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A full rack, not a slice
Lockable front and rear, your PDUs or theirs, your cable management. Nobody else’s gear behind your door.
Service · dedicated racks
Rack colocation in Amsterdam: dedicated full racks
One rack or ten, 42U or 47U, with your own keys, your own committed power and your own carriers. We size it, place it and negotiate it; the datacenter invoices you directly.
What you get
A rack contract with nothing shared in it.
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Drawable kW, not the breaker rating
3–10 kW per rack is the normal air-cooled band in Amsterdam halls. We check it against your measured draw, not the nameplate.
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Your own carriers
Cross-connects to transit, AMS-IX and NL-ix ordered inside the building. Your IP space, your ASN, your BGP.
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A contract you can read
Committed kW, metered overage, term, indexation, remote-hands rates. We tell you which of those lines move.
Specs that matter
What is in a rack contract.
A rack quote is six lines long. These are the six, and the order in which they decide the price.
- Rack size
- 42U or 47U, 600 or 800 mm wide, 1070–1200 mm deep. Halls differ; 47U is not offered everywhere.
- Power per rack
- 3–10 kW air-cooled is the usual band. Above that you are choosing a high-density hall, not a rack.
- Feeds
- A+B on separate paths, single or three phase. You commit kW; the fuse rating is not the commit.
- Connectivity
- Cross-connects in the meet-me room, AMS-IX and NL-ix ports, dark fibre to Nikhef if a carrier is elsewhere.
- Access
- 24/7 badge access, your own rack keys, escorted visitors on request.
- Remote hands
- Per incident or a monthly bundle: reboots, swaps, eyes on a blinking light. Rates are negotiable.
How we place it
Four steps, from rack count to keys.
- 01Tell us what you needHow many racks, kW per rack, A+B, which carriers, and when you need to be live.
- 02We engineer and negotiateWe check your draw against the hall’s ceiling, then push the rack fee and the kW rate.
- 03We fast-track the introductionThe account manager gets your rack count and power commit up front, not on call three.
- 04You contract with the datacenterRacks, badges, portal and SLA in your name. We help plan move-in day.
Who we’ll send elsewhere
No 1U, no half racks, no shared racks.
If you run five servers, a shared rack with bundled transit and one invoice is cheaper and simpler than anything we can arrange, and some parties do it well, so we will point you at one. Our end starts at a dedicated rack with your own power commit and your own carriers, because that is where the engineering and the negotiation are worth anything.
Questions we get
Rack count, 42U against 47U, own racks, power model.
How many racks do I need?
Usually fewer than the request says. We work it out from your measured kW draw and U count, and sometimes the answer is to consolidate into one denser rack and pay for power instead of floor space.
42U or 47U?
A 47U rack buys five more units on the same floor tile, if the hall’s ceiling height and your cable management allow it. Not every hall offers it, so we ask before the quote.
Can I bring my own racks?
In a cage or suite, usually yes. In a shared hall you normally take the datacenter’s rack, because the containment and the tile layout are theirs.
What if I outgrow the rack?
Reserve the adjacent position at signature. Amsterdam caps new datacenter build, so contiguous space is worth holding; past three or four racks a cage is the cheaper shape.
Is power committed or metered?
Normally a committed kW per rack with metered overage. The commit drives the price, so we size it on real draw rather than on the sum of the power supplies.
Related
Where to go next.
Colocation in Amsterdam
The overview: racks, cages, suites and how we place them.
Cages and suites
From four racks up, when a cage beats more single racks.
AMS-IX colocation and cross-connects
Ports, cross-connects and what they cost.
Colocation pricing
Rack fee, kW commit, one-offs, and where the room is.
Negotiating a rack in Amsterdam
The price build-up, written for a peer.
Colocation vs cloud
When a hosting company saves by owning the metal, with a worked example.
Digital Realty Amsterdam
Campuses and halls, and which suits a rack footprint.
Send the rack count and the kW.
Two numbers and a date are enough to start. You get a sanity check within one business day and a negotiated rack quote from the datacenter after that.
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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