Equinix CH3
1905 Lunt Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL, 60007, US
Equinix CH3 at 1905 Lunt Avenue in Elk Grove Village is a three-story, steel-frame building with 196,151 sq ft of colocation space, 3,041 sq ft more than the newer CH5 next door. Equinix bought the 228,000 sq ft warehouse complex for $9.75 million in June 2006, financed the conversion with a $110 million loan, and opened the $175 million first phase on October 24, 2007 with about 2,500 cabinets and a second phase sized for 1,300 more. Forty-four networks and two exchanges, Equinix Chicago and NetIX, are present in this building. Power is N+1 UPS with two generator trains and 30 hours or more of fuel at full load, with a 5 kVA minimum per cabinet and 240/415 V available. Cooling is N+20% with hot and cold aisle containment and free cooling, and the building carries a LEED rating. Buyers get free adjacent parking, Secure Cabinet Express, private cages and Flex Space, with Equinix Fabric on site.
Facility Specifications
Site information
- Colocation space
- 196,151 sq ft (18,223 m²) colocation
- Power density
- 5 kVA minimum per cabinet, 120/208 V and 240/415 V
- Uptime SLA
- 99.999% uptime SLA
Power & cooling
- Redundancy
- N+1 UPS, two generator trains, 30 h fuel at full load
- Cooling
- N+20% cooling redundancy, hot/cold aisle containment, free 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, free adjacent parking, 250 psf slab, VESDA detection
Network ecosystem — 43 carriers on-net
Notable: Arelion (Twelve99) (AS1299) · Cogent Communications (AS174) · GTT Communications (AS3257) · Zayo (AS6461) · Cloudflare (AS13335) · Hurricane Electric (AS6939)