Equinix CH3
Equinix · Chicago
- IT live
- 14 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.7 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $84
- White space
- 117k ft²
Inventory
88% occupiedPower
14 MWlive
1.7 MW to lease · 12.3 MW in use
White space
117k ft²total
14k ft² free · 103k ft² occupied
11k m² · 1,301 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 4.2 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$84/kW·mo
8.1¢ industrial · 11.5¢ after PUE 1.42
- Per MW·year
- $1M
- This site · 14 MW
- $14M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $420/mo
2.5× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $8.5M/yr less.
ComEd · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2007
- Renewable match
- 80%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.421.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- ComEd.
Cooling
Plant
Air / CRAH
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
5 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 112k m³/yr at 14 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.
IDEC / chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Campus Cooling as a Service is available for high-density cabinets on request.
Network carriers
8On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
6Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States
1905 Lunt Avenue, Elk Grove Village, IL
42.004°, -87.970° · North America
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
CH3 is an Equinix IBX in the Chicago metro. Carrier-neutral IBX with Equinix Fabric, Internet Exchange, and cloud on-ramps. Fleet-average PUE was 1.37 in 2025.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.