First base-isolated data center in Silicon Valley
Our new world-class Silicon Valley SV1 Data Center at 1160 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, California is strategically located in the heart of the tech capital of the world. With a total of 160,000 sq. ft. and 16 MW of critical IT load, Silicon Valley SV1 provides scale, a proven design, and a rich ecosystem of connectivity options to major carriers, cloud providers, content networks, and other data centers. This facility is the first in Santa Clara to use an earthquake-resistant design featuring an innovative base isolation system.
NTT Silicon Valley SV1 overview
- Four-story, 160,000 sq. ft. facility built on a 3.3 acre campus
- 16MW of critical IT load, with two 5MW and one 6MW dedicated vaults
- Base isolation system to protect your people and equipment
- Access to multiple leading public, private and hybrid cloud providers
- Multiple "Meet Me Rooms" allows for network diversity and resiliency
- Renewable energy options available
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Silicon Valley SV1 specifications
Power
- 16 MW of critical IT load
- Power densities supported from 7kW per rack to 20kW per rack, with higher densities possible upon request
- Superior power redundancy from diverse utility feeds
- N+1 electrical and mechanical redundancy (4 to make 3 distributed redundancy)
- Renewable energy options available
Network & Connectivity
- Connected to three fiber entrance facilities and two Meet Me Rooms where carriers are located
- Multiple Tier-1 carriers on-site including Level 3, Frontier and Wholesale Networks (with access to other local networks for dark fiber), with more to come including NTT GN
- Direct connectivity to major cloud providers, applications providers and enterprise ecosystem
Cooling
- All equipment is concurrently maintainable, while still cooling 100% of the IT load
- Essentially no water use due to closed loop chiller plant
- Cooled by 16 366‐ton, roof-mounted air‐cooled chillers with integrated free cooling coils and pumps and two chillers for redundancy
Security
- 24x7 in-house security staff, shipping and receiving with secure short-term and long-term storage space
- Multi-factor authentication and multi-level security zones
- Anti-tailgate revolving mantrap to enter the facility
- Intelligent high-definition video surveillance system
- Anti-climb perimeter fence