Xfernet: Chicago Data Center CH1 (Cermak Rd)

The Xfernet Chicago CH1 (Cermak Rd) Data Center is located at 350 East Cermak Road, Chicago, IL, USA. 

 This address is co-located in a major interconnection campus in Chicago’s Cermak colocation cluster—one of the city's central hubs for networking, carrier, and cloud infrastructure.

Its strategic positioning offers proximity to downtown Chicago, major transit routes, and interconnect-rich buildings around the area. As part of the greater Cermak / Cermak Road colocation environment, the facility is well placed to serve enterprises, carriers, and cloud providers seeking low-latency and high-density connectivity in the Midwest.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

Because official internal data for Xfernet CH1 is not available publicly, the following are inferred or drawn from the co-located building environment. Use these as reference points, not assured specs:

• Multiple floors (the building comprises multiple levels of colocation / telecom floors in the Cermak campus)
• Rated floor load capacity in the building: 250 lb/ft² (≈ 11.97 kN/m²) 
• Cabinet power density typical in this building: 2.4 – 3.0 kW per rack 
• UPS configuration: Distributed redundant (N+1) 
• Standby power: six 1,500 kW diesel generators (N+2 redundancy) for the Equinix CH1 operations in this building 
• Cooling: air-cooled chillers and air handling systems, with hot-aisle containment and redundancy (N+1) 
• Fire protection: double interlock pre-action dry-pipe suppression system with aspirated detection (VESDA) 

🔐 Security & Compliance

• 24/7 onsite security and operations monitoring (building-level) 
• Electronic access control including biometric readers, mantraps, and fiber vault for cabling security 
• CCTV surveillance with at least 90 days retention and motion detection 
• Secure loading / staging zones and managed deliveries (common in these colocation campuses)
• Certifications for the building operations: ISO 27001, ISO 50001, PCI DSS, SOC 1 & SOC 2, HIPAA, HECVAT, NIST 800-53 High, ISO 22301

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral environment: the Cermak campus is known to host many fiber and network providers (for Equinix operations) 
• Two diverse fiber entry points into the building
• Meet-Me Rooms in this facility structure to support cross-connects and interconnection services 
• Access to a large ecosystem of regional/global carriers, dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet, MPLS, IP transit, peering, and cloud interconnects (as part of building / campus) 
• Cross-connects: single-mode fiber, multi-mode fiber, CAT5/6, etc. 

💼 Who It Serves

• Enterprises seeking a presence in central Chicago with access to midwestern and national connectivity
• Carriers, ISPs and network providers needing colocation in a highly interconnected building
• Cloud providers and content delivery networks needing peering and interconnection in Chicago
• Businesses requiring hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity with access to dense network ecosystems
• Companies needing reliable infrastructure with robust security and redundancy in a mature colocation campus