Microsoft South Africa North
Microsoft Azure · Johannesburg Cloud Region
- IT live
- 36 MW
- Remaining
- 19 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $81
- White space
- 129k ft²
Inventory
65% occupiedPower
55 MWcampus
19 MW to commission · 36 MW in use
White space
196k ft²total
68k ft² free · 129k ft² occupied
18k m² · 6,304 m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 32.8 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$81/kW·mo
9.4¢ industrial · 11.1¢ after PUE 1.18
- Per MW·year
- $972k
- This site · 36 MW
- $35M/yr
- 25 kW rack
- $2,024/mo
2.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $23M/yr less.
Eskom Gauteng · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- 2N
- Opened
- 2019
- Renewable match
- 60%
- Rack density
- 25 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
25 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.27 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 85k m³/yr at 36 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
6On-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
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Johannesburg metro
-26.050°, 28.100° · Africa
Tenants / users
Azure
Notes
Azure South Africa North. Pair region with Cape Town.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.