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Operational
Fully operational facility
Operated by:
Lumen Amsterdam (Johan Huizingalaan)
Year Built:
2009
Facility Specifications
- Modern data centre facility situated in Amsterdam Slotervaart
- Operational since June 2009
- Total Size: 2,665m²
- Available fully fitted space: 502m²
- Maximum site power: 2.5 MVA
- Carrier connectivity: diverse connections to the Global Switch Meet Me Rooms
Power
- Dual redundant 2.5MVA, HV dedicated 10v ring feeds to 2 x dedicated redundant 2.5MVA transformer and LV distribution boards
Generators
- Modern data centre facility situated in Amstedam
- N+1 Generator plant landlord provided at the 10kV feeds
- Automatic start, feed to 100% of the facility
- Fuel storage for 72 hours continuous operation at 100% load
- 24 x 7 agreement with local fuel supplier UPS
- 3 x 275kVA
UPS modules providing 550kVA total output with N+1 redundancy
- 15 minute battery autonomy per UPS module
- Diverse underfloor power track distribution system
Environment
- 1kW/ m² average cooling capability over the gross space
- Temperature regulated between 18°C and 27°C (at 2m height in the cold aisle containment)
- Humidity regulated overall to 50%RH +/- 20% Physical
- Minimum floor to ceiling height: 3,150mm from top of raised floor
- 750mm raised floor height
- Raised floor loading 7.3kN/m² (pointload)
- Structural floor slab 12.5kN/m²
Map and Nearby Locations:
Johan Huizingalaan 759
Lumen Technologies Sites
Nearby Facilities
Sites within 15 miles of Lumen Amsterdam (Johan Huizingalaan)
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.00 miles | Global Switch: Amsterdam West |
Global Switch Amsterdam is located in the Slotevaart/Overtoomseveld district, adjacent to the main Dutch cable infrastructure. The site is 2km from the financial district and city center.
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| 0.16 miles | Global Switch: Amsterdam East |
Located adjacent to Global Switch's existing Amsterdam West data center, Amsterdam East expands the campus by offering 32,000 sq m of space with technical suites to accommodate high-performance computing needs.
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| 0.68 miles | AtlasEdge: Amsterdam | |
| 1.86 miles | CapitaLand: Cateringweg |
CapitaLand acquired the former NAP of Amsterdam in 2021. It was a former Terremark site.
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| 2.50 miles | Cellnex: Amsterdam |
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| 3.49 miles | NorthC: Amsterdam |
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| 3.66 miles | Capitaland: Gyroscoopweg |
Gyroscoopweg is a triple net powered shell data centre comprising two separate three-storey buildings of brick construction with metal cladding on the upper floors.
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| 3.66 miles | Equinix Amsterdam AM8 | |
| 3.70 miles | SilverFalcon Westpoort |
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| 3.75 miles | Databarn Amsterdam | |
| 3.82 miles | NorthC: Oude Meer |
The site was formerly operated by KPN
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| 3.82 miles | House of Data: Amsterdam |
New Dutch operator House of Data plans to build a data center in Amsterdam.
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| 3.87 miles | CapitaLand: Paul van Vlissingenstraat |
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT acquired this site in 2021.
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| 3.90 miles | euNetworks Amsterdam | |
| 3.95 miles | nLighten: AMS1 |
nLighten, the new regional edge data center firm from I Squared Capital, has entered the Netherlands market by acquiring a data center in Amsterdam.
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| 3.95 miles | PCextreme Gyro Center | |
| 3.99 miles | ServerFarm: Amsterdam AMS1 |
In 2019, Serverfarm extended its portfolio with a strategic data center acquisition in Amsterdam.
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| 4.00 miles | Capgemini Amsterdam | |
| 4.13 miles | Switch Datacenters: Amsterdam 7 |
Switch Datacenters AMS7, along with AMS5 and AMS7, forms a triangle of new, power-dense developments. It is uniquely located in the Schiphol area.
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| 4.25 miles | AtlasEdge: Amsterdam Van der Madeweg |
AtlasEdge Amsterdam South East Data Centre is a carrier neutral data centre that offers 742 sqm of colocation capacity.
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| 4.39 miles | Digital Realty: AMS18 (Amstel Business Park) |
Digiltal Realty's Amstel Business Park data centre in Amsterdam provides 2,700m² of floor space.
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| 4.40 miles | Lumen Amsterdam (Joop Geesinkweg) |
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| 4.51 miles | Equinix Amsterdam AM6 | |
| 4.80 miles | Digital Realty: AMS3 |
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| 4.80 miles | Internap AMS Cessnalaan 1-33 | |
| 4.83 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS07 |
In August 2022, EdgeConneX acquired an additional plot of land in Schiphol and planned to build the AMS07 facility.
