Silicon Valley data centers and colocation

Main operators in Silicon Valley

Here, Digital Realty operates 11 buildings and Equinix operates 7. Hurricane Electric Fremont 2 leads on connectivity, holding 303 networks.Equinix SV1/SV5/SV10 - Silicon Valley, San Jose comes next with 284. More networks under one roof means more carrier options, plus cross connects that are cheaper and shorter (a cable joining your rack with another company's).

• Digital Realty11 buildings
• Equinix7 buildings
• CoreSite7 buildings
• Centersquare4 buildings
• Hurricane Electric3 buildings
• VPLS3 buildings
• Energy Group Networks1 building
• QTS Data Centers1 building
• Cologix1 building
• EdgeConneX1 building

Internet exchanges serving Silicon Valley

A shared switch where networks trade traffic directly is called an internet exchange. If you're in a building on the exchange, one port connects you to its members.

• Any2West 264 members, 7 buildings here
• EVIX 189 members, 1 building here
• Equinix San Jose 184 members, 5 buildings here
• FCIX 142 members, 2 buildings here
• FREMIX 110 members, 1 building here
• SFMIX 93 members, 17 buildings here
• BBIX US-West 88 members, 1 building here
• Equinix Palo Alto 69 members, 3 buildings here
• Lambda-IX 22 members, 1 building here
• ARIX 20 members, 1 building here
• MegaIX Bay Area 18 members, 13 buildings here
• Zero Internet eXchange San Jose 15 members, 3 buildings here
• Pacific Wave 15 members, 2 buildings here
• DACS-IX West 14 members, 1 building here
• Global Peer Exchange 6 members, 1 building here
• Ninja-IX Bay Area 5 members, 2 buildings here
• Port IX 2 members, 1 building here
• NASA-AIX 1 member, 1 building here

Colocation costs in Silicon Valley

Add the list price of a rack to the Silicon Valley market rent above. One full rack using 5 to 10 kW comes to roughly $1,450 to $3,090 a month.

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Building locations

Buildings in the Silicon Valley market sit in Santa Clara (33), San Jose (12), Sunnyvale (5), Fremont (2), Palo Alto (1), Milpitas (1), Mountain View (1) and Newark (1).