Equinix DC97
Equinix · Ashburn
- IT live
- 4 MW
- Free to lease
- 0.5 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $76
- White space
- 23k ft²
Inventory
88% occupiedPower
4 MWlive
0.5 MW to lease · 3.5 MW in use
White space
23k ft²total
2,727 ft² free · 20k ft² occupied
2,111 m² · 253 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 1.2 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$76/kW·mo
7.3¢ industrial · 10.4¢ after PUE 1.42
- Per MW·year
- $908k
- This site · 4 MW
- $3.6M/yr
- 12 kW rack
- $908/mo
2.3× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $2M/yr less.
Northern Virginia / Dominion · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2011
- Renewable match
- 80%
- Rack density
- 12 kW
- PUE
- 1.421.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Dominion Energy / NOVEC.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
12 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 32k m³/yr at 4 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. 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
8On-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
Herndon, Virginia, United States
Herndon, VA (SCIF)
38.970°, -77.386° · North America
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
DC97 is an Equinix IBX in the Ashburn 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.