Equinix CH5
2001 Lunt Ave, Elk Grove Village, IL, 60007, US
Equinix CH5 at 2001 Lunt Avenue in Elk Grove Village is the second Equinix building on Lunt Avenue, next door to CH3, with 193,110 sq ft of colocation space. Chicago was among the nine new expansion projects Equinix added in the quarter to June 30, 2025. The building is set up for higher densities than its neighbour, with a 7 kVA minimum per cabinet, 240/415 V distribution and direct-to-chip liquid cooling offered as a product. Power is N+1 UPS and N+1 generators fed from belly tanks, with N+20% cooling redundancy. PCI DSS is the compliance attestation published for this building. Buyers take secure cabinets, private cages or Flex Space, with high-density cooling, campus cross connects to CH3 and Equinix Fabric ports.
Facility Specifications
Site information
- Colocation space
- 193,110 sq ft (17,941 m²) colocation
- Power density
- 7 kVA minimum per cabinet, 240/415 V
- Uptime SLA
- 99.999% uptime SLA
Power & cooling
- Redundancy
- N+1 UPS, N+1 generators, belly-tank fuel
- Cooling
- N+20% cooling redundancy, direct-to-chip liquid cooling
Compliance
Platforms & amenities
- Platforms & services
- Equinix Fabric, Fabric Cloud Router, Network Edge, Equinix Precision Time, Equinix Internet Exchange, Metro Connect
- Amenities
- Breakroom, conference rooms, crash carts, loaner tools, showers, Wi-Fi, work kiosks, parking lot, biometric and proximity-card access, 24/7 guards and video
Network ecosystem — 43 carriers on-net
Notable: Arelion (Twelve99) (AS1299) · Cogent Communications (AS174) · GTT Communications (AS3257) · Zayo (AS6461) · Cloudflare (AS13335) · Hurricane Electric (AS6939)