EIN · Netherlands

Eindhoven
colocation market.

The Brainport region as a real alternative to Amsterdam. Lower latency to large parts of Germany, fewer power constraints, and a compute density that has grown with ASML and the surrounding semiconductor cluster.

Site A Site B 5.8 km North area East area
North area East area no status shown Illustration of how service areas cut across a region — not a map of this market.

Snapshot

The numbers and the named entities.

Connectivity
Direct routes to AMS-IX, DE-CIX (Frankfurt)
Hyperscale presence
Edge nodes only — by design
Sub-regions
High Tech Campus, Acht, Brainport Industries
Typical buyer
R&D, manufacturing, edge AI, semicon-adjacent
Power availability
More headroom than AMS metro; case-by-case

Best for

What this market actually does well.

  • Edge inference and on-prem-feeling cloud workloads
  • Manufacturing and semiconductor data flows
  • EU customers serving central-European users
  • Buyers priced out of Amsterdam who don't actually need AMS-IX

Note: Often the right answer when the brief says 'Amsterdam' but the workload doesn't require it.

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.

Eindhoven — Power availability: More headroom than AMS metro; case-by-case

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.

Eindhoven is the answer to a question most buyers haven’t asked yet: do you actually need AMS, or did your last RFP just say AMS by default? The Brainport region has matured into a defensible alternative for workloads that benefit from lower latency to the south of the country and to large parts of Germany.

Next step

Test the market against your envelope.

Submit an anonymized RFQ. We will tell you within two business days whether Eindhoven is the right fit and which sub-regions to consider — or which other market would serve you better.

Submit an anonymized RFQ →