Microsoft Azure France Central
Microsoft Azure · France Central
- IT live
- 70 MW
- Remaining
- 40 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $85
- White space
- 491k ft²
Inventory
64% occupiedPower
110 MWcampus
40 MW to commission · 70 MW in use
White space
772k ft²total
281k ft² free · 491k ft² occupied
72k m² · 26k m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 67.5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$85/kW·mo
10.4¢ industrial · 11.6¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $1M
- This site · 70 MW
- $71M/yr
- 25 kW rack
- $2,126/mo
3.3× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $49M/yr less.
France Enedis / Ile-de-France · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2018
- Renewable match
- 100%
- Rack density
- 25 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- RTE / Enedis. Dual MV inlets plus on-site diesel. Nuclear-heavy French grid (ARENH).
Cooling
Plant
Closed-loop liquid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
25 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.27 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 166k m³/yr at 70 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Microsoft FY2025 water intensity disclosure.
Closed-loop facility-scale liquid on AI halls; air economization on CPU buildings.
Network carriers
6On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
1Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Greater Paris (AZ undisclosed)
48.920°, 2.250° · Europe
Tenants / users
Azure
Notes
Azure France Central. Multi-AZ Paris region. Dual-site with France South Marseille.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.