Bay Area Colocation Space

Santa Clara hosts the headquarters of NVIDIA, Intel, AMD and Marvell, and is the natural landing point for the world's largest cloud and AI ecosystem. Equinix's Great Oaks campus (SV14-SV17) connects to 260+ networks. Power is constrained — Santa Clara has experienced multiple grid-capacity-driven moratoriums on new builds — making available capacity premium.

Equinix's largest Silicon Valley campus, located at 3030 Corvin Drive, Santa Clara. Includes SV14, SV15, SV16 and SV17. Provides connectivity to 260+ networks, cloud service providers, content companies and social media platforms — making it the densest interconnection hub in the Bay Area.

CoreSite's SV9 is NVIDIA DGX-Ready certified — power, cooling and interconnection optimised for high-density AI/ML workloads. Several Santa Clara wholesale operators (Vantage, QTS, CyrusOne) host AI-specific deployments at 50-100 kW per rack densities. For massive AI training campuses, operators are increasingly building outside Santa Clara (Reno, Phoenix, Hillsboro) due to power constraints.

Power. Santa Clara's grid has been at or near capacity for years, leading to moratoriums on new builds and premium pricing for existing capacity. Land is also scarce and expensive. The combined effect: Bay Area colocation pricing sits at the top end of the US market, particularly for AI-density deployments.

Bay Area wins when you need physical proximity to cloud providers (AWS US-West-1, GCP us-west2, Azure West US), the AI/ML ecosystem (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD), or low-latency to West Coast tech HQs. Phoenix, Reno, Hillsboro, Salt Lake City offer better economics for capacity that doesn't need this proximity. Many enterprises run a "cloud-on-ramp pod" in Santa Clara plus their bulk infrastructure in a cheaper market.

Take the free 2-minute assessment to specify cabinet count, power density (especially for AI workloads), interconnection requirements and timeline. Given Bay Area capacity constraints, we'll surface availability across Santa Clara plus alternative West Coast options where appropriate.