# Iron Mountain CHI-1

PJM data center · https://askthegrid.com/assets/facilities/iron-mountain-chi-1

Iron Mountain CHI-1 is the company's colocation facility at 1680 Touhy Ave in Des Plaines, Illinois. The operator lists a 13-acre campus, a 315,000 square foot facility and a 36MW IT load design, with 12MW available now. It reports 56MW of total facility capacity and N+1 redundancy. Average rack density is given as 20kW per rack.

## Identity and location

- Operating status: operating
- Asset scope: facility
- Location: 1680 Touhy Ave, Des Plaines, IL

## Power and grid context

- Critical it load: 36 MW · reported · exact asset — Operator-reported 36MW IT load design.
- Reported unspecified: 56 MW · reported · exact asset — Operator-reported total facility capacity of 56MW; basis unspecified.

## Development

- Gross floor area: 315,000 square feet

## Compute and operations

- Facility classes: colocation

## Sources

- [U.S. Census street-address geocode](https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/onelineaddress?address=1680+Touhy+Ave%2C+Des+Plaines%2C+IL%2C+60018&benchmark=Public_AR_Current&vintage=Current_Current&format=json)
- [https://imqa.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/chicago-data-center](https://imqa.ironmountain.com/data-centers/locations/chicago-data-center)

## Data quality

- Power values retain their reported, requested, contracted, energized, gross-campus, or critical-IT basis.
- Map point: approximate U.S. Census street-address geocode.

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