# Equinix SV10

CAISO data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/equinix-sv10

Equinix SV10 is a facility data center in San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA. Equinix is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. It is identified as part of Great Oaks Campus. Spatial service-territory evidence associates the site with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E); the profile assigns the asset to CAISO through that documented market role. Reported development, power, and commercial facts retain their source-specific facility, campus, building, or phase scope; the page does not collapse those values into a single implied load.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 7 Great Oaks Boulevard, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
- Operator: Equinix (exact asset) — https://www.equinix.com
- Owner: Equinix (exact asset) — https://www.equinix.com

## Power and grid context

- Energized power: 14.4 MW · operating · exact asset · as of 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)
- Onsite generation: 20 MW · target · campus · as of 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)
- Backup generation: 99 MW · requested · campus · as of 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)
- ISO/RTO: CAISO
- Balancing authority: CAISO
- Electric utility: Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
- Queue IDs: no public interconnection/queue ID located in reviewed operator, utility, and regulatory documents

## Development

- Site status: operating
- Site area: 11 acres
- 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.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, mixed, ai_hpc
- Workloads: interconnection / carrier-neutral colocation, high-density / AI and HPC workloads, enterprise / financial and media customers (interconnected ecosystems)
- Critical IT load: 14.4 MW
- 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.

## Sources

- [http://datacentercoalition.org/](http://datacentercoalition.org/)
- [http://energy.ca.gov/powerplant/backup-generating-system/great-oaks-south-generating-facility](http://energy.ca.gov/powerplant/backup-generating-system/great-oaks-south-generating-facility)
- [http://energy.ca.gov/publications/2021/san-jose-data-center-draft-environmental-impact-report](http://energy.ca.gov/publications/2021/san-jose-data-center-draft-environmental-impact-report)
- [http://equinix.com.br/content/dam/eqxcorp/en_us/documents/resources/ibx-tech-specs/ibx_sv10_en.pdf](http://equinix.com.br/content/dam/eqxcorp/en_us/documents/resources/ibx-tech-specs/ibx_sv10_en.pdf)
- [http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers](http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers)
- [http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv10](http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv10)
- [http://ilovesanjose.org/](http://ilovesanjose.org/)
- [http://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/259/equinix-opens-newest-state-of-the-art-data-center-in](http://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/259/equinix-opens-newest-state-of-the-art-data-center-in)
- [http://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/364/media-alert-equinix-to-break-ground-on-sv10----newest](http://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/364/media-alert-equinix-to-break-ground-on-sv10----newest)
- [http://newsroom.equinix.com/2015-11-16-Equinix-Signs-Power-Purchase-Agreements-that-Bring-its-North-American-Data-Centers-to-100-Renewable-Energy](http://newsroom.equinix.com/2015-11-16-Equinix-Signs-Power-Purchase-Agreements-that-Bring-its-North-American-Data-Centers-to-100-Renewable-Energy)
- [http://pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/future-of-energy/pg-e-delivers-first-san-jose-data-center-as-part-of-historic-agr.html](http://pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/future-of-energy/pg-e-delivers-first-san-jose-data-center-as-part-of-historic-agr.html)
- [http://prnewswire.com/news-releases/equinix-expands-silicon-valley-campus-with-new-142m-highly-energy-efficient-data-center-301303834.html](http://prnewswire.com/news-releases/equinix-expands-silicon-valley-campus-with-new-142m-highly-energy-efficient-data-center-301303834.html)
- [http://prnewswire.com/news-releases/equinix-opens-newest-state-of-the-art-data-center-in-silicon-valley-300519411.html](http://prnewswire.com/news-releases/equinix-opens-newest-state-of-the-art-data-center-in-silicon-valley-300519411.html)
- [http://sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/environmental-planning/environmental-review/active-eirs/equinix-data-centers](http://sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/environmental-planning/environmental-review/active-eirs/equinix-data-centers)
- [http://sanjoseinside.com/news/city-of-san-jose-invites-residents-to-help-regulate-data-center-development](http://sanjoseinside.com/news/city-of-san-jose-invites-residents-to-help-regulate-data-center-development)
- [http://sanjosespotlight.com/residents-push-back-against-san-joses-data-center-plans](http://sanjosespotlight.com/residents-push-back-against-san-joses-data-center-plans)
- [http://schuff.com/project/equinix-sv10-data-center](http://schuff.com/project/equinix-sv10-data-center)
- [Equinix San Jose Campus: SV1, SV5, & SV10 Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-san-jose-campus)
- [Equinix SV10 Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-sv10)
- [Growing Silicon Valley Interconnection Demand Sparks ...](https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2016/06/21/growing-silicon-valley-interconnection-demand-sparks-equinix-expansion/)
- [Building for Tomorrow in Silicon Valley - Interconnections](https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2017/09/25/building-for-tomorrow-in-silicon-valley/)
- [Transcript 9-21-21 of Evidentiary Hearing](https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/GetDocument.aspx?tn=239839&DocumentContentId=73278)
- [Equinix Opens Newest State-of-the-Art Data Center in ...](https://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/259/equinix-opens-newest-state-of-the-art-data-center-in)
- [Newest Silicon Valley Data Center :: Equinix, Inc. (EQIX)](https://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/364/media-alert-equinix-to-break-ground-on-sv10----newest)
- [Equinix (SV10)](https://jtmagen.com/project/equinix-sv-10/) — Project / design contractor pages (JTM, HMH) · 2024-10-01
- [San Jose residents push for data center moratorium](https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-residents-push-for-data-center-moratorium/)
- [Equinix SV10 — Equinix Data Center, San Jose CA | USDataMap](https://usdatamap.com/facility/equinix-sv10-ca-eqx-27)
- [Construction begins on Equinix's eighth Silicon Valley facility](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/construction-begins-on-equinixs-eighth-silicon-valley-facility/)
- [Equinix Data Center in San Jose, California](https://www.datacenters.com/equinix-sv10-san-jose)
- [Silicon Valley SV10](https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv10) — Equinix (official site)
- [San Jose Data Center | News | City of San José](https://www.sanjoseca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/6495/4699?backlist=%2F)

## Data quality

- Primary operator/owner technical and marketing material (Equinix facility page and investor press releases) supply the facility identity, address variants, building description, and claimed sustainability targets; these are operator-published claims.
- City and state regulatory records (City of San José planning pages; California Energy Commission filings) document permit filings, environmental review entries, and evidentiary hearings tied to the Great Oaks data center projects and related backup generation proposals.
- Local news coverage reports community concern and calls for moratoria; these are local reporting and advocacy summaries rather than technical permit documents.
- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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Profile generated: 2026-09-04T18:50:39.640797Z
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