NIKHEF / AMS-IX Science Park

NIKHEF · Amsterdam Science Park

IT live: 2 MW
Free to lease: 0.2 MW
$ / kW·mo: $146
White space: 21k ft²

Inventory

91% occupied

Power

2 MWlive

0.2 MW to lease · 1.8 MW in use

White space

21k ft²total

1,500 ft² free · 19k ft² occupied

1,935 m² · 139 m² free

Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.

Power

IT live2 MW

Free to lease0.2 MW

Utility feed2.5 MW

Campus / planned2 MW

About 0.5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$146/kW·mo

15.6¢ industrial · 20¢ after PUE 1.28

Per MW·year: $1.7M
This site · 2 MW: $3.5M/yr
5 kW rack: $729/mo

3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

4.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $2.8M/yr less.

Amsterdam metro / Liander 50 kV · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy: N+1
Opened: 1994
Renewable match: 100%
Rack density: 5 kW
Voltage: 400 V
10 kV
PUE: 1.281.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source: TenneT / Liander. Dual MV inlets plus on-site diesel. Dutch wind-plus-gas mix; DDA halls buy 100 percent certified green power.

Cooling

Plant

Air / CRAH

Liquid

Not deployed

Rack density

5 kW

H100-eq

—

WUE

—

Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.

Chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Dutch free-air hours most of the year. Not an AI factory unless noted.

Network carriers

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

Clouds

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

Location

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam

52.356°, 4.951° · Europe

Tenants / users

AMS-IX core, SURF, NetherLight, research networks, 200-plus peers

Notes

National Institute for Subatomic Physics. Original AMS-IX switch hotel. Dark fibre to Digital Realty AMS9/AMS17 and Equinix AM3/AM4. Research and peering, not wholesale colo. The reason Amsterdam is a FLAP-D market.

Operator site

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