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| 4.84 miles | Digital Realty: AMS6 | |
| 4.86 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS05 |
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| 4.88 miles | GTT Amsterdam (Schiphol Rijk) |
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| 4.88 miles | maincubes AMS01 |
Total IT area 4,400 sqm over rooms of various sizes (170sqm to 1,100 sqm)
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| 4.89 miles | Digital Realty: AMS11 |
Digital realty is building another data center at Schiphol-Rijk Campus. The data center will be built in two phases.
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| 4.92 miles | EdgeConnex Amsterdam |
EdgeConneX's Amsterdam Campus is located in Schiphol-Rijk. The campus features both multi-tenant colocation and single-tenant facilities with over 34,000 sqm of total space.
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| 4.92 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS02 |
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| 4.94 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS03 |
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| 4.97 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS09 |
EdgeConnex is Building another data center in it's Schiphol-Rijk campus in Amsterdam.
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| 5.05 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS04 |
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| 5.09 miles | Switch Datacenters: AMS3 |
Switch's AMS3 site, located in the Amsterdam South East business district, was a logistics building converted into a data center in 2017.
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| 5.10 miles | Digital Realty: AMS7 |
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| 5.10 miles | Datacenter.com AMS1 | |
| 5.23 miles | NIKHEF Science Park 105 | |
| 5.26 miles | Digital Realty: AMS17 |
The 11 story, 72m-tall building has 5,000 sq m (54,000 sq ft) of data space on 13 floors, and 9MW of power. The building uses outside air and groundwater for cooling, and also stores warm water underground.
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| 5.30 miles | Digital Realty: AMS9 |
In February 2017, the site was acquired from Vancis Holding BV. Source: Interxion Press Release
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| 5.41 miles | nLighten: Amsterdam |
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| 5.41 miles | Equinix Amsterdam AM7 | |
| 5.42 miles | Digital Realty: AMS5 |
Redundant 20 MVA 100% green supply, enabling high-density power confi gurations up to 25 kW/rack
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| 5.42 miles | INAP AMS Tupolevlaan 101 | |
| 5.42 miles | Keppel Amsterdam | |
| 5.43 miles | Equinix AM11 |
AM11 was acquired from Switch Datacenters in April 2019.
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| 5.46 miles | NTT: AMS1 (C&D) |
NTT's Amsterdam 1 Data Center is expanding, with Buildings C and D adding an additional 9,720m² of IT space.
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| 5.46 miles | NTT Amsterdam 1 |
The facility near the Schiphol airport will be built in four phases, each delivering 4,000 square meters (43,055 sq ft) of technical space. It will offer both wholesale and retail colocation services.
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| 5.49 miles | Cogent Halfweg | |
| 5.53 miles | IPTP Networks Matrix 4 - Science Park 404 | |
| 5.53 miles | CloudHQ: Amsterdam AMS |
Situated just south of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport in the Schiphol-Rijk area, next to another hyperscale data center, CloudHQ’s AMS campus will consist of a single multi-story data center.
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| 5.59 miles | EdgeConnex: AMS06 |
EdgeConneX EDCAMS06 data center is located in Schiphol-Rijk, Amsterdam. In August 2022, EdgeConneX began construction on its 6th data center in Schiphol, and in 2024 it came online.
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| 5.61 miles | Lightedge: Amsterdam |
LightEdge’s "Amsterdam Data Center" is essentially a white-label or resold solution physically located within an Equinix facility.
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| 5.63 miles | Contegix Amsterdam | |
| 5.63 miles | Equinix Amsterdam AM3 Science Park |
Equinix's Amsterdam AM3 data center was opened in October 2012.
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| 5.66 miles | Equinix Amsterdam AM4 |
In 2017, Equinix opened AM4, an eight story datacenter constructed next to AM3 in Science Park.
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| 5.67 miles | Rackspace: Amsterdam AMS2 |
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| 5.67 miles | Equinix AM2 | |
| 5.71 miles | QuadraNet Amsterdam |
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| 5.71 miles | INAP AMS Luttenbergweg 4 | |
| 5.71 miles | Equinix AM1 | |
| 5.72 miles | Goodman: Amsterdam |
The Goodman Group intends to develop a two-building data center campus in Amsterdam.
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| 5.79 miles | Goodman: AMS1 Bldg-B |
This planned facility is part of Goodman Group's Amsterdam data center campus.
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| 5.80 miles | Schuberg Philis |
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| 5.94 miles | Digital Realty: AMS8 |
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| 6.03 miles | CyrusOne: AMS1 Bldg 2 |
CyrusOne's AMS1 offers 29,720 sqm (320,000 sq ft) of technical space across a campus of two separate buildings. The campus is located on SADC’s PolanenPark campus, around 15 kilometers west of central Amsterdam.
