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Dutch-market production
Your users, your auditors and your staff are in the Netherlands. A Dutch operator with Dutch support is one less thing to explain in a procurement review.
Datacenters we work with
NorthC Amsterdam: colocation with an independent advisor
NorthC is one of the operators we work with in Amsterdam, alongside Digital Realty and others. We are not the operator and not a reseller: the datacenter pays us a fee, you contract directly with them, and nothing we recommend is exclusive.
The campus in numbers
What a NorthC placement in Amsterdam looks like.
Indicative figures for the Amsterdam market, not a quote and not a spec sheet. Ask us for the current site, hall and availability before you plan anything around them.
- Amsterdam metro
- NorthC runs datacenters in several Dutch cities, five of them in the Amsterdam region: Amsterdam 1 in Sloterdijk, Amsterdam 2 in Zuidoost, Oude Meer by Schiphol, Aalsmeer and Almere. We place into all five; ask us which hall has space now, because availability moves.
- 3–70 kW per rack
- The band we usually place. The real ceiling is set by the hall you go into and its cooling design, so ask per hall.
- AMS-IX · NL-ix
- Both exchanges have points of presence in NorthC buildings in the Amsterdam region, though not in every building. Check the in-building carrier and exchange list before you order ports.
- A regional second site
- NorthC has a footprint beyond Amsterdam. If a second site outside the Randstad is a better disaster recovery answer than a second Amsterdam hall, that is worth asking about.
- 10–40 minutes by road
- Indicative, outside rush hour: NorthC lists five sites in the Amsterdam region, two in the city, two near Schiphol and one in Almere. From the city centre the two city sites are about 10 to 20 minutes away, the two near Schiphol about half an hour and Almere about 40 minutes; from Schiphol the airport-side sites are under 15 minutes and Almere about 40. The exact address decides this; ask before you build a move-in plan around it.
Most NorthC Amsterdam-area sites hold
ISO 27001 · ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 · SOC 2 · PCI-DSSWhat we'd place here
Three workloads that fit a NorthC hall.
A shortlist, not a rule. We compare NorthC against the other Amsterdam operators on power, carriers and price before recommending either.
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Leaving your own server room
Office move, insurance or the power bill. A handful of racks with a clear SLA, sized against the gear you run rather than the rack you happen to own.
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A disaster recovery pair
One hall in Amsterdam and one somewhere else, with the replication link between them costed up front. Sometimes the second site is the only thing you need.
What to check before you sign
Five things to pin down in writing.
We ask these on your behalf before the first quote, so the number you get back is the number you can budget with.
- Which site, which hall
- Get the address and the hall in the offer, not just the operator name. Capacity, cooling, carrier mix and certificates differ per building, and so does the price.
- Power ceiling per hall
- What the hall delivers per rack today, what the A and B feeds are rated at, and what happens when you want to double it in year two.
- Cross-connects and IX ports
- The monthly per connect, the one-off, and which carriers are in the meet-me room. A cheap rack with a thin carrier list is not cheap.
- Term and exit
- Notice period, what happens at renewal, and what it costs to leave. Ask before you sign; it never gets easier to negotiate later.
- Remote hands SLA
- Response time, what is included, what is billed per quarter hour, and how you raise a P1 at 03:00. Test it once while it still costs you nothing.
Datacenters we send elsewhere
When NorthC is not the answer.
We do not place 1U, half racks or shared racks anywhere, here included. That is a real product and a few parties do it well, so we will name one instead of pretending we compete. If you need the top of the density range or a specific carrier that is not in the building, we will point you at another Amsterdam operator, Digital Realty among them. And if the honest answer is that you should stay where you are for another year, you will hear that too.
Other options in Amsterdam
The rest of the metro, in one place.
Every recommendation we make is a comparison, not a preference. These are the other four pages worth reading before you decide.
Digital Realty Amsterdam
One of the operators we place customers with. Several Amsterdam campuses, a wide power range and a deep carrier mix.
Amsterdam Science Park
The carrier and research campus in Amsterdam-Oost, with AMS-IX and Nikhef next door.
Schiphol-Rijk
Large campuses on the south side of the airport. Where the bigger power blocks usually sit.
Amsterdam-Zuidoost
The southeast business district. Several operators within a few kilometres of each other.
Questions we get
Reseller status, NorthC against Digital Realty, sites.
Are you a NorthC reseller?
No. We are an independent advisor and we work with datacenters such as NorthC and Digital Realty. You contract directly with the datacenter; they pay us a fee. We never add a margin.
NorthC or Digital Realty?
It depends on power per rack, the carriers you need, availability on your timeline and the price the two come back with. We put the same brief to both and compare the answers with you. The questions we ask both are in Digital Realty vs NorthC.
Which NorthC sites are in Amsterdam?
Five in the Amsterdam region: Amsterdam 1 in Sloterdijk, Amsterdam 2 in Zuidoost, Oude Meer by Schiphol, Aalsmeer and Almere. We place into all five. Ask us which halls have space now, because availability moves. Why little new space is being added in Amsterdam and Haarlemmermeer is in Capacity in Amsterdam in 2026.
Do you do a few servers at NorthC?
No. Dedicated racks, cages and suites only. For a handful of servers we will point you at a shared-colocation party that does it properly.
Want NorthC and the alternatives priced side by side?
Give us racks, power per rack, redundancy and timeline. We brief the operators that fit and you compare real numbers.
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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