Digital Realty NBO1 Nairobi One
Digital Realty · Karen
- IT live
- 6 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.3 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $163
- White space
- 42k ft²
Inventory
78% occupiedPower
6 MWlive
1.3 MW to lease · 4.7 MW in use
White space
42k ft²total
9,167 ft² free · 33k ft² occupied
3,871 m² · 852 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 1.5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$163/kW·mo
16.2¢ industrial · 22.4¢ after PUE 1.38
- Per MW·year
- $2M
- This site · 6 MW
- $12M/yr
- 8 kW rack
- $1,306/mo
5.1× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $9.4M/yr less.
Kenya Power · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- 2N
- Opened
- 2019
- Renewable match
- 20%
- Rack density
- 8 kW
- PUE
- 1.381.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Kenya Power (KPLC) plus on-site generators. Dual utility where available.
Cooling
Plant
Air / CRAH
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
8 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.59 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 31k m³/yr at 6 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Digital Realty 2025 Impact Report.
Chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Liquid-ready suites offered on newer campus halls.
Network carriers
6On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
5Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Karen, Nairobi
-1.320°, 36.705° · Africa
Tenants / users
Cloud, networks, enterprise, KIXP — 100+ networks
Notes
Former iColo Nairobi One. Carrier-neutral Karen campus. Satellite teleport on site.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.