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| 6.03 miles | Equinix Amsterdam AM5 |
The site was previously known as "Telecity AMS 5"
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| 6.04 miles | NorthC: Amsterdam 2 |
The NorthC Amsterdam 2 data center was added to the NorthC portfolio following its acquisition from Colt Technology Services in late 2025.
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| 6.07 miles | CyrusOne Amsterdam I |
CyrusOne's AMS1 offers 29,720 sqm (320,000 sq ft) of technical space across a campus of two separate buildings. The campus is located on SADC’s PolanenPark campus, around 15 kilometers west of central Amsterdam.
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| 6.13 miles | KPN Amsterdam | |
| 6.16 miles | Switch Datacenters: AMS4 |
Dutch colo provider Switch Datacenters has launched its fourth Amsterdam data center. The AMS4 facility was built on a former logistics site at the Amsterdam Science Park in the Oost district of the city.
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| 6.28 miles | NorthC: Aalsmeer |
The Aalsmeer data center is part of a unique project for the exchange of residual heat.
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| 6.66 miles | Switch Datacenters: AMS6 |
The AMS6 site is currently being retrofitted from a logistics hall into a high-end, AI/HPC-ready data center.
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| 7.35 miles | Digital Realty: AMS16 |
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| 7.37 miles | Cellnex: Haarlem |
The telecom & data tower in the Waarderpolder has been in use since 1972.
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| 7.39 miles | Penta Infra: Haarlem |
The facility, previously owned by KPN for its hosting and data center services, was acquired by European firm Penta Infra in 2023.
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| 7.40 miles | KPN Haarlem | |
| 7.40 miles | Digital Realty: Amsterdam AMS15 |
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| 7.62 miles | Iron Mountain Amsterdam AMS-1 |
Originally built by EvoSwitch, Iron Mountain's AMS-1 campus is one of the largest carbon-neutral multitenant data centers in the Netherlands. Purpose-built from concrete and steel, the site has containerized modular suites to support a PUE of 1.2.
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| 7.62 miles | PhoenixNAP Amsterdam | |
| 8.26 miles | Iron Mountain: AMS-2 |
Iron Mountain has been associated with a new data center project in North Holland, Netherlands, constructed by the Dutch company Heijmans.
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| 10.52 miles | DataOne: Amsterdam 1 |
The DataOne data center, located at Bruynvisweg 11, Wormer, Amsterdam, Netherlands, was established in 2011 and is operated by DataOne BV.
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| 10.72 miles | Cellnex: Wormer |
Acquired by Cellnex in 2007, this telecom and data tower was among the first five radio masts to be upgraded with a datacenter,
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| 14.94 miles | UNET Almere | |
| 15.82 miles | Cellnex: Hilversum |
The first radio mast for television (Nederland 1) was erected in Hilversum in 1951. This was later replaced in 1973 by a new mast on the Witte Kruislaan.
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| 16.04 miles | Cellnex: Media Gateway Hilversum |
In 2021, Cellnex acquired Red Bee Media’s Media Gateway data center in Hilversum in the Netherlands.
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| 16.24 miles | Cellnex: Alphen aan den Rijn |
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| 16.30 miles | TCN Hilversum |
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| 18.27 miles | Switch Datacenters AMS2 (Woerden) |
Switch Datacenters Amsterdam 2 (AMS2) is a premium colocation datacenter located in the municipality of Woerden.
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| 18.61 miles | Keppel Almere Netherlands |
Almere Data Centre is a three-storey facility built in 2008. NorthC is located in the building.
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| 18.62 miles | NorthC Almere |
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| 19.62 miles | Datacenter Noord-Holland |
Datacenter Noord-Holland is located in Alkmaar and operates according to the TIER-3 standard.
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Operating Company
Operated by:
The combined company of CenturyLink and Level(3) has one of the largest networks in the world.
The combined company of CenturyLink and Level 3 is a patchwork of data centers that span over Europe, North America, and Latin America. The data centers came through acquisitions that include Global Crossing (2011) and TW Telecom (2014).
A Timeline of Level 3 Acquisitions
- 2020: CenturyLink rebrands as Lumen Technologies
- 2017: CenturyLink acquired Level 3's data centers and network for $34 billion
- 2015: Black Lotus (for Level3's DDoS mitigation product)
- 2014 Level 3 acquired TW Telecom for $5.7 billion
- 2012 Level 3 acquired Voxility
- 2011 Level 3 acquired Global Crossing (GX) for $2.0 Billion
- 2007: Level(3) acquired Broadwing for $1.4 billion
- 2006: Level(3) acquired Progress Telecom for $137 million
- 2006: Level3 acquired Looking Glass Networks for $96 million
- 2006: Level3 acquired Telcove (Adelphia Business Solutions) for $1.2 billion
- 2006: Level3 acquired ICG Communications for $163 million
- 2005: Level 3 acquired WilTel for $680 million
- 2002: Level3 acquired Genuity for $242 million
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