Microsoft Azure Sweden Central
Microsoft Azure · Gävle / Sandviken
- IT live
- 180 MW
- Remaining
- 320 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $41
- White space
- 2M ft²
Inventory
36% occupiedPower
500 MWcampus
320 MW to commission · 180 MW in use
White space
5.4M ft²total
3.5M ft² free · 2M ft² occupied
504k m² · 323k m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 445 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$41/kW·mo
5¢ industrial · 5.6¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $491k
- This site · 180 MW
- $88M/yr
- 30 kW rack
- $1,226/mo
1.6× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $32M/yr less.
Sweden SE2 · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2021
- Renewable match
- 100%
- Rack density
- 30 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Svenska kraftnät / Vattenfall. Dual feeds. Hydro-nuclear Swedish grid.
Cooling
Plant
Closed-loop liquid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
30 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.27 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 426k m³/yr at 180 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Microsoft FY2025 water intensity disclosure.
Closed-loop liquid on AI halls. 100 percent carbon-free matching with Vattenfall.
Network carriers
4On-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
Gävle, Gävleborg, Sweden
Gävle / Sandviken corridor
60.675°, 17.141° · Europe
Tenants / users
Azure
Notes
Sweden Central region across Gävle, Sandviken and Staffanstorp. 2024 expansion added AI GPUs. One of Microsoft's most sustainable European campuses.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.