Equinix ZH5
Equinix · Zurich
- IT live
- 12 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.4 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $142
- White space
- 100k ft²
Inventory
88% occupiedPower
12 MWlive
1.4 MW to lease · 10.6 MW in use
White space
100k ft²total
12k ft² free · 88k ft² occupied
9,290 m² · 1,115 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 3.6 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$142/kW·mo
14.2¢ industrial · 19.5¢ after PUE 1.37
- Per MW·year
- $1.7M
- This site · 12 MW
- $20M/yr
- 5 kW rack
- $710/mo
4.4× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $16M/yr less.
Switzerland industrial · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2019
- Renewable match
- 70%
- Rack density
- 5 kW
- PUE
- 1.371.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Swiss grid, high hydro share.
Cooling
Plant
Evaporative
Liquid
Not deployed
Rack density
5 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
1.41 L/kWh
evaporative fleet · 2025 · 148k m³/yr at 12 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
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
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland
47.384°, 8.549° · Europe
Tenants / users
Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric
Notes
ZH5 is an Equinix IBX in the Zurich 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.