Operational
Colocation
Air cooled
Tier III

PAIX Johannesburg

PAIX · Johannesburg

IT live
5 MW
Free to lease
0.9 MW
$ / kW·mo
$95
White space
35k ft²

Inventory

82% occupied

Power

5 MWlive

0.9 MW to lease · 4.1 MW in use

White space

35k ft²total

6,250 ft² free · 28k ft² occupied

3,226 m² · 581 m² free

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

Power

IT live5 MW
Free to lease0.9 MW
Utility feed10 MW
Campus / planned8 MW

About 5 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$95/kW·mo

9.4¢ industrial · 13¢ after PUE 1.38

Per MW·year
$1.1M
This site · 5 MW
$5.7M/yr
8 kW rack
$758/mo
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

2.9× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $3.7M/yr less.

Eskom Gauteng · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy
N+1
Opened
2018
Renewable match
20%
Rack density
8 kW
Voltage
PUE
1.381.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source
Eskom plus on-site diesel and solar. Extended runtime sized for load-shedding ride-through.

Cooling

Plant

Air / CRAH

Liquid

Not deployed

Rack density

8 kW

H100-eq

WUE

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

Chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Liquid-ready suites offered on newer campus halls.

Network carriers

5

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

Clouds

4

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

Location

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Johannesburg

-26.200°, 28.040° · Africa

Tenants / users

IX, networks, content, enterprise

Notes

Packet Clearing House / PAIX interconnection hall.

Operator site

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