The Goal Equinix, a global colocation company, had almost 300,000 SF of colocation across five buildings, including the CH3 Data Center in Elk Grove Village, outside Chicago. CH3 is situated close to the Equinix Financial ecosystem and offers connectivity to Equinix Cloud Exchange.
FCL Delivered The development met strategic and operational objectives, in a three-story pre-cast concrete building with indoor chiller rooms on the first floor and a series of power rooms in the upper levels. CH3 was one of the early data centers in what is the fourth-largest primary data center market in the U.S.
| region | FCL | Midwest |
| service | Design-Build |
| type | Mission Critical |
| use | Commercial Mixed-Use Facility |
| size | 379,662 sq. ft. |
Regional Vice President, Midwest
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Three-story Tier III co-location data center
133,987 square feet in raised floor space for colocation
Autonomous power and chiller rooms
10.8MW N + 1 power redundancy
N + 2 cooling redundancy
Electrical and cooling system redundancies for 24/7 operations and low network latency, making the facility ideal for financial services and transactions
Installation of proprietary cable tray system with multi-tier ladder rack
Installation of infrastructure for multiple cross-connect services including single-mode fiber, multi-mode fiber, Cat 5, Cat 6, Cat5(T1) and Cat3 (POTS)
Raised floor was constructed above the concrete slab, allowing for cooling infrastructure throughout the facility, significantly reducing energy expenses.
