Operational
Colocation
Air cooled
Tier III

Equinix MA4

Equinix · Manchester

IT live
10 MW
Free to lease
1 MW
$ / kW·mo
$176
White space
83k ft²

Inventory

90% occupied

Power

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

IT live10 MW
Free to lease1 MW
Utility feed13 MW
Campus / planned10 MW

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
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

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
2017
Renewable match
96%
Rack density
5 kW
Voltage
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

0 dry2.50 evaporative

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

7

On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.

Clouds

6

Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.

Location

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, UK

53.488°, -2.238° · Europe

Tenants / users

Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric

Notes

MA4 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.

Operator site

Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.