Microsoft New Zealand North
Microsoft Azure · Whenuapai / Westgate
- IT live
- 36 MW
- Remaining
- 24 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $75
- White space
- 268k ft²
Inventory
60% occupiedPower
60 MWcampus
24 MW to commission · 36 MW in use
White space
446k ft²total
179k ft² free · 268k ft² occupied
41k m² · 17k m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 39 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$75/kW·mo
9.2¢ industrial · 10.3¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $903k
- This site · 36 MW
- $32M/yr
- 25 kW rack
- $1,880/mo
2.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $21M/yr less.
Vector / NZAS-linked · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2024
- Renewable match
- 100%
- Rack density
- 25 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Vector / Transpower. 100 percent renewable via Contact Energy Te Huka 3 geothermal attributes.
Cooling
Plant
Closed-loop liquid
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.
Zero-water closed-loop cooling. Microsoft NZ North targets PUE 1.12 with no evaporative plant.
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
Whenuapai, Auckland, New Zealand
Whenuapai Business Park, Auckland (AZ undisclosed)
-36.791°, 174.630° · Oceania
Tenants / users
Azure
Notes
NZ North opened Dec 2024. Microsoft's first NZ region. Contact Energy 51.4 MW geothermal attribute deal. Zero-water cooling, PUE 1.12. Spark, ACC, Te Pukenga on-net.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.