Digital Realty NBO2 Nairobi Two
Digital Realty · Karen
- IT live
- 6.4 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.4 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $156
- White space
- 36k ft²
Inventory
78% occupiedPower
6.4 MWlive
1.4 MW to lease · 5.0 MW in use
White space
36k ft²total
8,011 ft² free · 28k ft² occupied
3,378 m² · 744 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 8.6 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$156/kW·mo
16.2¢ industrial · 21.4¢ after PUE 1.32
- Per MW·year
- $1.9M
- This site · 6.4 MW
- $12M/yr
- 12 kW rack
- $1,873/mo
5.1× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $9.6M/yr less.
Kenya Power · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- 2N
- Opened
- 2026
- Renewable match
- 20%
- Rack density
- 12 kW
- PUE
- 1.321.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Kenya Power (KPLC) plus on-site generators. Dual utility where available.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
12 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.59 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 33k m³/yr at 6.4 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Digital Realty 2025 Impact Report.
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
5Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
Karen, Nairobi (300 m from NBO1)
-1.318°, 36.708° · Africa
Tenants / users
Cloud, networks, enterprise, two IXes
Notes
Opened September 2026. Completes iColo-to-Digital Realty rebrand in Kenya and Mozambique. Campus master plan toward 20 MW + captive substation.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.