# Equinix SV4

CAISO data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/equinix-sv4

Equinix SV4 is a facility data center in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, CA. Equinix is identified as the operator, and the facility is operating. It is identified as part of Equinix Silicon Valley. Spatial service-territory evidence associates the site with Pacific Gas & Electric Company; 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: 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, CA
- Operator: Equinix (exact asset) — https://www.equinix.com
- Owner: Brookfield Properties (exact asset)

## Power and grid context

- Critical it load: 6.5 MW · operating · exact asset — Critical IT capacity
- Electric utility: Pacific Gas & Electric Company

## Development

- Site status: operating
- Site area: 6.49 acres
- Gross floor area: 119,756 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: Equinix SV4 is a Tier‑III, single‑tenant data center at 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, consisting of a 1‑story reinforced concrete building with 119,756 sq ft of gross floor area on a 6.49‑acre site, providing 67,619 sq ft of colocation space, powered by 8 MW of capacity, owned by Brookfield and operated by Equinix, and fully operational as of 2026.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, telecom_edge, enterprise, mixed
- Workloads: interconnection / peering, enterprise colocation, high-density compute (supports high-density cabinets / next‑gen cooling), telecom/edge networking
- Announced tenants: Equinix
- Critical IT load: 6.5 MW
- Operating context: Equinix-operated IBX colocation facility (SV4) at 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale. The building is a single-story reinforced concrete / tilt-up structure converted to a data center; it is operated by Equinix and (per property records) owned/leased in a net-lease arrangement by Brookfield Properties. Cooling uses close‑coupled evaporative (water‑cooled) air handling units and recycled water; generator autonomy and N+1 redundancies are documented. Public materials describe SV4 as serving high‑tech companies and peering hubs; Brookfield property material lists the powered shell as supporting ~6.5 MW of critical IT capacity (owner property spec).

## Sources

- [http://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-sunnyvale-sv4](http://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-sunnyvale-sv4)
- [Equinix SV4 Data Center - BKF Engineers](http://bkf.com/projects/equinix-sv4-data-center)
- [http://brookfieldreit.com/portfolio/properties/255-caspian-drive](http://brookfieldreit.com/portfolio/properties/255-caspian-drive)
- [http://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/equinix-occupied-data-center-in-california-sold-to-brookfield](http://datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/equinix-occupied-data-center-in-california-sold-to-brookfield)
- [http://equinix.com.br/content/dam/eqxcorp/en_us/documents/resources/ibx-tech-specs/ibx_sv4_en.pdf](http://equinix.com.br/content/dam/eqxcorp/en_us/documents/resources/ibx-tech-specs/ibx_sv4_en.pdf)
- [SV4](http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv4)
- [http://loopnet.com/property/255-caspian-dr-sunnyvale-ca-94089/06085-11033038](http://loopnet.com/property/255-caspian-dr-sunnyvale-ca-94089/06085-11033038)
- [http://pge.com/en/featured/pge-service-area.html](http://pge.com/en/featured/pge-service-area.html)
- [BREX Net Lease Data Center I DST | Baker 1031 Investments](https://baker1031.com/offerings/brex-net-lease-data-center-i-dst/)
- [Equinix SV4 | 255 Caspian Drive, Northern California - datacenterHawk](https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/equinix/255-caspian-drive/sv4)
- [DivcoWest Sells Sunnyvale Data Center to Brookfield](https://therealdeal.com/san-francisco/2026/05/15/divcowest-sells-sunnyvale-data-center-to-brookfield/)
- [255 Caspian Drive](https://www.brookfieldreit.com/portfolio/properties/255-caspian-drive)
- [Community Opposition to AI Data Centers: Lessons Learned](https://www.carbon-direct.com/research-and-reports/community-opposition-to-ai-data-centers-lessons-learned)
- [Equinix - Sunnyvale, CA | datacenter.fyi](https://www.datacenter.fyi/public-record/equinix-3eb1c846)
- [Equinix-occupied data center in California sold to Brookfield](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/equinix-occupied-data-center-in-california-sold-to-brookfield/)
- [Environmental Sustainability | Equinix Green Data Center Initiatives](https://www.equinix.com/about/sustainability/environmental)
- [Silicon Valley Data Centers | Premium Colocation Provider ...](https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers)
- [Silicon Valley SV4](https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv4) — Equinix (operator site)
- [Equinix SV4 - Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale - PeeringDB](https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/574)
- [Sunnyvale data center lands buyer from New York](https://www.siliconvalley.com/2026/05/14/tech-sunnyvale-web-property-build-ai-economy-real-estate-develop-data/)

## Data quality

- Primary operator page (Equinix SV4) supplies exact-asset identity, address, and technical-feature descriptions; trade press (DatacenterDynamics, The Real Deal, SiliconValley.com) corroborates a May 2026 sale and identifies Equinix as occupant.
- Sunnyvale Legistar records show historical neighborhood-preservation complaints about the site (noise, garbage containers, generator smoke) from 2008–2018 and note the tenant worked with the City's Neighborhood Preservation Division; no current unresolved complaints were recorded in those entries.
- No documents in the reviewed corpus contained explicit community-benefit agreements, active litigation naming this parcel, or a site-specific petition; regional reports on data-center opposition exist but do not identify 255 Caspian Drive specifically.
- 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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