, located at its Great Oaks campus in San Jose. The $142 million facility, named SV11, is expected to open June 30, 2021, and will support the increasing demand from organizations for premium data center services to accelerate business performance and drive their digital transformation agendas.
SV11 is targeting LEED Silver certification with an ultra-low design average annual Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.17. SV11 customers can benefit from reductions of their CO2 footprint through Equinix’s renewable energy procurement strategy and the use of energy-efficient systems throughout the facility. Additionally, with expansion of the current Bloom Energy fuel cells, the campus is planned for 20 megawatt (MW) of capacity, and will be the first time Equinix will use the system as primary generation with utility electrical grid and generators as backup sources.
Equinix data centers in the Silicon Valley region are the business hub for more than 700 customers, and Silicon Valley represents the third-largest colocation metro in the Americas region and ninth globally. With the addition of SV11, Equinix has invested more than $1.25B in the local economy including its Great Oaks campus and has additional land in the area for future expansion, as demand arises.
SV11 is a two-story, state-of-the-art data center designed to deliver both small- and large-capacity deployments. The innovative, modular construction incorporates Equinix’s Flexible Data Center (FDC) principles, which leverage common design elements for space, power and cooling to reduce capital costs while ensuring long-term maintenance predictability.
The initial phase of SV11 will add more than 61,000 square feet (5,667+ square meters) of colocation space—and provides campus cross-connectivity into SV1, SV5 and SV10, making it an ideal home for customers looking to interconnect to key network and cloud service providers. Initially, it will include space for 1,450 cabinets, with space for additional cabinets in future phases. At full build, the facility will provide capacity for 2,950 cabinets.
With the opening of SV11, Equinix will now operate fourteen Silicon Valley data center sites. The addition of SV11—located adjacent to SV1, SV5 and SV10—provides additional capacity to meet the growing need for interconnection, multicloud deployments and connectivity to a broad range of network, cloud and content services offered on platform Equinix.
By utilizing Equinix Metro Connect, customers in SV11 can also easily and directly connect with customers in other Equinix IBX data centers in Silicon Valley. Additionally, Equinix Silicon Valley data centers provide low-latency routes to key metro areas such as Seattle, Denver and Los Angeles.
