Equinix SV10 Data Center — San Jose, CA · Ask the Grid

Power and grid

Capacity	Basis	Status	Scope	As of
14.4 MW	Energized Power	Operating	Exact Asset	2026-09-04
Site-level power availability / vendor & construction listings report ~14–14.4 MW available to SV10 (site-level energized power figure reported by construction/vendor/spec listings)
20 MW	Onsite Generation	Target	Campus	2026-08-12
Planned campus Bloom Energy fuel cell expansion described in Equinix/PR materials and third-party press as a campus plan/target (~20 MW of fuel cell capacity planned)
99 MW	Backup Generation	Requested	Campus	2026-08-29
California Energy Commission (GOSBGF) filings describe up to 99.0 MW of generating capacity proposed to support three data center buildings (project-level backup-generation proposal)

Utility: Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
Balancing authority: CAISO
ISO / RTO: CAISO
Redundancy: N+1 (generator, UPS, cooling redundancy reported in Equinix IBX technical specifications)
Backup generation: Facility standby diesel generator sets per Equinix spec (3 × 2,000 kW) and the CEC-filed Great Oaks South Backup Generating Facility proposal (up to 99 MW to support three data center buildings)
Onsite generation: Bloom Energy fuel cells (campus expansion planned to ~20 MW) and facility standby diesel generators (Equinix IBX spec lists 3 × 2,000 kW diesel generator sets)
Storage: no battery energy storage system (BESS) or site-level storage reported in the reviewed documents
Power sources: PG&E grid (utility transmission via Santa Teresa Substation, 115 kV) · Onsite diesel standby generators (facility standby gensets listed in Equinix SV10 technical spec) · Bloom Energy fuel cells (campus fuel-cell expansion reported / planned)
Grid flexibility: Substation and distribution upgrades described as scalable for future customers; campus fuel-cell expansion noted. No site-level battery storage or formal grid-flex program enrollment found in reviewed sources.
Queue identifiers: no public interconnection/queue ID located in reviewed operator, utility, and regulatory documents
Dockets: Great Oaks South Backup Generating Facility (GOSBGF) — CEC project filings / docket references (as cited in CEC project pages and EIR materials)

Facility and development

IT floor area (sq ft): 37,000
Site area (acres): 11
Construction: Announced June 14, 2016 (media alert to break ground); construction began in 2016; initial phase delivered in 2017 and the SV10 IBX was unveiled/opened September 14, 2017. The first phase added ~37,000+ sq ft of colocation space on an ~11-acre site purchased by Equinix. Status: operating.
Land transaction: Equinix purchased an ~11-acre site to develop SV10 adjacent to its Great Oaks campus.
Facility class: Colocation · Mixed · AI HPC
Workloads: interconnection / carrier-neutral colocation · high-density / AI and HPC workloads · enterprise / financial and media customers (interconnected ecosystems)
Racks: 930
Cooling systems: indirect evaporative cooling · close-coupled evaporative cooling · hot-aisle containment · free cooling
Cooling medium: recycled water (indirect evaporative cooling)
Water source: recycled water (indirect evaporative cooling)
Fiber and connectivity: Equinix IBX with campus cross-connects into SV1 and SV5; marketed interconnection services and access to 2,000+ network service providers in the Equinix Silicon Valley campus.
Operating context: Equinix-operated IBX (SV10). $122M facility (SV10) opened as a new Silicon Valley IBX with LEED Silver features and indirect/close-coupled evaporative cooling; initial phase provides ~37,000+ ft2 colocation space with 930 cabinets (phase 1) and planned expansion to 2,820 cabinets at full build. Equinix lists N+1 UPS and generator redundancy and 30+ hours generator autonomy.
Efficiency: PUE 1.06 · actual · Exact Asset
Environmental commitments: LEED Silver certification · Renewable Energy Certificates (Wind RECs) · Free Cooling · High Efficiency UPS · LED Lighting · Decoupled Dehumidification · Fuel cells
Project cost (USD): 122,000,000
Utility agreements: PG&E provides power to SV10 under a utility agreement.
Power purchase agreements: Equinix signed Power Purchase Agreements to provide 225 MW of renewable energy for its data centers.
Permits and dockets: Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and Addendum for SV10, with California Energy Commission as Lead Agency.
Transactions: Equinix purchased 11 acres of land for the SV10 campus. · Equinix invested an additional $125 million in the first phase of SV10.
Public hearings: California Energy Commission evidentiary hearing transcript (Sept 21, 2021) references SV10/SV11 and backup-generating-facility proceedings. · City of San José scheduled community listening sessions / Planning Director hearings on data center standards and Special Use/Planned Development Permit processes (city planning pages list Equinix Data Centers EIR and PD/PDC file numbers).
Community benefits: Equinix-listed project claims: campus investment and energy / sustainability features (capital investment in the Great Oaks campus; LEED Silver target for SV11; low-design PUE targets and indirect evaporative cooling on SV10/SV11). · Local utility/permit coordination: PG&E substation expansion and coordination for service upgrades to support the Great Oaks campus (not framed as a direct public payment or rebate program).
Petitions: Local reporting indicates organized resident calls for a moratorium and that community coalitions circulated petitions (news reports cite calls and circulated petitions), but I did not find a single canonical petition URL tied specifically to SV10 in the consulted records.
Opposition or litigation: Local opposition: multiple local news items and advocacy sites report resident opposition including calls for a moratorium and concerns about water, air quality, heat, and lack of public process. · Litigation: no single specific lawsuit against SV10 (exact-asset) surfaced in the consulted documents; there are regulatory dockets (CEC backup generation filings) and planning/permitting records but no identified civil litigation record tied to SV10 in the reviewed corpus.

Identity and campus: Great Oaks Campus
Grid record: Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) · CAISO
no public interconnection/queue ID located in reviewed operator, utility, and regulatory documents · Great Oaks South Backup Generating Facility (GOSBGF) — CEC project filings / docket references (as cited in CEC project pages and EIR materials)
Regulatory record: Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and Addendum for SV10, with California Energy Commission as Lead Agency.
The SV10 facility is a 2‑story steel‑framed building with precast concrete, located in a flood plain above the 500‑year base flood elevation and designed to Seismic Design Category D per UBC 2008. The City of San José prepared an Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the data center, with the California Energy Commission as the Lead Agency.

Silicon Valley SV10 — Equinix facility page for 'Silicon Valley SV10' lists address (7 / 11 Great Oaks Blvd variants), square footage and technical/certification features (LEED references, cooling and redundancy descriptions).

Equinix (SV10) — Construction/contractor project pages describe the SV10/SV11 buildout, phases, cooling equipment, generator counts (as project-reported) and site acreage.

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