Teraco DB1 Durban
Teraco (Digital Realty) · Durban
- IT live
- 8 MW
- Free to lease
- 1.6 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $102
- White space
- 63k ft²
Inventory
80% occupiedPower
8 MWlive
1.6 MW to lease · 6.4 MW in use
White space
63k ft²total
13k ft² free · 50k ft² occupied
5,806 m² · 1,161 m² free
Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.
Power
About 2 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$102/kW·mo
9.8¢ industrial · 13.9¢ after PUE 1.42
- Per MW·year
- $1.2M
- This site · 8 MW
- $9.8M/yr
- 6 kW rack
- $610/mo
3.1× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $6.6M/yr less.
Eskom KZN · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2014
- Renewable match
- 20%
- Rack density
- 6 kW
- PUE
- 1.421.00 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
6 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.03 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 2,102 m³/yr at 8 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. Teraco 2025 disclosure.
Chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Liquid-ready suites offered on newer campus halls.
Network carriers
5On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
4Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
-29.858°, 31.021° · Africa
Tenants / users
Networks, enterprise, subsea
Notes
Durban Teraco. East-coast subsea and EASSY/SEACOM adjacency.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.