# Equinix SV5

CAISO data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/equinix-sv5

Equinix SV5 is a building 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 Equinix Great Oaks South 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: building
- Location: 9 Great Oaks Boulevard, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
- Operator: Equinix (exact asset) — https://www.equinix.com

## Power and grid context

- Utility service: 21 MW · operating · exact asset — Utility service capacity
- Energized power: 15 MW · operating · exact asset — Total power available
- Backup generation: 21 MW · operating · exact asset — Backup generation capacity
- ISO/RTO: CAISO
- Balancing authority: CAISO
- Electric utility: Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)

## Development

- Site status: operating
- Site area: 11.15 acres
- Gross floor area: 170,000 square feet
- Buildings: 1
- Construction: Equinix SV5 is a carrier‑neutral data center at 9 Great Oaks Boulevard, San Jose, CA. The facility was announced by Equinix (publicly noted in a July 2024 article) and built as a single‑story, two‑story steel‑framed building. Construction was completed and the data center entered operation prior to 2026, with a total power capacity of 15–25 MW and a gross floor area of roughly 170,000 sq ft (including support space). The site occupies approximately 11.15 acres and was acquired in October 2025 (45.8 acres) as part of the Great Oaks South Campus.

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation, telecom_edge
- Workloads: colocation, interconnection
- Critical IT load: 18 MW
- Operating context: Equinix-operated, carrier‑neutral colocation IBX building at 9 Great Oaks Boulevard offering colocation and interconnection services; documented N+1 power redundancy and N+2 cooling redundancy; part of the Equinix Great Oaks campus with campus cross‑connectivity to adjacent Equinix Silicon Valley IBXs.

## Sources

- [http://atce.com/all-projects/equinix-sv5](http://atce.com/all-projects/equinix-sv5)
- [Equinix SV5 Data Center](http://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-sv5)
- [http://datacentermap.com/usa/california/san-jose/equinix-great-oaks-south-campus](http://datacentermap.com/usa/california/san-jose/equinix-great-oaks-south-campus)
- [http://datacenters.com/equinix-sv5-san-jose](http://datacenters.com/equinix-sv5-san-jose)
- [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://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv5](http://equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv5)
- [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/264/equinix-to-install-largest-deployment-of-fuel-cells-for-the](http://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/264/equinix-to-install-largest-deployment-of-fuel-cells-for-the)
- [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://redwoodeg.com/projects/equinix-sv-5-data-center-%28phase-1%2C-2-and-3%29.html](http://redwoodeg.com/projects/equinix-sv-5-data-center-%28phase-1%2C-2-and-3%29.html)
- [Data Center and other Large Energy-Use Projects | City of San José](http://sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/planning-building-code-enforcement/planning-division/data-center-and-other-large-energy-use-projects)
- [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://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-residents-push-for-data-center-moratorium](http://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-residents-push-for-data-center-moratorium)
- [Equinix San Jose Campus: SV1, SV5, & SV10 Data Centers](https://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-san-jose-campus)
- [Equinix SV5 Data Center](https://baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-sv5)
- [How Data Centers Can Use Alternative Water Sources - Interconnections - The Equinix Blog](https://blog.equinix.com/blog/2025/03/20/how-data-centers-can-use-alternative-water-sources/)
- [Great Oaks South Backup Generating Facility (SV18) - CEQAnet](https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2020100431/7)
- [Equinix SV5 | 9 Great Oaks Boulevard, Northern California - datacenterHawk](https://datacenterhawk.com/marketplace/providers/equinix/9-great-oaks-boulevard/sv5)
- [Equinix Signs Power Purchase Agreements that Bring its North American Data Centers to 100% Renewable Energy :: Equinix, Inc. (EQIX)](https://investor.equinix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/413/equinix-signs-power-purchase-agreements-that-bring-its)
- [Equinix to Make California Data Centers 100% Renewable](https://newsroom.equinix.com/2015-09-23-Equinix-to-Make-California-Data-Centers-100-Renewable)
- [Equinix SV5, San Jose, CA — AlfaTech](https://www.atce.com/all-projects/equinix-sv5)
- [Great Oaks South Generating Facility](https://www.energy.ca.gov/powerplant/backup-generating-system/great-oaks-south-generating-facility)
- [Great Oaks South Generating Facility (20-SPPE-01)](https://www.energy.ca.gov/publications/2021/great-oaks-south-generating-facility-20-sppe-01)
- [Environmental Sustainability | Equinix Green Data Center Initiatives](https://www.equinix.com/about/sustainability/environmental)
- [SV5](https://www.equinix.com/data-centers/americas-colocation/united-states-colocation/silicon-valley-data-centers/sv5)
- [Equinix Silicon Valley 5 - GrayWolf](https://www.graywolf.com/projects/data-centers/equinix-silicon-valley-5/)
- [KRON4 gets inside tour of Silicon Valley data center in San Jose | KRON4](https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/kron4-gets-inside-tour-of-silicon-valley-data-center-in-san-jose/) — KRON4 · 2026-04-02
- [Equinix SV1/SV5/SV10 - Silicon Valley, San Jose](https://www.peeringdb.com/fac/6)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.

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Profile generated: 2026-09-04T18:53:00.742000Z
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