Equinix FR16x
Equinix · Frankfurt
- Planned IT
- 36 MW
- Free to lease
- 28.8 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $172
- White space
- 113k ft²
Inventory
20% occupiedPower
36 MWlive
28.8 MW to lease · 7.2 MW in use
White space
113k ft²total
90k ft² free · 23k ft² occupied
10k m² · 8,361 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
Power cost
$172/kW·mo
18.4¢ industrial · 23.6¢ after PUE 1.28
- Per MW·year
- $2.1M
- This site · 36 MW
- $74M/yr
- 30 kW rack
- $5,158/mo
5.7× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $61M/yr less.
Germany industrial · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- 2N
- Opened
- 2025
- Renewable match
- 96%
- Rack density
- 30 kW
- PUE
- 1.281.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Mainova / German grid plus Equinix PPAs.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
30 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 287k m³/yr at 36 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
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Friesstrasse, Frankfurt
50.141°, 8.742° · Europe
Tenants / users
Hyperscale, AI clouds
Notes
FR16x is an Equinix xScale in the Frankfurt metro. xScale wholesale building for hyperscale and AI deployments. Fleet-average PUE was 1.37 in 2025.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.