123Net Southfield DC1
24700 Northwestern Hwy, Southfield, MI, 48075, US
123NET DC1 at 24700 Northwestern Hwy in Southfield is Michigan's carrier-hotel anchor — a 136,000 sq ft, seven-floor building with 80,000 sq ft of colocation and home to the Detroit Internet Exchange (DET-iX), whose 75+ members peer at up to 450 Gbps. Power runs 16 Toshiba 500 kVA UPS units (N+1) and five 2 MW Caterpillar generators on 16 MW of DTE utility, with Kyoto Wheel and chilled-water cooling at 500 tons per floor and densities up to 60 kW per rack. Sixteen major carriers including Lumen, Cogent, GTT and Verizon are on-site.
Facility Specifications
Site information
- Colocation space
- 136,000 sq ft building; 80,000 sq ft colocation across 7 floors (11 ft ceilings, 150 psf)
- Power capacity
- 16 MW DTE utility; UPS 16×500 kVA Toshiba (N+1); 5×2 MW Caterpillar generators with priority fuel
- Power density
- Up to 60 kW/rack
Power & cooling
- Redundancy
- N+1 UPS; 2(N+1) power architecture; A/B power available
- Cooling
- Kyoto Wheel + chilled water (N+1); 500 tons/floor; dry-pipe pre-action, 27 zones
Compliance
Platforms & amenities
- Platforms & services
- Colocation cabinets, secure cages & private suites; cross-connects; disaster recovery
- Amenities
- Smart Hands PLUS 24/7 NOC (15-min response); multi-factor access; 52-month CCTV retention
Network ecosystem — 57 carriers on-net
Notable: Arelion (Twelve99) (AS1299) · Cogent Communications (AS174) · GTT Communications (AS3257) · Zayo (AS6461) · Cloudflare (AS13335) · Hurricane Electric (AS6939)