Operational Equinix colocation facility in Amsterdam, formerly Telecity AMS5. Its first phase opened in early 2012. Telecity reported a 9 MW full-build customer-capacity design; current commissioned IT load and facility/grid capacity remain unresolved. Secondary power figures have differing definitions and cannot be combined.
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Site / building photo
AM5 property view, identified by Baxtel as formerly Telecity AMS 5; capture date unknown.
Published date unknown · Captured date unknown · Checked 2026-10-09
Research-selected property image; reviewer must confirm site identity, suitability and rights before publication.
Baxtel labels the source as Baxtel. Photographer, capture date and reuse licence are undisclosed; permission must be resolved before import. Publication and capture dates were not independently established.
Site profile
Operator
Equinix
Ownership
Unknown / not established
Business model / scale
Colocation / Unknown
Region / metro
Noord-Holland / Amsterdam
City / locality
Amsterdam
Address
Schepenbergweg 42, 1105 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands
Location
Approximate AM5 property point from PeeringDB's facility geocode, closely corroborated by an address geocode for the operator-confirmed Schepenbergweg 42. Municipal address evidence confirms the property locality. Geocoder independence and building boundaries are unresolved; no surveyed or Google Maps place-marker precision is claimed. Precision: approximate · 52.293351, 4.945054 View location on map →
Parent
Not assigned
Location detail
Approximate AM5 property point from PeeringDB's facility geocode, closely corroborated by an address geocode for the operator-confirmed Schepenbergweg 42. Municipal address evidence confirms the property locality. Geocoder independence and building boundaries are unresolved; no surveyed or Google Maps place-marker precision is claimed.. Coordinate precision: approximate. Street-map detail does not increase the accuracy of the sourced point.
Schepenbergweg 42, 1105 AT Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Capacity evidence
Statements retain their dates, definitions and development scope. Do not add these rows together.
Claim / measurement
Scope and status
As of
Evidence and accounting
13.5 MW Unspecified power
AM5 facility; reported access to power Operational · unclear
Excluded from capacity totals. As_of is the retrieval date, not a disclosed capacity effective date. Undefined power basis; differs from the municipal 2020 band. Other entries on this page contain apparent unit/data errors, reducing confidence. Requires reviewer reconciliation.
Excluded from capacity totals. As_of is the announcement date. Source calls this customer capacity, interpreted as IT/customer power. First phase had opened, but 9 MW was the future full-build figure; commissioned delivery and phase allocations were not stated. Not additive to secondary facility/access figures.
13 MW Unspecified power
AM5 facility headline power capacity Operational · unclear
Excluded from capacity totals. Undated secondary listing; detailed power field is blank. Basis and effective date unavailable. Differs from InterIX's 13.5 MW; neither reconciles current delivered IT load with the historical 9 MW design.
Development timeline
2017-05 · actual acquisition
AM5 property acquisition
Equinix reported acquisition of AM5 land and building for €26.7 million, settling its prior financing arrangement; the disclosure also identifies a ground-lease interest.
June 19, 2012 Telecity announcement reports that the first phase opened earlier that year. Exact opening date and initial power allocation are undisclosed.
2020 report; undefined site-specific basis. Range cannot be represented faithfully as a single capacity claim and does not establish greater-than-5-MW eligibility.
€26.7 million transaction in May 2017; €6.7 million allocated to ground lease
Ground-lease allocation amortized through December 2054. Disclosure does not identify today's legal title holder, ground lessor or current lease conditions.
Acid Clouds: Equinix AM5 exterior, photographs credited to Niels Schrader and Roel Backaert
Original publication dated September 11, 2019. Image pixels could not be inspected; capture date and reproduction permission unresolved. Source: https://onlineopen.org/acid-clouds
Pages 23 and 38 list Equinix AM5 on Schepenbergweg in Zuidoost/Amstel III with a 1–10 MW power band; distinguishes installed, contracted and consumed power.
Public property-data intermediary places the address in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland; reports parcel WPK02 M 992, 10,890 m², and building ID 0363100012239632.
Page 149 records the May 2017 AM5 land/building acquisition for €26.7 million and allocation to a ground lease amortized through December 2054; also records the January 2016 TelecityGroup acquisition.
AM5 property view, identified by Baxtel as formerly Telecity AMS 5; capture date unknown. Original image: https://cdn.baxtel.com/data-center/equinix-amsterdam-am5/photos/flickity_display_Equinix-Amsterdam-AM5-AM5-was-formerly-Telecity-AMS-5.jpg
Current operator page identifies AM5 and its Netherlands street address; offers cabinets/cages and interconnection, and reports 6,000 m² colocation space, N+1 UPS and N+2 cooling.
Matching facility/address and Equinix organization; displayed geocode 52.293351, 4.945054. Describes South East campus connectivity across separate IBXs. Record displays last update September 26, 2025.
Municipal address record identifies Schepenbergweg 42, 1105AT Amsterdam, Zuidoost, Amstel III/Bullewijk, with an industrial-use object in use. Address-validity date is not a facility opening date.
Matching address, operational designation, North Holland province, Amsterdam metro and former Telecity AMS 5 name. Lists 2012 construction year and exterior/satellite references.
Public reproduction of Telecity's announcement: Southeast AMS5 first phase opened earlier in 2012; ultimate customer floor area 6,000 m² and customer capacity 9 MW. Describes seasonal aquifer thermal energy storage.
Reproduced Telecity/AMS-IX announcement describes AMS5 under construction in Amsterdam Southeast, with 9 MW and 6,000 m² design; AMS-IX service planned from opening.
Official ground-energy plan lists BES Telecitygroup at Schepenbergweg 42, Amsterdam-Zuidoost, record 84404. Corroborates site-specific ground-energy infrastructure; does not establish electrical capacity or current water consumption.
Printed page 149, PDF page index 148: May 2017 AM5 land/building transaction for €26.7 million; financing arrangement terminated, and €6.7 million allocated to a ground lease amortized through December 2054.
Matching address and South East campus description; headline power capacity 13.00 MW, while detailed power-capacity field is blank. Electrical basis and effective date absent.
Municipal policy lists AM5 on Schepenbergweg in the 1–10 MW band. Historical range has no sufficiently clear site-specific electrical basis for choosing one MW value.
Dutch industry report states Uniserver was taking 114 racks in the new AMS5. Historical customer allocation, not total facility rack capacity or current occupancy.
Zenlayer identifies its AMS4 service location at Schepenbergweg 42, powered by Equinix, with bare metal, transit, CDN and colocation offerings. Its AMS4 code must not be confused with Equinix AM4.
Customer's technical guide names Equinix AM5 Amsterdam among its three geographically separated data centers. Portfolio-wide PUE range cannot be assigned specifically to AM5.
Original publication captions an exterior photograph as Equinix AM5 Datacenter, Amsterdam and attributes photographs to Niels Schrader and Roel Backaert. Linked image fetch timed out; capture date and reuse permission unresolved.
