AMS · Netherlands

Amsterdam

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.

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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