Equinix FR5
Equinix · Frankfurt
- IT live
- 18 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.6 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $191
- White space
- 150k ft²
Inventory
91% occupiedPower
18 MWlive
1.6 MW to lease · 16.4 MW in use
White space
150k ft²total
14k ft² free · 137k ft² occupied
14k m² · 1,254 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 5.4 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$191/kW·mo
18.4¢ industrial · 26.1¢ after PUE 1.42
- Per MW·year
- $2.3M
- This site · 18 MW
- $41M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $954/mo
5.7× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $34M/yr less.
Germany industrial · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2012
- Renewable match
- 96%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.421.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Mainova / German grid plus Equinix PPAs.
Cooling
Plant
Air / CRAH
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
5 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 143k m³/yr at 18 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.
IDEC / chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Campus Cooling as a Service is available for high-density cabinets on request.
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
Kleyerstrasse, Frankfurt
50.107°, 8.650° · Europe
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
FR5 is an Equinix IBX in the Frankfurt 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.