Expanding
Hyperscale
Liquid cooling
Tier III

Microsoft Azure Italy North

Microsoft Azure · Italy North

IT live
48 MW
Remaining
42 MW
$ / kW·mo
$155
White space
402k ft²

Inventory

53% occupied

Power

90 MWcampus

42 MW to commission · 48 MW in use

White space

753k ft²total

352k ft² free · 402k ft² occupied

70k m² · 33k m² free

Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.

Power

IT live48 MW
Remaining42 MW
Utility feed113 MW
Campus / planned90 MW

About 64.5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$155/kW·mo

18.6¢ industrial · 21.2¢ after PUE 1.14

Per MW·year
$1.9M
This site · 48 MW
$89M/yr
25 kW rack
$3,870/mo
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

5.8× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $74M/yr less.

Italy industrial / Milan · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy
N+1
Opened
2023
Renewable match
70%
Rack density
25 kW
PUE
1.141.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source
Terna / Enel. Dual MV inlets plus on-site diesel. Gas-marginal Italian grid.

Cooling

Plant

Closed-loop liquid

Liquid

Deployed

Rack density

25 kW

H100-eq

WUE

0.27 L/kWh

fleet avg · 2025 · 114k m³/yr at 48 MW

0 dry2.50 evaporative

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

6

On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.

Clouds

1

Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.

Location

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Greater Milan (AZ undisclosed)

45.502°, 9.108° · Europe

Tenants / users

Azure

Notes

Azure Italy North. Multi-AZ Milan region. Microsoft has committed further Italy investment on top of the live campus.

Operator site

Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.