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Koolhovenlaan 120
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nLighten: Amsterdam

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In April 2024, nLighten acquired the site from Exa Infrastructure.

In May 2018, GTT acquired the Amsterdam site in a $2.3 billion acquisition of Interoute. (TR PR Source)

  • Gross size of data centre: 4500 m²
  • Net size of customer space: 2250 m²
  • Building type: Steel frame warehouse
  • Building tenure: Leasehold
  • Number of data suites: 4
  • Suit expansion available: Yes
  • Max floor loading capacity: 1000 kg/m²
  • Max raise floor height: 400 - 650mm

Compliance:

ISO 27001
ISO 20000
PCI DSS
ISAE 3402 / SSAE 16

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Koolhovenlaan 120
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0.08 miles Keppel Amsterdam
0.10 miles Digital Realty: AMS5
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0.10 miles INAP AMS Tupolevlaan 101
0.39 miles Schuberg Philis
0.40 miles Digital Realty: AMS7
0.46 miles EdgeConnex: AMS09
EdgeConnex is Building another data center in it's Schiphol-Rijk campus in Amsterdam.
0.47 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.
0.52 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.
0.52 miles EdgeConnex: AMS04
0.53 miles Digital Realty: AMS11
Digital realty is building another data center at Schiphol-Rijk Campus. The data center will be built in two phases.
0.54 miles EdgeConnex: AMS02
0.55 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.
0.55 miles EdgeConnex: AMS03
0.58 miles Digital Realty: AMS6
0.60 miles EdgeConnex: AMS05
0.60 miles Digital Realty: AMS8
0.62 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.
0.65 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.
0.71 miles Digital Realty: AMS3
0.71 miles Internap AMS Cessnalaan 1-33
0.71 miles EdgeConnex: AMS07
In August 2022, EdgeConneX acquired an additional plot of land in Schiphol and planned to build the AMS07 facility.
0.74 miles maincubes AMS01
Total IT area 4,400 sqm over rooms of various sizes (170sqm to 1,100 sqm)
0.74 miles GTT Amsterdam (Schiphol Rijk)
1.46 miles Switch Datacenters: AMS6
The AMS6 site is currently being retrofitted from a logistics hall into a high-end, AI/HPC-ready data center.
1.57 miles NorthC: Aalsmeer
The Aalsmeer data center is part of a unique project for the exchange of residual heat.
1.66 miles NorthC: Oude Meer
The site was formerly operated by KPN
1.91 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.
3.35 miles Digital Realty: AMS16
3.44 miles Digital Realty: Amsterdam AMS15
3.55 miles CapitaLand: Cateringweg
CapitaLand acquired the former NAP of Amsterdam in 2021. It was a former Terremark site.
5.41 miles Lumen Amsterdam (Johan Huizingalaan)
5.41 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.
5.53 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.
5.79 miles AtlasEdge: Amsterdam
6.78 miles Cellnex: Amsterdam
7.22 miles Goodman: Amsterdam
The Goodman Group intends to develop a two-building data center campus in Amsterdam.
7.23 miles Goodman: AMS1 Bldg-B
This planned facility is part of Goodman Group's Amsterdam data center campus.
7.44 miles Cogent Halfweg
7.51 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.
7.51 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.
7.83 miles CapitaLand: Paul van Vlissingenstraat
CapitaLand Ascendas REIT acquired this site in 2021.
7.84 miles euNetworks Amsterdam
7.86 miles Equinix Amsterdam AM7
7.86 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.
7.87 miles Datacenter.com AMS1
7.92 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.
7.93 miles Equinix AM11
AM11 was acquired from Switch Datacenters in April 2019.
8.02 miles Rackspace: Amsterdam AMS2
8.02 miles Equinix AM2
8.03 miles INAP AMS Luttenbergweg 4
8.03 miles QuadraNet Amsterdam
8.04 miles Equinix AM1
8.07 miles Equinix Amsterdam AM5
The site was previously known as "Telecity AMS 5"
8.22 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.
8.30 miles SilverFalcon Westpoort
8.34 miles Cellnex: Haarlem
The telecom & data tower in the Waarderpolder has been in use since 1972.
8.35 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.
8.35 miles Lumen Amsterdam (Joop Geesinkweg)
8.36 miles KPN Haarlem
8.41 miles Digital Realty: AMS18 (Amstel Business Park)
Digiltal Realty's Amstel Business Park data centre in Amsterdam provides 2,700m² of floor space.
8.53 miles KPN Amsterdam
8.54 miles Equinix Amsterdam AM6
8.60 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.
8.61 miles PhoenixNAP Amsterdam
8.76 miles NorthC: Amsterdam
8.77 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.
8.81 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.
8.81 miles Equinix Amsterdam AM8
9.02 miles Databarn Amsterdam
9.12 miles House of Data: Amsterdam
New Dutch operator House of Data plans to build a data center in Amsterdam.
9.13 miles PCextreme Gyro Center
9.13 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.
9.37 miles ServerFarm: Amsterdam AMS1
In 2019, Serverfarm extended its portfolio with a strategic data center acquisition in Amsterdam.
9.39 miles Capgemini Amsterdam
9.79 miles NIKHEF Science Park 105
9.82 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.
9.86 miles Digital Realty: AMS9
In February 2017, the site was acquired from Vancis Holding BV. Source: Interxion Press Release
9.87 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.
10.06 miles IPTP Networks Matrix 4 - Science Park 404
10.07 miles Lightedge: Amsterdam
LightEdge’s "Amsterdam Data Center" is essentially a white-label or resold solution physically located within an Equinix facility.
10.10 miles Contegix Amsterdam
10.10 miles Equinix Amsterdam AM3 Science Park
Equinix's Amsterdam AM3 data center was opened in October 2012.
10.12 miles Equinix Amsterdam AM4
In 2017, Equinix opened AM4, an eight story datacenter constructed next to AM3 in Science Park.
10.88 miles Cellnex: Alphen aan den Rijn
14.80 miles Switch Datacenters AMS2 (Woerden)
Switch Datacenters Amsterdam 2 (AMS2) is a premium colocation datacenter located in the municipality of Woerden.
14.99 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.
15.18 miles Cellnex: Wormer
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17.46 miles Cellnex: Hilversum
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17.67 miles Cellnex: Media Gateway Hilversum
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17.87 miles TCN Hilversum
18.61 miles UNET Almere
19.65 miles Eurofiber Utrecht

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nLighten is a digital infrastructure platform owned by I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investor. The company is developing innovative edge data centers distributed across European key economic hubs to provide best-in-class network access to regional, national, and global enterprises, private users, and the mobile workforce. Through the strategic distribution of its edge data centers, nLighten is working towards establishing a pan-European presence in all major cities and providing access to low latency and proximity to end users across Europe.
The edge data centers developed by nLighten are designed to meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable data processing and storage, while also being mindful of environmental impact. nLighten was founded in 2021 by a core team with many years of experience and wide-ranging expertise in the data center sector. The team's main motivation was to create the next step for the data center industry and align edge data centers with the green transition.

nLighten's goal is to build and operate the leading pan-European edge data center platform. The company's focus on strategic locations, low latency, and environmental consciousness positions it as an innovative player in the European digital infrastructure landscape.

Expansion and Acquisitions

nLighten has grown rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions:

  • In June 2023, the company acquired Euclyde Data Centers, a French regional platform with six carrier-neutral data centers.
  • In September 2023, nLighten completed the acquisition of Proximity Data Centers, a leading UK edge platform with ten carrier-neutral data centers.
  • The company also acquired 10 carrier data center sites from its sister company Exa Infrastructure.
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