Equinix: Amsterdam Science Park Campus

Equinix's Science Park campus sits on the east side of Amsterdam Science Park in Watergraafsmeer, beside the University of Amsterdam's science faculty. Science Park is one of the Netherlands' densest interconnection points.

Land and ownership

Equinix built and owns both buildings. They stand on two cadastral parcels of about 1.7 ha (Watergraafsmeer B 5131 and B 5173) that Equinix holds on a long-term ground lease. Benthem Crouwel Architects designed both buildings. UDD, a partnership of Unica Fastcom and Dura Vermeer, built the AM4 tower, which rises about 72 m over 12 storeys.

Power and cooling

• Liander supplies the campus at 10 kV from the adjacent 150 kV Science Park substation. AM4 takes six 10 kV feeds, three on each of its A and B sides, each rated 10 MVA.
• Diesel standby plant: 10 x 3,250 kVA generators (N+1) in AM3 and 11 x 3,250 kVA generators (N+2) under the AM4 tower, with 30+ hours of fuel autonomy at full load.
• Cooling uses aquifer thermal energy storage (ATES) wells with hybrid dry coolers and water-cooled chillers on free cooling. Waste heat warms neighbouring Science Park buildings, and AM3 carries a rooftop solar array of about 30 kWp.
• In January 2025 Equinix and the Municipality of Diemen signed a letter of intent to study feeding AM4's residual heat into a Diemen district heating network.

Interconnection and tenants

The campus hosts the Equinix Internet Exchange and gives access to AMS-IX and NL-ix. Campus Cross Connects link the two buildings. LightEdge and Contegix resell colocation space inside AM3.

Certifications and milestones

ISO 9001, 14001, 22301, 27001, 45001 and 50001; PCI DSS; SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II; NEN 7510; Cyber Essentials; LEED. AM3 won the DatacenterDynamics Green Data Center EMEA award in 2012.