AMS · Netherlands
Amsterdam
colocation market.
Europe's densest interconnect, with hyperscale capacity in the metro region. Land scarcity is real; power constraints in some sub-regions are real. The market still rewards specificity.
Snapshot
The numbers and the named entities.
- Lead exchange
- AMS-IX (~9 Tbps peak)
- Hyperscale presence
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle
- Sub-regions
- Schiphol-Rijk, Science Park, Amsterdam Zuidoost, Almere
- Typical buyer
- EU enterprise, AI/ML, financial services, hosting
- Power availability
- Constrained in central, growing in Almere/Lelystad belt
Best for
What this market actually does well.
- Direct cloud on-ramps to AWS / Azure / GCP / OCI
- Latency-sensitive trading and ad-tech
- EU sovereignty plays anchored at the most-peered exchange
- GPU-ready halls in newer hyperscale-adjacent campuses
Note: Power moratoriums hit specific sub-regions hard. We track which campuses can actually deliver and which are paper capacity.
Grid and power
Grid capacity decides this shortlist, not floor space.
Across the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the binding constraint on colocation is the grid connection, not the hall. Grid congestion is distributed unevenly and is decided per substation — a sub-region question, never a national average. A facility can market capacity it has not been granted.
Amsterdam — Power availability: Constrained in central, growing in Almere/Lelystad belt
That distinction is the first filter we apply. Before a facility reaches your shortlist we establish whether the capacity is contracted or aspirational, and what the connection queue looks like for the specific campus rather than the metro.
Amsterdam is what most buyers think of first, often for the wrong reason. The latency story to AMS-IX is real, the hyperscale on-ramp story is real, and the resulting price floor is also real. We use Amsterdam where the specific buyer profile actually benefits from the density premium — and we route elsewhere when the profile doesn’t.
Next step
Test the market against your envelope.
Submit an anonymized RFQ. We will tell you within two business days whether Amsterdam is the right fit and which sub-regions to consider — or which other market would serve you better.
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