Equinix ML5
Equinix · Milan
- IT live
- 14 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.7 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $181
- White space
- 80k ft²
Inventory
88% occupiedPower
14 MWlive
1.7 MW to lease · 12.3 MW in use
White space
80k ft²total
9,545 ft² free · 70k ft² occupied
7,390 m² · 887 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
$181/kW·mo
18.8¢ industrial · 24.8¢ after PUE 1.32
- Per MW·year
- $2.2M
- This site · 14 MW
- $30M/yr
- 12 kW rack
- $2,174/mo
5.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $25M/yr less.
Italy industrial · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2021
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 12 kW
- PUE
- 1.321.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Local grid plus Equinix on-site generators, N+1.
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
3On-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
Settimo Milanese, Lombardy, Italy
Settimo Milanese, Milan
45.490°, 9.050° · Europe
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
ML5 is an Equinix IBX in the Milan 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.