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A cage or a suite
Enough racks that you want your own perimeter, your own aisle containment and a floor plan you control. Space here is easier to find than inside the ring.
Datacenters we work with
Schiphol-Rijk: colocation on Amsterdam's large campuses
Schiphol-Rijk is the business park south of the airport where the bigger Amsterdam datacenter campuses sit. We are an independent advisor, not an operator: the datacenter pays us a fee, you contract directly with them, and we will tell you when a different area fits you better.
Location
The Digital Realty buildings in Schiphol-Rijk.
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The campus in numbers
What Schiphol-Rijk is, and what it is good at.
Indicative figures for the area rather than any single building. The power ceiling, cooling design and availability are per hall, and we check the current ones before recommending a site.
- Haarlemmermeer, south of Schiphol
- Schiphol-Rijk is the business park on the south side of Schiphol, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer rather than Amsterdam. Bigger plots, bigger buildings, and room that does not exist inside the city.
- Large campuses, higher power
- The Amsterdam sites with the most floor space and the biggest power blocks tend to sit out here rather than inside the A10. That is the main reason to look at the area.
- 3–70 kW per rack
- The band we usually place. The top of it is generally easier to find on a Schiphol-Rijk campus than inside the city, but it is still a per-hall question.
- AMS-IX · NL-ix
- AMS-IX and NL-ix both have a presence on the Digital Realty campus here, and so do more than ten carriers. A port on either exchange is a cross-connect in the building, not a metro circuit.
- 10 km from Schiphol
- Indicative: about 10 km and 10 minutes by road from Schiphol Plaza, and roughly 25 km (half an hour outside rush hour) from Amsterdam city centre.
- Airport on the doorstep
- Useful when your hands-on staff fly in. Direct flights from most of Europe and a short drive to the halls, which matters on a migration weekend.
Operators here typically hold
ISO 27001 · ISO 9001 · ISO 14001 · SOC 2 · PCI-DSSWhat we'd place here
Three workloads that fit a Schiphol-Rijk campus.
The area rewards scale and growth plans. If you need two racks in the building with the most networks, and nothing else, Science Park usually wins instead.
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High density and GPU
Training or inference racks where the cooling design decides the answer. Ask what the hall was built for before you commit to a kW-per-rack number.
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A multi-year growth plan
You know you will need double the footprint in three years. Contract the expansion right now, while you still have bargaining power.
What to check before you sign
Five things to settle before the contract.
Bigger campuses mean bigger commitments. These are the clauses that decide what this costs you over the term.
- Power ceiling and cooling
- What the hall delivers per rack today, and whether the cooling design supports the density you are planning for year three. Those are two separate answers.
- Expansion rights
- First refusal on the adjacent racks or cage space, in writing, with a term and a rate. On a growth plan this clause is worth more than the rack price. Haarlemmermeer, which includes Schiphol-Rijk, caps datacenter growth until 2030; the figures are in Capacity in Amsterdam in 2026.
- Cross-connects and metro fibre
- The in-building price list, plus what a circuit back to Nikhef or a Science Park site costs per month. Budget for both before you compare areas.
- Term and indexation
- What the annual increase is capped at, and what a longer term buys you. On a large footprint a point of indexation is real money.
- Access and badging
- How long a new engineer takes to get badged, how many people you can list, and how visitor access works out of hours. Airport-adjacent sites can be stricter.
Datacenters we send elsewhere
When Schiphol-Rijk is the wrong area.
If your workload lives or dies on interconnection, Science Park is usually the better answer and we will say so. If you want a handful of racks in the business district with a short drive from the office, look at Amsterdam-Zuidoost.
Other options in Amsterdam
The rest of the metro, in one place.
Three areas, several operators, one honest comparison. These are the other pages worth reading before you shortlist. Which area suits which workload is also in Digital Realty vs NorthC.
Digital Realty Amsterdam
One of the operators we place customers with. Several Amsterdam campuses, a wide power range and a deep carrier mix.
NorthC Amsterdam
A Dutch operator we also work with. Worth a look if a smaller footprint or a regional second site fits you better.
Amsterdam Science Park
The carrier and research campus in Amsterdam-Oost, with AMS-IX and Nikhef next door.
Amsterdam-Zuidoost
The southeast business district. Several operators within a few kilometres of each other.
Questions we get
Price against Science Park, operators, airport, AMS-IX.
Is Schiphol-Rijk cheaper than Science Park?
Usually on space and power, not always on connectivity. If your networks sit at Nikhef or Science Park, the metro circuit back there has a monthly cost that can close the gap. We price both before you decide.
Which operators are in Schiphol-Rijk?
Several, and Digital Realty is one example of an operator with a campus in the area. We are independent of all of them and pick on power ceiling, carriers and availability.
Does the airport matter?
If your engineers fly in, yes. Direct flights from most of Europe and a short drive to the halls makes a migration weekend much less painful. It is a nice-to-have, not a reason on its own.
Can I still reach AMS-IX from here?
Yes. AMS-IX and NL-ix are both on the Digital Realty campus in Schiphol-Rijk, alongside more than ten carriers. We size the ports with you before the quote.
Looking at a Schiphol-Rijk campus?
Send racks, power per rack, redundancy and your three-year plan. We will get you a negotiated number and the expansion clause to go with it.
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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