DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. Opens Second Data Center In Chicago
Newest facility extends company's growing campus; Phase I is 20% leased.
DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. has announced that it has formally opened its newest data center in the greater Chicago area. CH2 is located on more than 15 acres of land just west of downtown Chicago in Elk Grove Village. DFT previously announced that it executed its first pre-lease on the new CH2 facility, making Phase I 20% leased.
CH2 Phase I includes 7.1 megawatts of critical load capacity and five computer rooms totaling nearly 45,000 sq ft of white space. When fully developed, CH2 will include approximately 336,000 sq ft and a critical load capacity totaling 25.6 megawatts. Constructed following the same award-winning design principles of DFT's Ashburn, VA-based ACC7 facility that opened in September 2014, CH2 offers a high degree of flexibility, provides customers with a variety of space offerings, cabinet layouts and power densities across 18 computer rooms, and features a chiller assist cooling system and an Isolated-Parallel UPS topology. Each base computer room is approximately 9,000 gross square feet, delivers flexible power from 1.0 to 2.0 megawatts of critical load capacity and has a floor to ceiling height of 13 feet. CH2 is concurrently maintainable and has a design Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.15 (annualized).