Equinix MA3
Equinix · Manchester
- IT live
- 10 MW
- Free to lease
- 1 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $176
- White space
- 83k ft²
Inventory
90% occupiedPower
10 MWlive
1 MW to lease · 9 MW in use
White space
83k ft²total
8,333 ft² free · 75k ft² occupied
7,742 m² · 774 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
$176/kW·mo
17.6¢ industrial · 24.1¢ after PUE 1.37
- Per MW·year
- $2.1M
- This site · 10 MW
- $21M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $880/mo
5.5× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $17M/yr less.
Electricity North West · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2014
- Renewable match
- 96%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.371.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- UK Power Networks plus Equinix renewable PPAs.
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
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Manchester, UK
53.484°, -2.240° · Europe
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
MA3 is an Equinix IBX in the Manchester 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.