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Chicago, IL, USA - Near South Side (CHI-1)
- Authors
- Name
- Alex Lee
- Title
- CEO
- @alexjoelee
Welcome to Chicago, IL
Chicago is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Over 2.7 million people live in the lakefront city.
🏷️ Nickname: Windy City
😋 Famous Food: Deep Dish Pizza
🏟️ Points of Interest: Museum of Science and Industry, Soldier Field
🏘️ Population: 2.7 Million
350 E. Cermak
Coresite CH2 located at 1432 S. Clinton St. in Chicago, IL is a 169,000 square foot data center capable of over 18MW of power from the local utility. Located in between the Loop and the West Side of Chicago, this building is the first purpose-built datacenter facility in the city.
350 E. Cermak is one of the largest datacenters in the world, in a building that first began construction in 1912 as the RR Donnelley printing company. Clocking in at over 1.1 million square feet with over 100MW of power availability, the building could feasibly house tens of thousands of server cabinets.
Facility Information
📋 Facility SLA: 100% Uptime
🔒 Certifications: DSS PCI, ISO27001, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 Type 2
🤝 Internet Exchanges: AMX-IX, BBIX, DE-CIX, DRIX, EQIX, FD-IX, GCIIX, MegaIX
⚡ On-site Power Contingency: N+1 UPS + 150kW Generator
🦸 Transit Provider: OVH
Impact to Our Network
This Equinix datacenter is essential to Skip2 and serves traffic to users in Chicago, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Missouri.
All locations are redundant - if this location goes offline, traffic would be routed to a different Chicago location, or the next closest location.