Equinix AD1
Equinix · Abu Dhabi
- IT live
- 10 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.4 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $71
- White space
- 57k ft²
Inventory
86% occupiedPower
10 MWlive
1.4 MW to lease · 8.6 MW in use
White space
57k ft²total
7,955 ft² free · 49k ft² occupied
5,279 m² · 739 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 3 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$71/kW·mo
7.4¢ industrial · 9.8¢ after PUE 1.32
- Per MW·year
- $856k
- This site · 10 MW
- $8.6M/yr
- 12 kW rack
- $856/mo
2.3× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $4.9M/yr less.
TAQA / EWEC · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2020
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 12 kW
- PUE
- 1.321.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- DEWA / TAQA plus solar.
Cooling
Plant
Evaporative
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
12 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
1.41 L/kWh
evaporative fleet · 2025 · 124k m³/yr at 10 MW
Operator average for evaporative halls, applied here — not a meter on this site. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.
Equinix Cooling as a Service: CDU-fed direct-to-chip loops for high-density AI cabinets, alongside IDEC/CRAH for standard interconnection cages.
Network carriers
5On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
6Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Abu Dhabi, UAE
24.454°, 54.377° · Asia
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
AD1 is an Equinix IBX in the Abu Dhabi metro. Carrier-neutral IBX with Equinix Fabric, Internet Exchange, and cloud on-ramps. Fleet-average PUE was 1.37 in 2025.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.