Equinix ME5
Equinix · Melbourne
- IT live
- 14 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.8 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $133
- White space
- 80k ft²
Inventory
87% occupiedPower
14 MWlive
1.8 MW to lease · 12.2 MW in use
White space
80k ft²total
10k ft² free · 69k ft² occupied
7,390 m² · 961 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 4.2 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$133/kW·mo
13.8¢ industrial · 18.2¢ after PUE 1.32
- Per MW·year
- $1.6M
- This site · 14 MW
- $22M/yr
- 12 kW rack
- $1,596/mo
4.3× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $17M/yr less.
Victoria NEM · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2023
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 12 kW
- PUE
- 1.321.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Local DNSP plus Equinix renewable contracts.
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
12 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.91 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 112k m³/yr at 14 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.
Equinix Cooling as a Service: CDU-fed direct-to-chip loops for high-density AI cabinets, alongside IDEC/CRAH for standard interconnection cages.
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
-37.840°, 144.990° · Oceania
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
ME5 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.