Equinix ME1
Equinix · Melbourne
- IT live
- 10 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.3 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $143
- White space
- 83k ft²
Inventory
87% occupiedPower
10 MWlive
1.3 MW to lease · 8.7 MW in use
White space
83k ft²total
11k ft² free · 73k ft² occupied
7,742 m² · 1,006 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
$143/kW·mo
13.8¢ industrial · 19.6¢ after PUE 1.42
- Per MW·year
- $1.7M
- This site · 10 MW
- $17M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $715/mo
4.3× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $13M/yr less.
Victoria NEM · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2010
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.421.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Local DNSP plus Equinix renewable contracts.
Cooling
Plant
Air / CRAH
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
5 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 80k m³/yr at 10 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
6On-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
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, VIC
-37.814°, 144.963° · Oceania
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
ME1 is an Equinix IBX in the Melbourne 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.