Equinix JN1
Equinix · Johannesburg
- IT live
- 10 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.8 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $94
- White space
- 83k ft²
Inventory
82% occupiedPower
10 MWlive
1.8 MW to lease · 8.2 MW in use
White space
83k ft²total
15k ft² free · 68k ft² occupied
7,742 m² · 1,394 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
$94/kW·mo
9.4¢ industrial · 12.9¢ after PUE 1.37
- Per MW·year
- $1.1M
- This site · 10 MW
- $11M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $470/mo
2.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $7.4M/yr less.
Eskom Gauteng · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2017
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.371.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Eskom plus on-site generation for load-shedding ride-through.
Cooling
Plant
Evaporative
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
5 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.
IDEC / chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Campus Cooling as a Service is available for high-density cabinets on request.
Network carriers
7On-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
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
-26.204°, 28.047° · Africa
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
JN1 is an Equinix IBX in the Johannesburg 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.