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What Eindhoven gives you
A short drive, a local team and enough power for a normal rack. For test gear you touch daily, that wins.
From Eindhoven
Colocation in Amsterdam from Eindhoven
Eindhoven is 3 ms and an hour and a half from the Amsterdam halls. Brainport designs and builds the hardware; Amsterdam has the power ceilings, the exchange capacity and the halls to run it at density. Advisor, not reseller: you contract directly with the datacenter.
Distance and latency
Amsterdam from Eindhoven
- Round-trip latency to Amsterdam
- 3 ms on a direct carrier circuit. Close enough for synchronous replication on most databases; a ping over the public internet will read higher.
- Road distance
- About 120 km to Amsterdam city centre, 125 km to Schiphol.
- Drive time
- About 1 h 45 over the A2 outside rush hour, to the centre or to Schiphol. Plan move-in day around it.
- Suitable as a DR site?
- Yes. Another grid region, 120 km of separation, 3 ms round-trip. The pair we see most from Brabant.
The honest comparison
Why not colocate in Eindhoven?
Eindhoven has datacenters and they are not bad. For systems that talk to machines on your own site, staying in Brabant is the right call. The gap shows up at the top end: power per rack, liquid cooling, GPU density, and how many carriers and IX ports you can put in front of it. In Amsterdam we place racks from 3 to 70 kW, in halls where AMS-IX and NL-ix are reachable from the building and that are already built for the density your training cluster will need next year. That is the case for racking Brainport hardware 120 km north of where it was designed.
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What you give up
Density and interconnection. 20 kW and up, liquid cooling and a full carrier list are Amsterdam questions.
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When we'd say stay
Machine-side systems, a lab you walk into, or a rack that never leaves 3 kW. We point you at a regional operator instead.
Who it's for
Who does this from Eindhoven
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Hardware or semicon firm needing GPU density
Training and simulation clusters that no longer fit in an office room. You need 20 kW and up per rack, an honest answer on liquid cooling, and a hall that can still grow. We size it to the gear, not to a brochure number.
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Machine builder with test systems and data retention
Years of test data, machines that have to stay reachable, and an insurer asking questions. You want a plain comparison between the room you have and a rack with a real SLA.
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SaaS company out of the Brainport supply chain
Your customers are spread across Europe and your servers are still in Brabant. You want AMS-IX, NL-ix and a second carrier in the building, plus room to grow a rack at a time.
How it works
How it works from here
- 01Tell us what you needMail the specs from Eindhoven. Five minutes, no visit needed.
- 02We engineer and negotiateWe size racks, kW and campus, including whether your density needs liquid cooling, and negotiate.
- 03We fast-track the introductionThe right account manager gets a filled-in brief. You get a real quote.
- 04You contract with the datacenterContract, invoice and SLA are with the datacenter. We stay on as technical contact.
We walk the hall with you in Amsterdam, or do it on a call if the A2 is not worth it that week. Most people from Eindhoven come once for the hall and once for move-in.
Questions from Eindhoven
Remote hands, latency and staying put.
Do I have to drive to Amsterdam for remote hands?
No. Remote hands is staffed in the building around the clock and ordered in the operator portal. The drive is for the walk-through and for move-in day.
How fast is Amsterdam from Eindhoven?
About 3 ms round-trip on a direct carrier circuit, the figure from our latency map; a ping over the public internet reads higher. It is indicative, so verify it against your own carrier before you design replication around it.
Can I get GPU density in Amsterdam?
Yes. With liquid cooling we usually place 20 to 70 kW a rack, and some halls take more. Which hall depends on availability, so ask early: the city limits new datacenter build and capacity is finite.
Would you ever tell me to stay in Eindhoven?
Yes, if the systems belong next to the machines. The datacenter pays us a fee, but not for talking you into a move that does not fit.
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The pages people from Eindhoven open next.
Colocation in Amsterdam
What we place, in which campus, and what sits in the price.
Disaster recovery in Amsterdam
Second site, replication distance, and what to ask the operator for.
Amsterdam Science Park
Nikhef, both exchanges, and the halls around them.
Schiphol-Rijk
The campus nearest the airport, and the workloads it suits.
Amsterdam-Zuidoost
Power, capacity and the south-east halls.
Pricing
How a rack price is built up, and where the negotiation room is.
From other cities
Placing racks in Amsterdam from Eindhoven?
Tell us your specs. We'll come back with a real, negotiated quote from the datacenter, not a range from a brochure.
Independent advisor, free to you: the datacenter pays our fee. You contract directly with Digital Realty, NorthC or another Amsterdam operator.
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