Microsoft South Africa West
Microsoft Azure · Cape Town Cloud Region
- IT live
- 24 MW
- Remaining
- 16 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $88
- White space
- 100k ft²
Inventory
60% occupiedPower
40 MWcampus
16 MW to commission · 24 MW in use
White space
167k ft²total
67k ft² free · 100k ft² occupied
15k m² · 6,194 m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 26 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$88/kW·mo
10.2¢ industrial · 12¢ after PUE 1.18
- Per MW·year
- $1.1M
- This site · 24 MW
- $25M/yr
- 20 kW rack
- $1,757/mo
3.2× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $17M/yr less.
Eskom / City of Cape Town · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- 2N
- Opened
- 2019
- Renewable match
- 60%
- Rack density
- 20 kW
- PUE
- 1.181.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Eskom plus on-site diesel and solar. Extended runtime sized for load-shedding ride-through.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
20 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.27 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 57k m³/yr at 24 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Microsoft FY2025 water intensity disclosure.
Hybrid CRAH plus CDU-fed direct-to-chip loops for high-density AI cabinets.
Network carriers
7On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
1Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Cape Town metro
-33.900°, 18.600° · Africa
Tenants / users
Azure
Notes
Azure South Africa West. Geo-pair to Johannesburg.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.